This project will build decent toilets, a septic tank, a well and a water tower for the Teahplay School for 300 underserved and at-risk children and youths in Teahplay, Liberia, West Africa who are affected by poverty and civil wars. Students and teachers currently use pit (hole in the ground) or bushes as a place for toilet. These unsanitary conditions cause diarrhea and pose danger of children falling into the pit. They also do not have adequate water.
According to UNICEF, Liberia is significantly behind most other African countries in nearly all education statistics. The 300 students and their teachers at the Teahplay School are using a pit toilet or the bushes to urinate and defecate. There is also no water on the school premises so the citizens carry water in buckets to the school for drinking and washing hands. They often do not have adequate clean water.
This project will significantly improve sanitary care for the students and teachers: prevent disease, reduce the incidents of diarrhea, typhoid fever, and eradicate the danger of children falling into the holes used for pit toilets. Children and teachers can use the new modern toilets with dignity and have clean water to drink and wash their hands.
This project will reduce incidents of diarrhea, typhoid fever among the 300 students and teachers, caused by contaminated water, lack of water and poor sanitation at the school. This will improve their general health and well-being, increase school attendance, and graduation rates.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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