Support 20 'WASH' Projects in Rural S/East Nigeria

PROJECT REPORT

Name of Organization: Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation.

Project Title/Name: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Imo State, Nigeria.
Focus Country: Nigeria.

Project Locations: Imo State, Nigeria.

Focus Area: Water Sanitation and Health

Project Type: Direct service.

Proponent: Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation

Address Klm 1 Eke-Ahiara Junction, Umuofor Nnarambia
Ahiara, Ahiazu Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria

BRANCH OFFICE: 88 Murtala Muhammed way,
Yaba, Ebute Metta, Lagos.

EMAIL: support@samonyemaechihumanitarian.org
WEBSITE: https://www.samonyemaechihumanitarian.org

Introduction;
Having clean water and sanitation means being able to avoid exposure to countless diseases. Every year, millions of people die from diseases caused by inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene. Growing up in a clean and safe environment is every child’s right. Access to clean water, basic toilets, and good hygiene practices not only keeps children thriving, but also gives them a healthier start in life.

Despite COVID-19 putting the spotlight on the importance of hand hygiene to prevent the spread of disease, three billion people worldwide, including hundreds of millions of school-going children, do not have access to handwashing facilities with soap. People living in rural areas, urban slums, disaster-prone areas and low-income countries are the most vulnerable and the most affected.

Executive Summary
The SOHF target of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to improved drinking water has been met, eight years in advance of the 2030 deadline. This achievement is a testament to the concerted efforts of the many different stakeholders who helped over 100 households gain access to improved drinking water sources since 1990. This is especially good news for children, who are the most affected by poor water supplies. However, more than 10 million people still have not been reached, the majority of them in poor, isolated and otherwise marginalized communities. Other challenges remain: water quality remains a problem, and many of the improved water sources are too far from people’s homes to maximize the health benefits. The news for sanitation is not as good: the world is still not on track to meet the SOHF target. Two and a half million people still do not have improved toilet facilities and 1.1 million continue to defecate in the open, creating a serious health threat, especially for children. Coverage and inequities are even more pronounced for sanitation than for water supply, with persistent coverage disparities across regions, between countries, and within countries. But the sanitation news is not all bad. Twenty-one countries, including several of the world’s most populous nations, have succeeded in increasing coverage rates by more than 20 per cent since 1990. Open \defecation rates are decreasing and there are clear signs that Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS) methodologies are driving the achievement in this trend, notably in sub-Saharan Africa, where coverage rates are low.

Impacts of Climate Change on 'WASH'
Underlying all the world’s water challenges are the looming repercussions of our changing global climate. Climate change introduces a huge amount of uncertainty to water supply reliability in the future. Where people and businesses could once rely on a safe and stable supply of water, there will be perturbation and threats to that supply. We are already seeing increased intensity of water-related natural events like droughts and floods, and this trend is expected to continue. Sustainable Development Goal aims to strengthen resilience and adaptation to climate-related hazards and natural disasters, which the world will increasingly face.

On one side, the number of people at risk from floods is projected to hit 1.6 billion in 2050, with $45 trillion worth of assets at risk. On the other extreme, it is estimated that by 2050, 3.9 billion people will live in river basins under severe water stress. The nature of these impacts will vary by region, changing global water stress dynamics. This increase in extreme conditions and variability present a major challenge to companies. In addition, corporate action on climate is inextricably linked with water. For example, companies report that a quarter of their greenhouse gas reduction activities depend on a reliable water supply.

Organizational Background
Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ started in the year 2012, officially registered September 7, 2017. Joined GlobalGiving community May 29, 2021, with a vision to seek sustainable solutions to have a universal access to basic water and sanitation services as a fundamental human right. We aimed at, before the end of 2030 to achieve universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in household, schools and health facilities in rural communities. Also to create a platform for young people to actively engage them in social issues. In the first 3 months of its operations, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ did a rapid assessment of existing youth program in the region to discover a dearth of serious, structured interventions with young people in the area. The team from ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ visited more than 20 rural communities and several NGO functionaries operating in the area to learn about the involvement of youth and adult in Social initiatives in the area. In these visits, most of the principals, teachers and social workers voiced a need to build leadership among young people on social issues and motivate them to take up social action initiatives. The educators expressed their concerns and difficulties involved in mobilizing young people for social action initiatives.
In the same period, a team from ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ participated in the ‘Change Makers program’ that was conducted jointly by The Nonprofit council with the aim of understanding the current community development initiatives of other NGOs across Nigeria. During this phase the team studied the program design and the community mobilization methods of these NGOs. The team also underwent a one year long mentoring and handholding under this program. In the process, the team also participated in a several learning programs with several NGOs working on community issues from across the nation. In these sessions, the team interacted with more than 12 NGOs and their several community leaders working in different parts of the country.

