CAR - A BOREHOLE IN THE KOTALI DISTRICT OF BAMBARI

The Chief of the Kotali district, in the Sub-Prefecture of Bambari, almost had lost words to express her joy that day when she saw the water gushing out.

As part of the second phase of this project, the NGO World Vision International has just built one of the ten five boreholes planned in Bambari with the funding from the German Donor Aktion Deutschland Hilft (ADH). Blanche GUIADO, Chief of Kotali neighborhood cannot hide her joy "I am really overwhelmed with joy on behalf of the people in my neighborhood.  I can't believe it, especially when I remember how we suffered to have water".

This MULTI-SECTOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE project will save the people of Kotali from having to travel miles every day and wait long hours to get water. According to Pastor Mathieu GODJIA of the Beta 3 church, whose concession has agreed to host the site of this borehole, the inhabitants of this neighborhood will no longer be subjected to this ordeal. "There are so many people that you have to go to the water point around 4am if you want to find water at 9 or 10am", he says.

The need for water, sanitation and hygiene, in general, and water, in particular, increased the most of all sectors at 12 percent, becoming the top priority for people in Bambari.  Water facilities are no longer functional in Bambari due to vandalism or lack of maintenance, during the period of conflict in the Central African Republic in 2013. In some districts like Kotali, people have never seen a water point close.  "Whoever offers you water has practically offered you a whole life," Pastor Mathieu GODJIA exhorted as a blessing and suggested that the water pumping system should be in the form of a ramp to further limit the waiting time for seeking water.

According to the OCHA HNO 2022 report, 268,328 people are in urgent need of assistance in Ouaka (73% of the population). According to the projected situation from April to August 2022 in the IPC 2022, the sub-prefecture of Bambari and Ippy will be in IPC 4 with 30,538 people in IPC 3 and above