Rural school with 536 children grade 1-13 from poor Tamil families and 32 teachers make use of the new facilities.
Located in tea plantation. Once a week they receive limited water from the plantation.
The principal is really desperate. He made many phone calls to KSLF.
To realize, improved water and sanitation facilities:
Deep tube well drilling,

Rural school with 340 children grade 1-13 from poor families and 36 teachers make use of the new facilities.
We are still in the tea plantation, very poor families who earn a living by picking tea leaves for a low salary. This school is divided into 5 levels in terms of ground height, this makes the pipeline extra complicated/expensive.
The existing pipeline from the mountain source is more than 40 years old; a lot of leakage through broken and rusty pipes.
Daily the oldest schoolboys repair the pipes with old rubber bicycle tires, a never ending job.

Rural community with 60 poor families (300 persons)  and school with 41 children grade 1-5 make use of the new facilities.This community (including school) is located in an isolated area. Their natural source located at 300 m from the community is poisoned by the chemicals of the rice fields. We want to go upstream (1.000 m extra) to a higher source, in this way there is no more pollution from the chemicals. Also their existing pipeline is very old and must be repaired daily. The families have become despondent due to the continuing water problem.
To realize, improved water and sanitation facilities:
Reconstruction existing pipeline, build source well,

Rural school with 125 children grade 1-11 from poor families and 22 teachers make use of the new facilities.
No water at all.
To realize, improved water and sanitation facilities:
Digging and building the well with concrete ring elements,

Rural school with 220 children grade 1-11 from poor families and 22 teachers make use of the new facilities.
School receives limited time water through a small pipeline from the community: once a week only, this is not enough. No water > no toilet cleaning, a nasty situation, especially for the growing girls.
To realize, improved water and sanitation facilities:
5.000 lt. stock tank, pump house with control panel and electrical pump,

Rural school & community with 80 children grade 1-5 and 40 poor families make use of the new facilities.
We visit this isolated place together with Father Malin.
These families are working in the tea estates and their daily income is very low.
They receive the water from a natural source at 1.350 m on the other side of the valley.
It is an very old iron pipeline, 40 years old and because of the rust, the pipe is clogged and broken at many places. Dailey they have to repair the pipe with an old rubber inner tube.
The water is also contaminated by the damaged pipes.

Rural school with 265 children grade 1-13 from poor families and 12 teachers make use of the new facilities.
School receives limited time water through a small pipeline from the community: once a week only!
No water > no toilet cleaning, a nasty situation, especially for the growing girls. At 350 m from the school the parents recently started digging a well. The well is not yet at depth. It is a dangerous work and they do not know how to proceed.
To realize, improved water and sanitation facilities:
Digging and building the well with concrete

Rural school with 115 children grade 1-5 from poor families and 12 teachers make use of the new facilities.
During the rainy season school gets some water from neighbours, in the most dry season school has no water: no toilet cleaning!
To realize, improved water and sanitation facilities:
There is a ditch at 300 m from the school, building a well in this ditch with concrete ring elements,

Rural community 30 families and school with 60 children grade 1-5 from poor families make use of the new facilities.
This isolated community and school are situated in the tea area.
A natural source is located at 350 m from the school. Not a proper source well system. Many days no water.
To realize, improved water and sanitation facilities:
Build source well, well cover, source water by gravity through pvc pipeline from source

Rural school with totally 174 children grade 1-5 from poor families and 6 teachers make use of the new facilities.
We are still in the tea plantations, very poor families who earn a living by picking tea leaves for a low salary.
The existing pipeline from the mountain source is more than 20 years old; a lot of leakage through broken decayed pipes. Daily the teachers repair the pipes with rubber bicycle