Honduras Water Project 2011
Community: Chapernal, Olancho (South Western Hondruas) and Coyolar, Olanchito (northern Honduras)
Partner agency: Diaconia Nacional and Alfalit Honduras (both partners of CRWRC)
Team: Northern Alberta Deacons Conference and King's University College
Date of departure: May 3, 2011
Funds needed per person: $3,200 for travel expenses and materials for the construction of the
water system
Funds needed for team: For 20 team members, nearly $61,000
Grant from NADC: $20,200
Remaining funds needed by April 28: $40,800.00 for the team
If you would like to make a direct donation to the team, please make
your check payable to NADC/CRWRC Honduras Water Project
This is the 16th year of King’s partnership with NADC and CRWRC in the Honduras Water Project. Over the years more than 225 team members have participated in this excellent learning and service project.
We are pleased to introduce you to the 2011 Honduras Water Project Team:
• Geoff Brouwer (team leader in Coyolar)
• Travis McKenzie
• Cherilyn Bradley
• Terri McCausland
• Jason Brohier
• Adriana Fernandez
• Annalise Opthof
• Corin Boersma
• Danelle Kastelein
• Lindsay Loset
• Ashlee Brandsma (team leader in Charpernal)
• Claire Stiksma
• Matthew Gelderman
• Justine Lindemulder
• Juliana Bosma
• Kim Visser
• Collin Gelderman
• Melanie Reize
• Allison Heinen
• Ben Folkman
We will be holding a few more fund raisers in and around Kings that we want you to know about:
• A CAR WASH both at Kings on April 14 and Red Robins Restaurant on the West End, date TBA
• Once again the team is available to do any kind of yard work, or other grunt labor, for those who might need it in exchange for a donation to the project. If you need any work done around your yard/house, let me know and we will get a work crew out for you.
• Selling Pizza and Seeds – contact Justine Vandergrift for more info.
• A sports tournament of some kind (date TBA)
Thank you for helping to support the community in Honduras and the students who hope to learn so much from them.
Description of the Communities and Projects:
Chapernal, Olancho (South Western Hondruas)
The community of Chapernal is located to the west with the town of San Franciasco de la Paz, at 15 kilometers of distance and 45 minutes by car from the town (San Francisco de la Paz).
In this community there are 3 villages/neighborhoods that will be beneficiated with the potable water project, these are: Pie de la Cuesta, Chapernal and Boca del Monte. The community has one public school with 28 children (10 girls and 18 boys), there is no kindergarten, there is a community pro improvement council in charge of the community projects, there aren’t temples or ecclesiastic buildings in the community, however around 20 people call themselves catholic, 3 families in the community attend the CRC in Coyola (around 20 people).
These communities’ main income is agriculture, they plant mainly corn, beans and few yucca, banana and vegetables such as peppers, onion and tomatoes and agriculture.
The needs in this community are many, in education few of the boys and girls have access to high school education, boys finish only their primary school and dedicate to the work in the field, and girls help with home chores.
In the health area, people have to travel great distances to the town of San Francisco de la Paz because there is no health center nearby. Most of the houses are made of bahareque and adobe with zinc and clay tiles roofs, very few are made of blocks. Most of the houses don’t have cement floor, (just dirt), very few houses have latrines, some houses have barrels to collect rain water, this because of the water problem in the community.
In the community there is a council and water board, parents association and an agriculture social organization from the catholic pastoral. All of these community organizations will work actively in the project coordination.
DN doesn’t have a current program in the community, however has been decided to do the project in this community since it’s a white field of the Coyolar CRC.
The project will: Build a dam of water collecting at the source, building distribution tank (by gravity) and the installation of water line pipe from source to tank and tank to the community. The project size is 4 kilometers in total. TKUC group’s work and their funds will be used in the making of the home pipeline (to 34 households), the group will work during their stay in digging ditches, paste and install pipes and installation the connection to each household.
COYOLAR, Olanchito
The village Coyolar, lacks of a secure water supply system for human consumption. They acquire water for their basic needs from a small creek near the community.
The main motivation of this project is the improvement the life’s quality of the inhabitants of this community considering the improvement of the health conditions and a better hygiene.
The water community board has collaborated with ALFALIT Honduras, SANAA (Servicio Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillado – National Service of Aqueducts and Sewers) and Peace Corps, to design a potable water project. All of the partners are pleased to work together to achieve an effective solution and now with the integration of the Municipality of Olanchito which will also contribute to this project. The SANAA has elaborated a design for the water system, and there’s an assigned fund to support the project.
ALFALIT is supporting the community with the management and planning, they count with a medium term Strategic Plan, in which “the construction of a potable water system is priority number one”. There are other needs such as latrines, improvement of the road and an equipped school but still water is the most important.
The project consists in the construction of a multiple potable water system that will work by gravity and will benefit three communities: La Gloria, El Porvenir y El Coyolar (also known as El Coyol) and the infrastructure which consist in the conducting line, construction of the dam and sedimentation box and three tanks for supply, one for each community, the distribution system it is of approximately twelve kilometers with their respective accessories to benefit thirty five (35) families of La Gloria, twenty (20) families of El Provenir and forty (40) families of El Coyolar. The size of the tanks is designed with technical criteria according the population of each community, tanks will be build with brick walls and cement. The piping line will descend six hundred (600) meters and slow down structures will be necessary to release the high pressure of the water.
For more information contact Justine Vandergrift, ext 8107, justinevandergrift@kingsu.ca. or roy.berkenbosch@kingsu.ca