Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria

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Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
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Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
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Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
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Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria
Help a Child: Provide Access to Water in Nigeria

Project Report | Feb 21, 2017
A day in the life of Mairo

By Abubakar Sadiq | Project Coordinator

Mairo and her siblings
Mairo and her siblings

Dear supporters, family and friends of Serendipity,

We want to tell you about Mairo (Not real name), a young girl that lives in  Kudundu Fawa Dango a ward in Ungogo local council in Kano that we recently discovered. A community of 907 (estimated population from last census 2006) with more women household leaders than men. Kudundu Fawa Dango has just one handpump, a stream and three open wells that serves the entire community; every day Mairo and other young girls like her collect water from these open wells because the queue is long at the hand pump collection site thus leaving her and the rest of the family members vulnerable to water borne diseases.

Mairo, due to her rush to finish her chores on time ends up collecting water from these open wells sometimes two to three trips so that she can have time to help her mother with other chores. She is the first from a family of eight as they lost their father at a young age and thus has to help her mother out with tending to house chores and her younger siblings.

Additional hand pump, tube wells with covers will go a long way in the personal and economic developement of the lives of the people of Kudundu Fawa Dango as the children will have time to go to school with other as currently on a average it takes more than 30 minutes which means less water is available for hygiene in such households and diarrhea rates become higher thus an acceleration of provision of access to clean water source and service delivery affordable for the rural poor is key.

A call to action to invest in the provision of clean water sources to support improved sanitation and hygiene practices in Kudundu Fawa Dango ward of Ungogo Local Council of Kano.

Thank you for your continued support and trust in us to make a change in rural communities and making better lives.

Best Regards,

 

Abubakar Sadiq

The stream
The stream

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Location: Kano - Nigeria
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Samirah Faruk
Kano , Kano Nigeria
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