$101 to $200

Community Description
The community of MballoCoundaThierno is located in the region of Kolda. It is a village of 350 people and is located 8 km from the road. It is a Pulaar village in which the majority of people farm peanuts, corn, cotton and other grains. They also tend to have a large number of livestock.

The local elementary school serves the 4 surrounding villages, with an attendance of close to 200 children. The teachers and the parents association are very motivated and work hard to improve the schooling conditions for their children.

The elementary school has six toilets that were constructed roughly 5 years ago. They are in very poor condition and have become unusable. The doors have fallen off and they clog easily.

Project Description
This project is to will repair 6 bathrooms at the school and restore them to full functionality, and also build a latrine for the teachers.

The bathroom repairs consist of repairing doors, unclogging toilets, constructing two water basins and expanding the walkway that connects them.

The doors will be built using zinc and wood frames, and then a stronger type of metal, supported by cement, to guarantee they stay attached. The mason who will complete this task lives in a nearby city. He has a great reputation and comes highly recommended by the school director.

The work on the toilets will be done by a paid plumber, who will completely remove the ceramic cases in order to unclog them, and replace tubing as needed.

The teachers will supervise the toilets and keep them locked after school hours, weekends and vacation in order to prevent misuse.

The next task will be to build three washbasins that will enable the children and teachers to wash their hands.

Also included will be a cement base walkway that will expand out from the basins and connect to the toilets.

The next step in the project is to construct a simple latrine for the teachers.

Then, simple fencing will be erected to protect the bathrooms and sanitation supplies will be purchased.

A simple pit latrine will also be built for the use of the teachers.

The school director has organized student committees who will be in charge of regularly cleaning and taking care of the toilets. In collaboration with the project, a series of workshops will be held to teach bathroom maintenance and etiquette.

Project Impact
This project will benefit at least the 200 students who attend this school.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Jenae Woodward

Comments
This toilet renovation project will play a vital role in the sanitation of the village and serve to decrease illness.

Dollar Amount of Project
$520.00

Donations Collected to Date
$320.00

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Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.

Dollar Amount Needed
$200.00

Community Description
Kotovsk is a town of 40,000 people in the Odeska Oblast in southwest Ukraine.

Kotovsk also serves as a Rayon Center for 61 villages and 28,000 people. Once a flourishing city of factories and a large military unit, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Kotovsk and its population have faced difficult economic times.

The State Lyceum is an agricultural vocational school located in the city of Kotovsk. The Lyceum provides students in the city and surrounding villages of the Rayon with the opportunity to develop the skills they need to become working professionals. Besides degrees in agriculture and maintenance, students may also graduate from the Lyceum with degrees to be qualified chefs, drivers, electricians, and plumbers.

Most of the students who attend the Lyceum have struggled academically and come from troubled homes and thus cannot attend the University. Of the 480 students, 240 come from the Rayon’s villages, 84 are orphans, 50 come from one-parent households, and 48 from low-income families.

The Lyceum was built in 1956 and has not been renovated since. The school lacks finances and because of the low income of most of the families, it is difficult to raise a large sum of money to improve the facilities.

The Lyceum currently has 3 outhouses (one for men and one for women) with holes in the floor serving as toilets, and no hand washing station. Besides being unsanitary, the men’s outhouse has no separators and the students must urinate and defecate in front of each other, which is extremely humiliating.

In the winter, using the bathroom becomes an ordeal. There are so many students and staff, during breaks they must wait in long lines outside, in below freezing temperatures.

Project Description
This project is to convert an existing custodian utilities room into two bathroom stalls and hand washing stations inside the Lyceum for the use of students, teachers and staff.

Project funds will be used to purchase two toilets, two sinks, faucets, plastic plumbing pipes, doors, cement and tile.

The Lyceum’s agricultural department will raise any additional money needed to complete the project by selling crops from their field.

The staff is very enthusiastic about this project and has already completed the preparation work needed for the installation. Teachers and staff specialized in plumbing and electrical work have volunteered their time and labor to complete the project.

