LadyT:

Love the ideas Ileke-idi can you get Aisha to post here so I can talk to her. I was thinking of doing a video diary or picture diary, so people can see what we are doing and where their money is going.

WOW this is crazy I was just doing research and I have seen other Charity called THE WATER PROJECT but they dont do stuff in Nigeria but WATER AID is in nigeria is this what Aisha is involved in?

I dont think that should stop us though. We can still do something!

LadyT:

Thanks Kcjazz can you email me please at mrscozy@hotmail.com anyone else can send me stuff there as well please.

LadyT:

Someone mentioned some Ekiti villages and I know someone mentioned the north. But to be honest my connections are south based for now so personally I'm looking at east south or south south etc.

Any suggestions? And possible problems with location

LadyT:

Thanks Kcjazz can you email me please at mrscozy@hotmail.com anyone else can send me stuff there as well please.

Also any ideas on how do we approach these villages? I know we cant just turn up and start digging .

I am getting info from Naija too about contractors etc and some estimates should be able to post some things this coming week.

Thanks Aisha as long as the local politicians dont try to pass it off as their Idea but it would be great as they could be our go between with the villages!

I dont actually know about writing a cheque to the hospital reason being patients are asked to always pay for their treatment I personally would like to see that money going towards people getting decent treatment and to prevent unnecessary death. I don't know maybe you guys can enlighten me further? But I do think Sweet T's hospital idea is the easiest and quickest thing we can start with

Abrantie:

Hah? Please elaborate and provide evidence. How is Nigeria able to supply Ghana with electricity?

Ujujoan:

@ Lady T

Nice idea, but then again, you guys abroad know so little. Siting a borehole in all the communities was one of the MDG projects. In my state, most of the communities already have boreholes. But that's a problem on it's own. They are not functioning because of maintenance.

Are you going to install hand pumps or Sumos? Hand pumps are easier to maintain but very difficult to use.

Sumos on the other hand are easy to use but are high maintenance and need elctricity to function. Will you buy generators and make sure they are being maintained?

I always think boreholes are a mistake. Most communities already have water schemes. Why not look into the reticulation of these

If you are going to set up an NGO to provide water, then you should know that boreholes are not the only way to do that! What about areas with terrible formations, where you can't get water by sinking a bore hole? Or getting water will cost you and arm, a leg and an eye

dayokanu:

Kobo,

Most waterworks are run by the govt, So how do you hope to get your funds across

Kobojunkie:

Well, I am not sure. All I know is I have paid for so many wells. Millions, who are not even Nigerians, have done so too. Why is the situation still the way it is, even worse now? As an organization, Nigerians can maybe pool money and resources together, get the state or LGA to allow the org work on rehabilitating the Waterworks at a reduced cost to the state or something. I am not sure. I just know it can be done.

LadyT:


@Ujujoan The whole point of this topic was to get as much info and ideas as possible so thank you for pointing out that those of us aboard know next to nothing thats why I am asking for help.

And thank you for your information thats what is needed please keep it coming. I dont buy the idea of getting generators etc because of maintanace and people will need to buy fuel to run it the idea is to try to make life easier not put them into debt. Can you please highlight for me the problems with the handpump? Apart from the rubber wearing out but isnt there this new pump known as the Fairwater bluepump?

http://www.fairwater.org/

The reticalutions of current water holes I think is a no no unless we are just replacing handpumps since we dont know how the job was done originally I dont see how we can then go in there dig it all up and attempt to fix it or add other water systems/waste water systems we could actually be making it worse and wasting heaps of money.

You also mentioned areas with no water formations I think after doing background research it would be clear whether or not water was available in that particular area so I cant see why we would go to such an area. Or are you saying its very hard to find out if there is watger in a particular area.

LadyT:

Ok lots of food for thought here personally I really dont see a major problem sinking boreholes in places that have never had any. Why should we ignore those areas because such projects have failed in other areas?
But from what is you guys are saying there is a need to repair previously installed ones. How do we do about finding out who installed it previously and how they installed it to avoid costly mistakes? If they dried out, is that because the pump died or the water finished?

LadyT:

Also there was a mention of asking the benefiting community to pay a small fee for the borehole to be repaired/newly installed. Why do you think that would make them maintain the borehole? As a charity how can we justify asking the people we are meant to be helping for money?
I await your responses!
Thanks Guys in order to do this properly even angle has to be looked at