Igola village water gravity supply project
Igola village is about 40 km from Njombe town and about 280km from Iringa Region Headquarters. The current population is about 1,480 for Igola. That is to say the scheme intends to serve about 2,088 people under a planning period of 20 years i.e. up to 2031 if is to be constructed this year (2011).
This Village for a long time have not been supplied with clean and safe water despite water borne and water related diseases cases.
The scheme is estimated to cost about Ths 89,163,842.00 Where as the Donor Support required Tshs 76,150,562.00 Beneficiaries Contribution amounts to Tshs 7,498,080.00 and that of Town Council Contribution towards Implementation of this project amounts to Tshs. 5,515,080.00. The budget of the project is attached with this proposal. The project will take12 weeks (Four months) to complete the construction of the following water work structure:-
Intake – 1, storage tanks (50m3) = 1, transmission line\ = 5,000 km and distribution network = 5,690km, Domestic points = 13 and valve chambers. 8, 5-Break pressure tanks.
The Implementation of this scheme wills entirely base on beneficiary’s contributions and material/financial Support from other donor Agencies. Thus, this proposal serves as a working tool for soliciting funds to support beneficiary’s initiative so as to make the implementation possible for public taps only within 400m walking distance.
PROPOSED PROJECT: CHILD LABOUR ABOLITION IN NJOMBE DISTRICT
Children are an integral part of the society; therefore, they deserve the childhood rights as it is their in-born human right. UN convention on the rights of the child has ensured that every child in the world has the right to survival, development, protection and participation. This ensures the right to protection from every sort of exploitation and harm. Children are regarded as a source of hope and inspiration for future. However, an overwhelming majority of children in the world is deprived and denied for their fundamental rights. This situation is particularly so alarming in the third world countries, where a big majority of children are living and working in the most difficult circumstances. Children in this part of the world are not only suffered of hunger, mal-nutrition and exploitation, but are also subject to exploitation and abuses, and ultimately, they survive a painful life. Child labour is a cause and consequence of the socio-economic and political reality.
An estimated 250 million children today are working in the extremely intolerable condition. They are living and working in the most health hazardous and dangerous situation. They are deprived of their right to physical, social, emotional, and spiritual development. They are deprived and denied for their right to education. If no immediate measures are taken into account at present, there will be rather difficult situation in the future. Very recently, the National Planning commission has revealed the fact that the overall percentage of child labour between 6-14 years in Tanzania who are economically active is 25.5%( 4.4 are in the no-domestic sector and 21.4% are in domestic sector), but this does not include hundreds of thousand of those children who work as “child workers” and defined as the economically inactive working children. The national Planning Commission has indicated that there are 16.3% child labourers in rural areas while there are 26.7% in urban areas famously called house boys and house girls.
AFFORRESTATION PROJECT IN NJOMBE DISTRICT
The southern highlands of Tanzania within which Njombe District is located, consists of forests, plateaus grasslands and crater lakes that provide water, medicine, natural products of cultural identity as well as a refuge to flora and fauna of considerable conservation concern. The social-economic and environmental importance of the forestry sector in Tanzanian economy is significant, although in absolute terms, the sector contribution to the GDP is under estimated.
Current statistics reveal that during the past ten years the contribution has increased by about 35 percent from 2.6 to 3.4 percent of GDP. The forests cover 37.8 percent of the total landmass, which is about 33.5 million hectares.
The forests contain such a high level of biologically diverse resources that Tanzania is one of the richest countries in terms of biodiversity in the world and among the 12 most diverse countries. Tanzania has the largest number of mammals in Africa , second largest number of plants (10,000 species), third largest number of birds (1,035 species),fourth largest number of amphibians(123 species) and fifth largest number of reptiles (245species),all harbored by forests.
In addition to the above, the forests provide over 192 percent of the energy sources, support development of other important sector such as agriculture and tourisim, through provision of water sources (catchments), maintain hydrological balance and soil protection recycle atmospherically gases and provide construction materials.
1.2 About forestry in Njombe.
Njombe district has vast forests, some are natural and others are planted forests. Forests around Njombe have a lot of advantage to the inhabitants, they benefit using them as a source of income, source of energy, as materials for construction activities, and also these forests are important in environmental conservation. Apart from all the above mentioned advantages forests also serve as a habitual for wild animals where most of these animals live in natural forests. However, Njombe district planted forests are very few, individuals and companies grow them. Most of these forest are grown for special purpose, some are grown for timber production others for water conservation and wind breakers, others production of poles and others grown for medicine purposes.