Project Impact
This project will benefit 597 people, including 480 students and 117 faculty and staff.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Diana Duarte

Comments
This project is being done economically using existing space. It will improve the health and wellbeing of the students and staff at the Lyceum.

Dollar Amount of Project
$555.00

Donations Collected to Date
$405.00

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Dollar Amount Needed
$150.00

Community Description
Nakhon Nayok is one of the central provinces of Thailand. The Administrative Division of Ban Na is in the western part of the province.

This project is located on a property centrally located near the Senior Center, Health Center, and the Sub-district Administration Office (SAO), with easy access by all community members.

The community is primarily agricultural, growing rice and fruit. Families living on small farms, less than 10 acres each, rely on selling rice, fruit, hogs and chickens to generate an income.

The community is establishing a museum of local oral history. The facility will also serve many other community needs.

Using senior citizens and high school students, the lives of local people and families will be documented by interviews and pictures. The collection will reflect the community members’ need to identify with the history and the place in which they live.

Each village is directly involved in contributing their family histories to the museum. In addition, the school will use the facility to teach local history, involving the students from an adjoining community, Ban Na.

Project Description
This project is to provide the water and sanitation facilities for the community museum.

Specifically, the project will provide clean accessible drinking water for adults and children through the purchase and installation of drinking fountains and sinks, and a hygienic operational bathroom, by bringing water to the facility.

Project funds will be used to purchase sinks and fixtures as well as pipe, hardware., and other materials.

The community will provide the necessary labor at no cost, utilizing experienced village tradesmen from an approved list.

The museum will be developed in an existing traditional historical wooden Thai building, which is vacant at present. Although it is over 100 years old, it is very sturdy and will provide adequate space for exhibits, community meetings, student visitations and lectures. The building has been donated at no cost.

The museum will be run at little or on cost and on an entirely volunteer basis.

The project is being administered under the direction of Paka Sub-district Administration Office (SAO).

Project Impact
This project will benefit the 10,000 people currently living in the Tambon (13 villages) who can be expected to visit the facility.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Toni Castellucci

Comments
This project has great community support, and is being implemented largely with local resources. The completed facility will be visited by a large number of people who will benefit from the water and sanitation services provided by this project.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$300.00

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Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.

Dollar Amount Needed
$200.00

Community Description
Izmail is a small city of 80,000 people, located approximately 160 km south of Odessa at the mouth of the Danube River Delta. It is home to an internationally protected wildlife, plant and nature preserve.

Izmail is the largest Ukrainian port on the Danube, with direct access to the Black Sea. It is a base of the Ukrainian Navy and Ukrainian Sea Guard units operating along the Danube,

The historically famous fortress of Izmail was built by Genoese merchants in the 12th century. Today, residents boast of a diverse ethnic and cultural mix consisting of Ukrainians, Russians, Moldavians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Poles, Roma, and Turks.

Once a flourishing port city, difficult economic conditions since the 1990s have severely limited funding for needed social programs. Because Ukrainians traditionally care for their elderly parents and relatives, few homes for senior citizens exist.

Izmail operates a regional home for disabled seniors who have no family or have been deserted. While seniors are provided with food, medication, and basic needs, there is no available funding for basic sanitary rehabilitation projects such as providing a sufficient number of working toilets and wash basins.

The Izmail Regional Home for Pensioners & Disabled Senior Citizens was created by the local and regional governments in 1963 to house and supply medical services to indigent disabled senior citizens with no other living options.

It occupies a 50+ year old soviet style building that is in need of serious renovations for which no funding source exists. Currently, 35 retired seniors, many disabled and in need of varied medical care, reside full time at the home, which is supported by their small individual government pensions.

They are supplied with basic services, such as meals, assistance with personal hygiene, general mobility, attention to medical issues, and medication.

