Clean Drinking Water for Five Moroccan Villages
Help save drinking water in Morocco
Summary
This project is bringing safe drinking water and improved sanitation to over 1,600 people in five of Morocco's most remote rural villages, and reducing high infant mortality rates in the process.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Access to potable water is one of the most serious problems affecting communities in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. There is a 19% infant mortality rate in this particular region, which is 4 times the national average, directly linked to unsafe drinking water. Women and girls spend many hours procuring water that is non-potable. This project will reduce infant mortality rates, reduce illnesses among the general population, and improve the lives of women and girls.
Activities
This project will construct piped potable water systems for five villages and at the same time raise institutional capcaities. Gravity flow water systems will deliver drinking water directly from mountain springs to reservoirs above villages.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $21,984
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,016
Total Funding Goal: $25,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
This project will serve 1,600 people. Benefits of this project include reducing infant mortality rates, improving public health conditions, and transfering skills at the grassroots level through using local materials and building techniques.
Project Message
This project will not only save lives and reduce human suffering, but will also empower the beneficiaries because they determined and will mange this initiative.
- Yossef Ben-Meir, President of HAF, RPCV Morocco 1993-1995
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Kate McLetchie
Country Director
Park West Station
PO Box 21081
New York, NY 10025
United States
(646) 688-2946
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
High Atlas Foundation
Park West Station, PO Box 21081
New York,
NY
10025
United States
(646) 688-2946
http://www.highatlasfoundation.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Morocco
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Morocco, read the Human Development Report on Morocco or the Wikipedia entry for Morocco.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 8, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
Ramadan Giving Campaign: Clean Drinking Water for 1,600 People
By Kate McLetchie - Country Director, August 24, 2009 02:16 PM
Thanks to generous supporters like you, we've already raised over $15,000 of the $25,000 project goal! A special gift this Ramadan will help us get that much closer to completing the project.
Please consider making a life changing gift to help 1,600 people in five villages in southern Morocco have access to safe drinking water. Just $15 provides clean drinking water for one person and $150 for an entire family.
From all of us at the High Atlas Foundation, Mabrouk Ramadan!
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