Maintenance – Akumalam water supply
Oct 9th, 2011 by Anye Chifen
Most of us have never really been thirsty. We’ve never had to leave our houses and walk 5 km to fetch water. We simply turn on the tap, and water comes out. Clean. Yet there are a billion people on the planet who don’t have clean water. ”
In 2009, we provided the Akumalam community and school with drinking water supplies. During our visit in April 2011, we realised maintenance for this project is highly required, i.e. repairs of the water supplies.
Target: Mechanical stabilisation of the well walls, replace the manual pump with an electrical pump.
The power supply (electricity) will be provided by the local community. The total cost estimate was provided by the local technician upon our visit in March 2011.
The maintenance for the Akumalam water supply was approved in August 2011. The funds for this repairs was provided by Leybold Optics GmbH, Alzenau.
Plan:
- Down payment – 40% (August 2011)
- Supply of materials required (August 2011)
- Maintenance work (September 2011)
- Final assessment by Mr. Henry/ Mr. Ngufor (September 2011)
- Second payment – 50 % (October)
- Delivery of pictures to Dorfschulprojekt – October 2011
- Final payment – 10 % (upon delivery of pictures)
Cost estimate (Akumalam water supply)
1) Electric water pump 425,000 fcfa
2) 1 trip of Sand 60,000 fcfa
3) 18 bags of cement at 5,500fcfa each 99,000 fcfa
4) Aggregate 20 wheel barrows at 4000fcfa each 80,000 fcfa
5) Labour (digging of well) 150,000 fcfa
6) Labour (moulding of 8 rings) 25,000 fcfa
7) Electric cables and connetions 12,000 fcfa
Total 851,000 fcfa
This task is supervised by Kai
