Help Build Six Latrines For Gami Community Primary School

YOU ARE OUR HOPE

Every Child Matters Foundation started a new fundraising campaign for the construction of six latrines for Gami Community Primary School. As a Certified Charity Organization whose mission is to restore hope among vulnerable children and communities that have been affected by poverty, abuse, violence, disease and other natural calamities. We’re very excited to involve you in our latest fundraising efforts.

With these funds, our organization will be able to build six ventilated pit latrines for the 400 pupils in Gami Community Primary School. To find out more about how we plan to make a difference, click on our fundraising link below:

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In order to meet our fundraising goal, it will truly take a village. Are you able to support this incredible cause? Any amount you can contribute will make a difference—even $5.

Thank you for reading about our latest mission, and please reach out if you’d like to learn more and get involved with our fundraising efforts.

Best Regards.

2. Project background and justification  

Lack of good toilets and hygiene education is a big problem in Gami community. Through this project, it’s expected to expand intervention in support of education by providing better learning conditions for students in this targeted community by installing ventilated pit latrines. Making sanitation accessible is not only critical to saving lives, but also the precious time and money the victims spend in trying to recover from such illness.

Indeed, the Gami village primary school, counts on 400 students and the 3 latrines exiting in this school collapsed which gave to the student and the teachers the only choice. Sometimes students and teachers are forced to defecate in nature. This degrading situation also gives rise to several diseases such as poliomyelitis, Trichomoniasis, etc.   

With this latrine construction project, they aim to go further in the approach to access to education, in good conditions of schooling, especially since the local demand is strong and favorable to the implementation of this project.

3. Project Description

The general objective is to enable students and teachers to have a place of hygiene with an exemplary school toilet block in terms of comfort. The design approach adopted here seeks to provide conducive, congenial block that would enhance the learning process of the students. The specific objectives are essentially to be able to:

• Provide a suitable infrastructure for natural needs for students and students teachers;  Limit microbial infections among students
• To sensitize the populations and the pupils to hygiene and sanitation
• Set up a school health committee
• Enrich the general landscape of the school environment.
• The proposed construction should be an outstanding architectural edifice.

1. Economy of construction: Cost of construction is moderate. Choice and specifications of materials are cost effective.
2. Aesthetics: Pleasing facades, achieved with combination of warm colors will enhance the school landscape.
3. Structural Stability: The cracks on walls and floors are strengthened or replaced where necessary.
4. Walls: A combination of 225mm and 150mm sand Crete hollow block wall, well rendered to receive painting.
5. Windows: All windows shall be of well-made iron window with 2 coats of gloss paint.  Doors: All Doors shall be of Timber panel doors. 2 coats of paint.

1. Finishing (Painting): The finishing of the building shall be a combination of gloss and emulsion paint in accordance with the Architect’s specification and finishes’ schedule.
2. The Roof: The roof shall be long-span aluminium roofing sheets nailed on well treated hardwood truss.

The Latrine that will be installed is called "VIP". It is an improved latrine and broken down by the fact it has ventilation pipes to eliminate odours. It also has a slab that can remove to do the draining. It therefore consists of a pit, slabs, a cabin and a ventilation pipe.  

The latrine to set up includes 6 cabins. This allows to meet the condition of a VIP latrine. The pits operate in an alternative way, that is to say that the 6 pits are not used at the same time. When 3 pits are working (boys, girls and teachers), 3 are closed and await their opening when the first 3 are full.

These full pits are closed for 24 months to allow decomposition. They are then emptied and wait for others to be full. This type of latrine is suitable for the general public as school because we do not need water to make them work, their maintenance is easy. This type of latrine is equipped with a washbasin to allow users to wash their hands before going class.

4. Organizational Profile

ECMF as a humanitarian organization is founded and chaired by Mr. Dounah Bonheur, a young, competent and passionate man with an altruistic personality and a growing, unquenchable zeal to make this world a better place. He has accumulated diverse experience through numerous volunteer efforts and collaboration with a number of organizations to save and empower children and youth, leveraging on education as a tool for social liberation and economic emancipation. Other principal officers include Mr. Ibrahim Hassan Taiye (Principal Admin Officer): a career educator and humanist dedicated to the service of humanity, and Mrs. Nwanta Lynda Ngozi (Principal Accountant Officer). An experienced educator and mother with the zeal to impact and transform the lives of children form its Board of Directors. Other passionate and trustworthy individuals also form the core of ECMF staff strength to ensure the entrenchment of TRUST as a cardinal principle in the effective and efficient utilization and management of funds and in dealings with our clients.    

Six Latrines for Gami Village Primary School Initiative is a brainchild of ECMF, a start-up, registered non-governmental organization birthed out of genuine humanistic concerns, desire and willingness to affect true positive changes as well as provide strong hope for a brighter future in the lives of indigent, disadvantaged African children, utilizing education as a viable weapon for empowerment and enlightenment.     

As an educational and Humanity based NGO, our clients and partners range from individual donors, donor agencies, private companies, all tier of government, communities and countries where we operate as well as any other groups who share vested interests in making a difference in the world.  Our direct target beneficiaries are indigent, underprivileged Nigerian (African) children while indirect beneficiaries of our activities and initiatives are vulnerable local and rural communities in different states of Nigeria and beyond.