The facility consists of a small meeting room, offices for staff and medical treatment, an old kitchen where all meals are cooked and dormitory-style sleeping rooms shared by 2-3 residents per small room.

Each floor shares a bathroom with limited and often unsanitary and unusable fixtures. Throughout the facility, the toilets, wash basins, faucets, and other water connections are in very poor condition and in serious need of repair.

The facility has failed numerous sanitation and code requirement inspections due to the poor condition of the plumbing. Present unsanitary conditions include uncapped sewer pipes and disconnected toilets.

Project Description
This project will repair and replace the worst plumbing and unhygienic situations in the building. Work to be done includes repairing or replacing five wash basins, four toilets, and all leaking and/or non functioning faucets.

To maximize replacement of hardware, all labor will be provided by in-house staff.

Project Impact
The project will directly benefit 35 disabled senior citizens as well as 25 staff who care for them around the clock.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Ilse Whisner

Comments
This project will greatly improve sanitary conditions, code compliance, and resident comfort by restoring basic service for the home. This will vastly improve the lives of the handicapped senior citizens and their caretakers.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$350.00

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Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.

Dollar Amount Needed
$150.00

This project has been finished. To read about the conclusion of the project, CLICK HERE.

Community Description
Izmail is approximately 160 km directly south of Odessa at the mouth of the Danube River Delta and is the southernmost city in Western Ukraine. The Romanian border is just across the river.

Throughout history this region has been very strategically important as a military and port site with nearby access to the Black Sea. The Danube Delta is an internationally protected wildlife, plant and nature preserve.

The area enjoys a moderate climate with magnificent greenery in summer and semi-mild winters. Unfortunately, Izmail, the Danube Delta area, and the whole of Ukraine have been negatively impacted by the worldwide economic crisis, resulting in a reduction of funding available for necessary rehabilitation projects.

Izmail is a medium-sized city of 75,0000 citizens that enjoy a very diverse ethnic and cultural population mix, including Ukrainians, Moldovans, Turks, Roma, Bulgarians, and Russians, totaling nearly 20 distinct groups.

The city enjoys exceptionally congenial community spirit and energy. Izmail proudly boasts that it was once the location of impressive Fortress Izmail where in 1790 the great military leader, Alexander Suborov, defeated the Turkish army eliminating Turkish rule of the area and fort,

The regional increase in births and current economic problems place considerable strains upon the available preschool and kindergarten facilities for children one to five years old. Building additional facilities at this time is financially infeasible. Therefore, existing facilities must serve larger numbers. To do so, they must be brought back to working condition to accommodate the load.

The Kindergarten School is located in an urban environment and serves a large diverse and growing population.

Project Description
This project is to replace old disconnected and unusable toilets and sinks at the school. This is required for proper sanitation, as the number of children in the school will soon be doubled from 50 to 100.

Current unusable and missing toilets will be replaced in two existing toilet rooms of two units each. One restroom will be used by boys and the other for girls.

Another area, currently with cold water only in one of three sinks, will have new hot and cold faucets installed on all three sinks.

Water will be reconnected and new piping will be installed.

The functional sinks will allow the children to wash their hands for sanitary purposes and will also serve as a dish washing area for dishes and utensils used to feed the children.

All labor required will be performed by school maintenance staff, so project funds will be used only for required physical supplies such as pipe, faucets, toilets, and seats.

Project Impact
This project will impact 100 children, ages one to five, along with 6 teachers at the school. In addition, more than 200 family members will benefit indirectly, since better sanitation will result in a decrease in illness among the children.

Peace Corps Volunteer Directing Project
Carl Whisner

Comments
This project will provide a sanitary and safe environment for the increasing number of children using the Kindergarten School.

Dollar Amount of Project
$500.00

Donations Collected to Date
$315.00

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Any contributions in excess of the Dollar Amount of Project will be allocated to other projects directed by this PCV and/or projects of other PCVs in this country.

Dollar Amount Needed
$185.00

This project has been finished. To read about the conclusion of the project, CLICK HERE.