By Mohamed B. Koroma | Project Leader
Alarmingly, up to 30% of all Sierra Leonean schools are managed without running water. Planning, including communication to combat unfavourable climate change effects to water services has been lopsided and disjointed, and so is the implementation of programmes at the community levels. Generally, referencing the AMCOW/WHO/JMP, 57% of the country’s population has access to safe drinking water. Despite serious efforts, Sierra Leone has not been successful in meeting its target to cut by 50% the segment of the population that goes without adequate sanitation and safe drinking water. Women and girls are particularly affected by spending time and energy on water collection on a daily basis.
It is against this backdfrop that AID Sierra Leone continues to use low-cost technologies to providing safe drinking water in rural communities around the country which includes a wide range of low-cost options such as hand-drilled wells, rainwater harvesting systems, etc.
The organization has been engaging these communities in sensitization drive via face-to-face, radio, and TV on the importance of the wells constructed and how they can manage it well to ensure ownership for sustainability.
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