Equipped with an understanding of local issues and an understanding of the best practices of NGOs from across the country, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ started conducting basic life skill and active citizenship programs in communities in Southeast. The program was named ‘change for life’. These workshops caught the interest of educators and students alike and they welcomed ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ team to conduct repeat workshops on several issues in 15 communities with around 8,367 in attendant. This program also had an indirect outreach of another 4200 people. ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ also initiated a pilot program named ‘Metamorphosis’ that involved families in community outreach program. This program involved around 10,600 farmers from 15 different communities in the area. In the same period, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ conducted two parent counseling workshops in two different communities to discuss the issues of their children. This program titled ‘Parenting and grassroots child-care' helped us put forward our standpoints and increased our acceptance with parents who are the prime decision makers for their children

The success of the initiative inspired us to continue the program with young farmers. Now in its second year of operation, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ has started conducting life skill and active citizenship workshops in 10 additional Communities. This program so far had a direct outreach of 2700 families. Parenting and grassroots child-care has been conducted in two new Communities in the year. Currently, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation is actively working with 23 communities in Southeast working on different issues in different communities.

In order to give a push to these projects, 'Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ has identified the need for:
a) Help the vulnerable improve and maintain a healthy and independent lifestyle and to maximize their quality of life.
b) Starting of 2 Resource Centers in southeast to address the needs of farmers
a) Resource Centers for youth to learn vocational skills.
b) Resource and Empowerment Centers for farmers to equip them with skills in farming.

Vision and Goal
The vision and goal of Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian foundation is to have a universal access to basic water and sanitation services as a fundamental human right. We aimed at, before the end of 2030 to achieve universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in household, schools and health facilities in rural communities. Ensure that water, sanitation and hygiene targets and indicators focus explicitly on reducing inequalities, by targeting poor and disadvantaged people in rural communities in Imo State as a priority, and on improving the sustainability of services to secure lasting benefits.

Core values
Involving people, applying knowledge and making things happen. We take as our Motto “Peace, social justice, diversity, fun and democracy as key values” which guide us.

Organizational Structure
‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ is registered as a Trust with Mr AKARAONYE Samuel Ifeanyi, Engr. Greg Ntiwunka, Mr. Joseph Ehioma and Ms James Rosita Nkeiruka as the Board of Trustees.
The ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ Team is currently led by Chief Augustine Anyanwu and comprises of Mr.Dominic Anyanwu, Agnes Cletus Bassey, Mr. Chigbu Uchenna Ezekiel, Ms Anthonia Chuke etc.

Aims and Objectives
The aim and objectives of Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation is to Improve hygiene behaviors and encouraging effective community management of sanitation and water sources to reduce diseases like diarrheal disease, typhoid, malaria etc.

Target Beneficiaries
The project was implemented in the rural communities in Imo State. In a relatively short time of project implementation, the project has shown significant improvement in terms of its intended outcome. In terms of overall outcome on the percentage of households (HHs) reached before starting the WASH project- half of the beneficiary households (total 72 households surveyed but considered 50 HHs as water support was available to 50 HHs) mentioned that water is available to them within 15 minutes away. About 62% of them were getting water within 30 minutes. 22 households were not at all receiving any water support services from anywhere. In the post project situation, it has improved to be 62% and 92% of households getting water within 15 minutes and 30 minutes fetching time respectively. It was learnt that there are slight variations of time during dry season. During the wet season the average time of fetching is reduced. In the pre-project situation, the beneficiaries used to collect water from long distance sources such as ponds, rivers, ditches and institutional tube wells (mosque, school) which is now no longer required after the project has been commissioned.

The impact of the underlying project on the target population.
After the project intervention, it is clearly that 62% HHs people can now fetch water within 1 to 15 minutes whereas previously only 50% people could do that; thus, fetching time for 12% people has significantly decreased. At the moment 22 HHs interviewed are not getting water services as the project is under implementation phase, however these households have received toilet facilities already. Therefore, while these households will access water from tube well in the later stage, the percentage of people will eventually increase. Majority of the households (72%) reported that enough time have been saved now in getting water from the facilities provided through the project. As a result, they can utilize this saved time for other work including domestic business. This is a good indicator for development of the conditions of the poor people.

