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International Midwife Assistance (IMA)

IMA offers general medical care, prenatal, vaccination, family planning services and a birth center, to help the poorest of the poor in the Teso region of Uganda.

IMA midwives train local practitioners provide quality prenatal and birth services, as well as general medical care, to increasing numbers of women and children from surrounding poor communities. Through these services, women receive the assistance they need to help ensure safe, healthy pregnancies. The clinic staff also conducts weekly mobile outreach clinics to remote rural areas.

Our birth center allows us to offer special assistance to women during childbirth, increasing the capacity to ensure safe delivery and quick and efficient response to complications during childbirth. Feasible low-cost health interventions are all that is needed to save countless lives of women and babies in Uganda.

For more information, visit
www.midwifeassist.org

International Midwife Assistance and
BoldeReach are 501(c)(3)
non-profit organizations

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Water For People – Update on BoldeReach Proceeds

The funds donated to Water For People by BoldeReach from the June 24, 2006 event exceeded our greatest expectations!  In addition, they helped leverage additional funding for Water For People’s programs in the five countries where we work:   Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala, India and Malawi.  Because the funds were unrestricted, we were able to use them where the need was greatest.  Examples of Water For People projects started since we received the donation of $52,000 in August 2006 are listed below.

Water For People is proud that 82% of all our funds are
directed to our international programs.

Honduras: Laguna Verde Water Systema and Latrines Project

Community Description:
Laguna Verde is located on the upper part of the Cuchilla Alta Mountain and is a community that has been a victim of isolation by the national and local authorities.The total population of the community is about 225.  Forty-six percent of the population works on a farm or rents land for the seeding of farming. The average salary per day is Lps60.00, or approximately $3 per day.

Water Project:
The main focus will be completing an unfinished project started by another NGO.  The older project only included the intake, conduction line and tank.  Therefore the community does not have complete water service yet, due to the fact that the municipality does not have the necessary resources to build the domiciliary network distribution. The community Water Board has agreed to charge a tariff of approximately $1 per month (15-20 Lps)to cover ongoing operations and maintenance costs.

Sanitation Project:
In addition, 35 Hydraulic (pour flush) latrines serving 6 people each will be built. Members from each family will be responsible for the maintenance of the latrines. CRA, the partner NGO, the Municipality of Concepcion del Norte, and Water For People staff are responsible for technical assistance and training in use and maintenance.

Bolivia: Linde Grande and Linde Chico Water System

Community Description:
The community of Linde Grande – Linde Chico is situated in the Municipality of Arani in the department of Cochabamba at an altitude of 2740 – 2800m in the Valle Alto.  There are 351 (190 men and 161 women) people comprised of 52 families in the communities of Linde Grande and Linde Chico.

One year ago, the community was part of a large potable water system from the community of Puka Orko, which was comprised of five neighbouring communities.  Sadly, the volume of water from the well started to decrease to such an extreme that no water arrived to Linde Grande-Linde Chico.  Also, the other communities that were closer to the well used the water for agricultural purposes, which they are not supposed to do per Bolivian law.  This situation frustrated the members of Linde Grande-Linde Chico and for this reason they started to organize and made the decision to build their own potable water system.

Water System:
The subterranean water is plentiful and sufficient to supply the population as well as being a source of safe water.  The quality of the water is good and does not need any special treatment.

The system relies on an electric pump to pump the water from the well to the elevated tank at 18.6 meters.  The elevated tank includes a chlorination system that will disinfect the water before it is distributed by gravity through PVC tubes class fifteen and twelve to all of the homes in Linde Grande-Linde Chico.

Guatemala: Nebaj Sector Four Fontanero Program

Community Description:
Sector 4 is a group of villages located in the northwestern region of the municipality of Nebaj. Nebaj is a municipality in the department (or state) of El Quiche. The temperature is cold, humid with abundant calcareous rocks and high mountain landscape.

Sector 4 is made up of 15 communities. All the inhabitants are indigenous Mayan and their main language is Ixil. About 20% of the population speaks fluent Spanish as well.

The incidence of sickness is high, especially during the rainy season.  Common illnesses include respiratory tract infections, diarrhea, and the common cold. For more serious health problems, villagers visit the hospital in Nebaj, which can range anywhere from 1-3 hours when travelling by car. 

Water System:
Every village has their own water system, but some of the villages are having problems with some of the structures in their system, such as spring boxes and distribution tanks.

After visiting each village in the sector it was found that these villages need assistance in repairing or replacing some of the major structures in their systems.  It was also found that it would greatly beneficial for the villages in the area to have training classes for those who are in charge of taking care of the systems in each village, called fontaneros.

Sanitation:
Most of the people in the area have their own latrines, but there are still a good number of people who still need proper latrines. People who don’t have latrines usually dig a hole in the ground and cover it after using it. Children can use the latrine in the school. This project is design to ensure a latrine facility is available in the school.

India: Dakshin Haradhanpur and Uttar Hardhanpur Rural Aid Water Project

Community Description:
Dakshin  Haradhanpur and Uttar Haradhanpur are villages located in the Sagar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.  The islands are part of the South 24 Parganas District in the state of West Bengal.

About six villages cover approximately 1000 acres and less than half have no access to irrigation facilities. The main source of irrigation is the canal, which is about 2.2 km away from the villages. 

If the water source closest to the house is in working condition, children spend 2-3 hours per day collecting water for household drinking and cooking needs. 

If the water source is not working, the community is forced to depend on nearby ponds as the only source of water and also for sanitation.  As a result, they are highly polluted and contaminated.

The total population of the two villages is 8,000: 4240 males and 3760 females.

Water:
In 2005, Water For People’s partner, Rural Aid, worked with the communities of Sumatinagar, Bankimnagar and Mritunjoynagar to install six tubewells benefiting over 2000 people. 

Phase II of the Rural Aid project is focused on the Dakshin Haradhanpur and Uttar Haradhanpur communities (adjacent to the beneficiary communities of Phase I) where the installation of seven tubewells will provide nearly 2100 rural people with access to safe drinking water sources.  Each tubewell is designed to serve 250-300 people and will be located so that no woman or child is required to travel more then 200 meters to collect drinking water.  By strategically targeting the neighboring communities, Rural Aid and Water For People are working towards the goal of 100% coverage for the people of the Sagar Islands over the next five years. 

The main objective of the project will be to improve the health status of the rural community members in these villages. Thus, in conjunction with the hardware components for the provision of water, special emphasis will also be given on preventive community health techniques such as appropriate hand-washing, protection of drinking water and food from fecal contamination, and sanitary disposal of feces in order to reduce the incidence of diarrheal disease.

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