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The Project for Improvement of Access to Safe Water in Lira District and Dokolo District
1. Project Detail
Organisation
All Nations Christian Care
Amount of funding
US $ 62,259
Signatory
Bishop Tom Ibrahim Okello, Executive Director
Name of the project
The Project for Improvement of Access to Safe Water in Lira District and Dokolo District
Location of the project
13 villages in five sub-counties in Lira and Dokolo Districts
Items to be funded
Construction of 13 deep wells and shallow wells
Date of grant signing
21st December 2009
Date of commissioning
9th March 2011
Lira and Dokolo districts were affected by the 21 year armed conflict leaving most of the infrastructure destroyed. Many returnees had no access to safe water and would have to walk long distances (in search of water) since the few sources that existed were destroyed during the insurgency. Lack of access to safe water had put heavy burden on women and children. This project has contributed to increasing access to safe water for over 10,000 former Internally Displaced Persons who are returning to five sub-counties in Lira and Dokolo districts.
2. Handing Over Ceremony
The Deputy Ambassador of Japan to Uganda, Mr. Masaki Shiga attended the handing over ceremony at Enget Village in Abienek Parish, Bata Sub County on 9th March 2011.
Testing of the water flow of a tap stand Speech by Deputy Ambassador