Water availability to the beneficiaries before and after the project has been compared. Survey data reveals that before starting the project, 34 (68%) out of 50 project beneficiaries HHs mentioned that they were getting sufficient water; whereas 43 HHs (86%) of the beneficiaries mentioned that now they are getting enough water for their households needs.

*Project Details*

INCOME

s/n DATE DISCRIPTION AMOUNT
1 01/26/2022 FUNDRAISING THROUGH GLOBALGIVING $ 30.25
2 10/31/2021 Miscellaneous Donation $ 4000
3 11/20/2021 IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION $ 1050.80
4 11/24/2021 Miscellaneous Donation. $ 3500
5 12/21/2021 MISCELLANUOUS DONATION $ 450.05
GRAND TOTAL $ 9,031.1

GRAND TOTAL OF INCOME= $9,031.1

EXPENSES

Drilling of Borehole
The costs of site preparation and construction/rehabilitation and Boreholes with Austria Sumo are as follows:

S/N DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PER UNIT COST AMOUNT
1 Drilling of Borehole with Austria Sumo 1 $ 1,563.9. $ 1,563.9
2 Set of 1.5 HP Sumo Austria 1 $ 235.05 $ 235.05
3 1000 Gallon GEEPEE (GP) tank 6 $ 312.5 $ 1,875
Total $ 3673.95

The costs of materials used in the Construction of one GeePee (GP) overhead stand.

4 lengths of 4x8 H beam..................$ 1686.53

1 length of 4¾ x3 H beam……………… $ 213.11

12 lengths of 3x1½ U channel ....... $ 519.23

16 pcs. Of 5feet  bolt and nuts.....$ 103.21

4 pcs of 16 x 16 x 12mm base plate......$ 65.01

48 pcs of 5 x 10 inches’ side cleats ......$ 102.45

16 pcs of angle bracket.........$ 10.23

40 pcs of 2x2 x3mm angle iron ....$ 303.75

4 gallons of red oxide paint ... $ 45.21

3 gallons of bright aluminum paint.....$ 50.16

3 packets of electrode .....$ 25.26

4 pcs of cutting stone.....$ 7.07

320pcs of 19mm bolt and knuts with washer....$ 105.00

14 pcs. Of walk way plate ... $ 435.15

Transportation / loading and offloading... $ 150

LOGISTICS AND LABOUR......$ 550

GRAND TOTAL...$ 4371.37

The costs materials for plumbing work from borehole to the overhead tank

S/N DESCRIPTION QUANTITY COST PER UNIT TOTAL AMOUNT
1 Tank backknuts 6 $ 3.45 $ 20.7
2 Tank Tee (white) tread 1 $ 2.95 $ 2.95
3 Nipple (white) tread 1 $ 1.78 $ 1.78
4 Adapter 12 $ 1.59 $ 19.08
5 Union Connector 11 $ 2.16 $ 23.76
6 Elbow Tigre 40 $ 0.98 $ 39.2
7 Tee Tigre 15 $ 1.73 $ 25.95
8 1x3/4 Tee Tigre 15 $ 1.78 $ 26.7
9 1 x3/4 Elbow Tigre 18 $ 1.78 $ 32.04
10 Ballgage pre blue 7 $ 2.07 $ 14.49
11 ¾ Ballgage Pre blue 6 $ 1.98 $ 11.88
12 ¾ Elbow 20 $ 0.83 $ 16.6
13 Big Tangit Gum 1 $ 38.74 $ 38.74
14 ¾ Socket M/F 5 $ 2.09 $ 10.45
15 Thread Tape 1 $ 3.00 $ 3.00
16 ¾ Thread Tuk 4 $ 14,97 $ 59.88
17 Length of Pipe Nig 35 $ 11.21 $ 392.35
18 Labour $ 250 $ 250
GRAND TOTAL $ 989.55

Grand Total= $ 989.55

$ 3673.95 + $ 4371.37 + $ 989.55= $ 9,034.87

GRAND TOTAL OF INCOME= $ 9,031.1

GRAND TOTAL OF EXPENDITURES = $ 9034.87

DEFICIT= $ -3.77

Sustainability of the Project
The ability of our organization as a whole to survive and to meet our mission goal, we embark on an entrepreneurial venture, as a way of raising money for community, financial and organizational sustainability. The foundation runs a food production, processing and packaging factory. We have been partnering with a company in processing our food items for sales. We are working hard to build our own factory for our organizational sustainability, and to help youth that have vocational skill to acquaint themselves with entrepreneurial skills to be resourceful and useful to themselves and society at large. The procurement of the necessary equipment for production, processing and packaging of organic raw materials(food) and construction of a multi-purpose hall that will accommodate our factory and other activities is our priority, we can achieve this through external sources like grants and long-term funding or through internal sources like income-generating activities or membership fees. And to actualize our mission and goal, we have these points as our guiding principles: Collaborative leadership, member-driven decisions,
effective communication, change-ready and adaptive workforce continuous improvement, on- going evaluation and measurement, sound financial infrastructure.

