15 school water, sanitation and hygiene project in Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri Provinces, Cambodia
Our flagship project for 2024 saw 15 remote ethnic minority schools in NE Cambodia benefit from improvements to their water, sanitation and hygiene facilities including the installation of new wells and water filtration systems. Guernsey Aid funded the whole project and it was implemented by United World Schools, our in-country partner in Cambodia. One of the schools involved was Chak Chap, which was built by Guernsey Aid in conjunction with UWS in 2022. They were provided with a new accessible and disability friendly toilet.
Altogether more than 1,300 children in 6 mainly Bunong village communities have benefited from the improved facilities (see the photos above taken by Dr Nick and Claudine when they visited the project in January 2025).
The project addressed the following challenges: a) A lack of access to safe drinking water whilst at school, b) Insufficient well depth to provide an adequate water supply in the dry season, c) Poor hand-washing facilities that failed to meet hygiene sensitization standards and d) A lack of accessible and disability inclusive toilet facilities.
Solar energy project at Tikondane School and Community Centre, Katete, Eastern Zambia
We also successfully completed another ambitious project at the beginning of this year in Katete, Eastern Zambia where we have installed 36 solar panels on the roof of the Guernsey Great Hall at Tikondane School and Community Centre.
The hall was originally funded by a grant from the Guernsey Overseas Aid and Development Commission and was opened by Dr Nick on behalf of the Commission in 2011.
This project was co-ordinated by our Treasurer, Peter Keeling. whose links to Tikondane go back many years. Its completion means that all of the 13 buildings that make up the site will have a reliable and sustainable source of energy. This in turn will keep down costs and will enhance the scope of the community work that can be done at the centre which already includes early childhood and adult learning opportunities, health education and HIV counselling, skills training for small businesses and food security programmes.
St Paul’s Secondary School, Chinhenga, Zimbabwe
In 2024 in conjunction with the Guernsey Circle of the Catenian Association we helped to provide St Paul’s Secondary School and the surrounding community with a brand new solar powered borehole. Dr Nick and Claudine visited Chinhenga in September 2024 and were made extremely welcome. In time for Easter this year Guernsey Aid has made a further donation that will enable a sanitation block and a dedicated girls hygiene room to be built at the school.
New maternity unit at Sitima Health Clinic, near Zomba, Malawi
A grant from us has funded the cost of all the specialised medical equipment, including beds and fittings, needed for a new maternity unit which has been built at the Sitima rural health centre in central Malawi. Most pregnant women in the area previously delivered at home in poor unhygienic conditions and without appropriate supervision so the opening of a dedicated maternity unit is undoubtedly going to improve outcomes for both mothers and babies alike.
Manbu Health Post, Gorkha District, Nepal
In partnership with the team at PHASE Nepal (Practical Help Achieving Self Empowerment) we have provided some much needed medical equipment and an ultrasound scanner for use in their isolated mountain healthpost at Manbu Village in the remote northern district of Gorkha. The healthpost is run by two resident and extremely dedicated ANM’s (Auxiliary Nurse Midwives.
As well as providing a primary healthcare and maternity service for the 6,000 village inhabitants, they also offer an outreach programme which includes home visits, community meetings and health education classes at the local school. Dr Nick and Claudine stayed with them for a few days in February this year and were incredibly impressed with the work they do (see photos below).
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