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The Project for the Improvement of Access to Safe Water in Soroti District
1. Project Detail
Organisation |
Pentecostal Assemblies of God Soroti |
Amount of funding |
US$ 99,140 |
Signatory |
Mr. Edward Etanu Okiror, Chairperson |
Name of the project |
The Project for the Improvement of Access to Safe Water in Soroti District |
Location of the project |
Soroti District |
Items that were funded through this project |
Construction of 12 boreholes and provision of training for maintenance of boreholes |
Date of Grant Signing |
24 February 2014 |
Soroti District in the eastern part of Uganda called Teso, had been socio-economically affected by the regional dispute between 1987 and 1992. The average rate of access to safe water remains low at 58% in Arapai, Gweri, Kamuda and Tubur Sub-Counties where the project will take place, and many people in the community crowd for a borehole. Particularly, women and children bear a heavy burden to collect safe water, and many of them suffer from water borne diseases such as diarrhea and typhoid since they have to fetch unsafe drinking water from a nearby spring. The project will construct 12 boreholes and provide training for maintenance of the boreholes which will increase access to safe water for 17,350 people in 12 villages in Soroti District.
2. Grant Contract Ceremony
H.E. Junzo Fujita, the Ambassador of Japan to Uganda, and Mr. Edward Etanu Okiror, Chairperson, have signed the grant contract on 26th February 2014 at the Embassy of Japan.
Handing over of the Grant Contract Speech by implementing organization
