Projects Proposal
for rural safe water suppliy to rural communities in
States of Nigeria and by extension Africa. Incessant
conflicts and brutal wars as bad leadership and large-scale
corruption by African leaders have jointly devastated
and under- developed Africa. These exigencies have led
to the very pitiable state of abject Decade after decade, the best that can be heard about Africa is constant in one country or the other with the attendant increase in the number of deaths, refuges the homeless, increased disease and epidemic and deteriorating standard of living. While majority of the
people in Africa are only managing to eat one meal a
day, their leaders have more than enough. So many people
in Africa today are as they were 20 years ago. This
is because they are obviously deprived by From one country to another in Africa, the people are denied the basic necessities of life – food, shelter, water, good health, clothing, education electricity and economic environment. This pathetic state of things has made life most painful and equally unbearable for the people. Hardly any African country has provision for social security for its people. Shelter is made lightly costly and naffordable for the people. The government does not make provision for that. Social amenities and infrastructural facilities are in constant decay and deterioration with no resolve and determination by the leaders to amend and arrest the situation in order to better the people’s lives. Every person consigns his life to fate. In Nigeria, for instance, the people, particularly those in the rural communities are living in very deplorable and pathetic condition. Suffering and hardship are hardest on them. Their social and economic levels of living are at lowest ebb. Source of live hood and economic empowerment are conspicuously inexistent making their lives meaningless. Rather, worrisome is the seeming government’s lack of knowledge of the difficulties the people are going through. This can be explained through the attendant non-challant attitude towards ameliorating the situation.Provision of safe water to the people is one important area of life where the government’s attention is lacking both in the urban areas in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. No government in Nigeria, past and present has deemed it necessary up till date to have a comprehensive health policy for the people with particular reference to the provision of adequate safe water to the people. Welfare facilities are hardly adequate due to lack of adequate planning and implementation by any government at any given time. For a nation that does not have a social security provision life is bound to be difficult if not unbearable for the particular infants and the old people. The health condition of the people is even worse with the non-provision of adequate safe water. It is highly regrettable that water, a necessity of life is inadequately available to many parts of Africa includes Nigeria. This has brought about high negative consequences in the lives of Africans particularly in the rural communities. The high level of health problem in Africa can toa large extent to be attributed to lack of safe water to the people for their consumption and to their animals in places where animals husbandry is both economic source of revenue and subsistence agriculture. More often than not, there have been outbreak of cholera, and dysentery involving high level of loss if human lives with obviously negative consequences in manpower reduction. Animal often times have been infected by water borne diseases leading to some drop in the protein content of human nutrition in the continent. The often mentioned guinea worm epidemic in part of Africa is as a result of bad water. Many people in African countries including Nigeria are victims of the deadly guinea worm disease in alarming proportion. The final analysis is
that safe water is highly in short supply to the people
of Africa. This exigency has forced the majority of
the people to contend with highly contaminated water
for both consumption and other domestic uses. The In part of Africa, stream and water pools form the sources of water supplies to the people. These water sources can be better handled, improved and treated for human consumption. This has been neglected by the government, thereby eluding the people the right and opportunity to safe water consumption. In addition to the poor nature of the water available, many people walk several kilometers to the water locations. This is because there are no streams near their hamlets/habitations thereby making their situation more difficult and worse. The sad and pathetic situation in the African Society deserves not only an urgent attention but also a genuine commitment to the cause of providing adequate and safe water to the people for their convenience and livelihood. The Africa Safe Water Foundation is borne out of this desire and cause of alleviating the suffering and hardship of the Nigeria people through the provision of adequate and safe water for their consumption and other domestic needs. This we intend to do through the articulation and implementation of proper water scheme and policy for the people as complementary efforts to those of the government and agencies in this regards. We are aware of the obvious
negative consequences of non-availability of safe water
to a people anywhere in the world such as poor health
and disease, poor sanitary conditions of the environment
among others and would We also recognize the provision of safe water as the right of the people to good health and as a matter of necessity and obligation of the government and non-governmental initiatives. Through our implementation policy, we would carry out our objective which includes the provision of safe water to the people of Nigeria, assisting in improving the people’s health condition, improving the environment, dictating through survey areas where safe water is lacking and determination the urgency of need for effective action and educating the people and government on the need for adequate safe water as well as on the dangers of lack of if as it pertains to human health and the health of the environment. As a non-government, non-profit making and humanitarian organization, the Africa Safe Water Foundation (ASWAF) appeals to your kind spirit for assistance in order to help the people particularly the peasant rural dwellers enjoy adequate and safe water in order to enjoy improved health and better environment. Without help from your kind spirit it will be obvious that these rural dwellers will continue to live with this problem world without end. In the spirit of being our brother’s keep and loving our neighbours as ourselves, we owe it as a duty to God and mankind to live in services to our fellow people and through fellowship. We would like to observe
that these people are not the cause predicament. Their
pathetic situation is caused by both nature and human
activities such as bad leadership, bad economic policies,
massive corruption by leaders and These factors have forced them to grapple with suffering and difficult times. They cannot help themselves enough without assistance from everyone who can afford help. The Foundation is borne to assist in helping out to liaise with the government and agencies as well as with corporate bodies and individuals, locally and overseas in seeking for funds to carry out their water project in areas of need to the benefit of the people. We hereby make a humble appeal to you for financial assistance to help us fund (Several) water projects in some rural communities in Nigeria and hope that you would be touched specially to assist us help the less privileged. Help the needy and you will be surely rewarded by the greatest giver in a greater measure. We forward our project to you, for your kind consideration.
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REQUESTED. 16. OTHER SOURCES
OF FUNDING BEING EXPLORED 17. MONITORING AND
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