Difficulties and Challenges
Better water supply, sanitation and hygiene systems are among the sustainable development goals which need to be achieved by 2030. However, it is challenging for developing countries especially sub-Saharan Africa to achieve sustainable sanitation and hygiene. Challenges facing water, sanitation and hygiene in our humanitarian aid are as follows: lack of financial resources, rapid population increase, socioeconomic disparities among the urban inhabitants, topography, lack of skilled, and experienced personnel, inadequate policies and strategies, and people’s behaviours and attitudes were identified as the main constraints to sustainable sanitation and hygiene in our field of work. Moreover, we can achieve sustainable sanitation and hygiene if there are political commitments, an increase of education and awareness on sanitation to the community, and cooperation among the government, non-government organizations, civil societies, and communities in addressing the issues of sanitation. These efforts will lead to enhanced and improved sanitation and hygiene services in rural communities.

Annexes
Annexed below is a sample of this section that has been drawn from the project report of ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ – a non-profit organization that works with young adolescents, youths and adult in rural Communities.

*Overview of the Program:
We at ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ very much value exposure, interaction and peer learning processes. Our recent interactions with more than 20 Communities have reinforced this belief. We are now looking out for support to create 2 youth resource and Empowerment centers in southeast, Nigeria where young, adult etc can come together, co-create learning experiences and contribute positively to the community development. We plan to utilize these resource Empowerment centers as spaces for involving the youth and adult in “self-development” and ‘social action’ projects of various kind.
'Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ has the required experience and expertise to design and run social action campaigns. We feel campaigns are great opportunities to demonstrate leadership skills, highlight social issues, develop deeper understanding about issues and mobilize young people. Campaigns give energy and take care of youth and adult needs such as fun, interaction, novelty etc. We want to organize a campaign each year highlighting youth action.

What we have achieved so far?
‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ is now an accepted name in more than 35 Communities. Our volunteers are personally known to tens of thousands of families in southeast.
As a part of self-development initiative, we have conducted workshops in more than 25 Communities in the last 3 years with a direct outreach of approximately 4000 people in the last 3 years. We have so far organized one major campaign in nearby villages where they went and identified families who were not buoyant enough to Carter for their family’s needs.
Since the beginning ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ has been running out several programs in Communities promoting spirit of volunteerism and celebrating youth led social action. We have organized a major social action project titled ‘Change for life’ in 10 large Communities with an approximate outreach of around 23000 peoples. This project involved collecting and donating used and unused clothes blankets, shoes, food items to the needy.

What we propose?
In this project we propose to undertake the following activities under the aegis of the Resource and Empowerment Center for youth and adult.
Youth Resource and Empowerment Center:
We wish to build 2 new Youth Resource and Empowerment Centers (YREC) in Southeast over a period of next two years – one for the first generation school goers and the second for adult in rural Communities. At the end of the two years we would have been running 2 Youth and adult Resource and Empowerment Centers and the third year would be dedicated to further strengthen and better the functioning of these 2 resource and Empowerment centers.

Awareness Campaign:
We will design and run campaigns involving adolescents young people and adult from rural and urban areas every year starting with the end of year 1. The theme of the campaign will be designed by the adolescents. This will help them to consolidate their learnings and create awareness about social issues.

Conclusion
The project has achieved its goal, removed scarcity of clean water and eased its allied interactions (reducing fetching time, access to clean water, able to reduce sexual harassment of the women and young girls and there is improvement in reducing waterborne diseases). Similarly, it has successfully reduced open defecation practice of the locals, make significant behavioral changes such as hand/cloth washing, bathing and cooking with more attention to personal hygiene. With all these positive indicators it can be concluded that the project has significantly improved the livelihood conditions of the people covered under the project, and has brought more respect and dignity to its beneficiaries. The project taught the beneficiaries to share resources and united them under an institutional framework. However, the project needs to put more attention to the operation, implementation and maintenance of TWs and latrines to give satisfaction to all beneficiaries.