Touch Tanzania
tOUCH TANZANIA
90% of all the diseases in tropical Africa are water-borne, inflicting heavy casualty among children, elderly, and women. In certain parts of rural Tanzania, it is estimated that women and children spend over half their daily hours in search for water. That is why Touch Tanzania is launching a country-wide effort to help communities’ access safe and clean drinking water.
The World Bank has developed a special grant that will underwrite up to 90% of the total cost to drill a well. To qualify for this grant a village must fulfill certain conditions, including a commitment to ownership, and to sustaining the project once it has been completed. A borehole well with the depth of between 70-100 meters costs $100,000. Expensive, but life giving! Each well can sustain a community of 15,000 families.
The goal of Touch Tanzania is to help individual villages raise $5,000 and to locate donors, like Stand For Africa for additional support.
Stand For Africa gave $5,000 to drill a well at Ngimu Village, in the Singida District. The community of Ngimu is estimated to have a catchment area of 22,000 people.
