Ochan Self-Help Alliance

A lot! Yet a lot more can be done, thanks to your generous donations of 2009. Stay tuned for forthcoming progress reports that depict Ochan’s concerted self-help activities, some achievements, and obstacles in the multiple arenas of our partnership with the people of Opac:  improvements in community sanitation, service delivery in health care, and results of 2009 sunflower/trees program with Ocan Women’s Resettlement Group who heroically battled drought in order to realize some gains in their livelihood. You will read of their success, heartbreaking setbacks, and our big plans to support them again this year.

Here’s a quick view of just one impact of your gifts which allowed a major step forward for the clinic:  a 2,000 liter capacity rain tank for $831.00.  The clinic has no running water so attaching a gutter to the roof and a pipe into a collecting tank with spigots to use is an unprecedented step forward in helping the clinic to deliver better health care.  Before this, staff were riding bicycles to a distant bore hole to fill jerry cans with water or sending young boys to  fill and carry the water on their heads.

A roof gutter collects rain water into a 2,000 liter reservoir tank for use in the clinic.