Mbaidéné Patricia: "I don't leave the classroom to drink water at home".
Having a clean water readily accessible at schools in Chad reduces the burden on children and increases enrollment.
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Mbaidéné Patricia: "I don't leave the classroom to drink water at home".
Having a clean water readily accessible at schools in Chad reduces the burden on children and increases enrollment.
It is past 9:00 a.m. at the Korkoin Community School in the commune of Bebalem in the province of Logone Occidental. As is customary, this is the time when Mbaidéné Patricia, a young girl of barely fifteen years old, usually quenches her thirst. Unlike previous years when she is forced to run home about 800 meters to drink water.
Today, Patricia is happy to walk quietly to the human powered pump installed by World Vision in her school. She asks one of her friends who came out for the same occasion to help her by pumping water. After rinsing her hands with soap, with the hollow of her joined hands she recovers the water and drinks it and quickly goes back to the classroom.
At the end of the class, she explains how the implementation of the human powered pump in her school has changed her life. "It's really a relief for me and for all the children in the school, our teachers and even the people around us," she says. Patricia added: "The drinking water that World Vision has given us is not only used to quench our thirst, but also allows us to attend classes and give our best to the school.
Indeed, the human power pump implemented in four schools in the province of Logone Occidental and in particular in Ngourkosso, Ba-Illi and Bebalem through the Integrated Nutrition project, is a response to the difficulties related to access to drinking water.
For the Director of the school Mbaidéné Patricia atteds, Bekoutou Gilbert "The presence of drinking water in the school has increased the school attendance rate as well as the reduction of water-related diseases in our community".
Even the children do not drop out of school and our students are clean at school. He testifies. According to him, thanks to the presence of this human-powered pump,
"Many parents come to register their children in our school. We thank World Vision for this contribution in drinking water. God bless them and guide them in their missions towards the vulnerable". Concluded the Director.
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Mbaidéné Patricia: "I don't leave the classroom to drink water at home".
Fueled by interethnic clashes, Chad has experienced significant instability since its independence in 1960. The delicate situation for Chad's population is made more precarious by conflicts in neighbouring countries, which drive refugees over its borders. Additionally, the effects of climate change, which are aggravating the desertification and drying up Lake Chad, complicate things further.
Since 2003, the economy became dependent on oil. But, a drop in oil prices in 2014 plunged the country into a deep recession.
All of these issues affect children most. Our teams have been working in Chad since 1985. We work with communities, local actors, the government and the United Nations to improve the well-being of children, through emergency and development programmes.
Quenching thirst for Chad’s Children
Lack of clean water and sanitation facilities affects families, especially those in rural areas where only 38% have access to clean water and only 3% have access sanitation facilities.
We are working to ensure all children have access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation facilities near their homes, schools and health centers.
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Better Hygiene; Better Health
In Chad, children regularly suffer from illnesses, due to a lack of hygiene and sanitation in rural areas. In addition to efforts by World Vision to improve the hygiene and sanitation facilities in their school, the students themselves arrive to make their school clean.
Helping the Vulnerable
The Lake Chad crisis has caused the internal displacement of more than 130,000 people, including more than 10,000 refugees. The majority of these people are women and children. Fleeing abuses by armed groups, these communities found themselves in hostile areas without water, hygiene, sanitation or education facilities. World Vision helps by giving hygiene kits and through the provision of clean drinking water.
Water To Stay in School
The majority of schools in the communities where we serve are located far from children's homes. Children who live several kilometers away from school often do not finish the five-hour school day because of lack of water near their school. . This is a factor in dropping out of school. To help keep children in school, we drill wells in the schools furthest away from homes. Now, children have drinking water in schools and Meecan finish their classes.
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