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Categories:
  • Education
  • Sanitation
Status:
Completed
Start Date:
26 Nov 2023
Cost:
$77,915.17

Build new bathrooms for Dohom Secondary School

 

Like most rural schools in Tanzania, the bathrooms at Dohom Secondary are inadequate and unsanitary. The government threatened to close the school due to the lack of proper sanitation with the current bathrooms. In fact, they had to close the original bathrooms entirely and have structured makeshift bathrooms, little more than holes in the groud with privacy walls until new bathrooms can be built.  To help alleviate the challenges, the education ministry gave Dohom Secondary Tsh 7,680,000 to invest in building new bathrooms. While this is excellent news, it is sorely insufficient to actually complete the entire project which needs to be done urgently to avoid closure.

 

This project will serve the 281 students and 14 teachers attending. It  will build girls bathrooms, boys bathrooms, teachers bathrooms, and outdoor handwashing sinks, as well as a sanitary sewage treatment system which includes a septic tank, anaerobic filters and soak away pits. 

 

The site layout plan shows where the new bathrooms will be built in blue.

 

Here you see the details for the bathroom construction including accessibility for wheelchairs. 

Girls and teachers bathrooms

 

Boys bathrooms

 

The community will contribute an extra Tsh 6,260,000, so the total community and government contribution will be ~7.85%.

 

The community came out in force to clear land, dig foundations, and grade grounds.

 

 

Foundations are dug and stones careful placed by hand in November
Walls are going up in December

 

Interior walls and plumbing going in in January
Roofs are on in March

 

Sanitation system progress in March
Indoor and outdoor sinks, faucets, and fixtures in April

 

 

The project construction was completed in May. The buildings are beautiful inside and out. The retaining wall not only protects the new structures from runoff, but adds a wonderful aesthetic. Sidewalks connect all bathrooms. A water tank assures availability of running water for sinks and toilets.

 

The girls and boys bathroom can be seen in the foreground with the teachers bathroom and water tank in the background.

 

Outdoor hand washing sink between the girls and boys bathrooms with a view of the retaining wall and sidewalks.

 

Interior views of urinals, hand washing sinks, clothes washing sinks (for the girls) and the exterior hand washing sinks.

 

Interior views of a western toilet, a squat toilet, the girls bathroom hallway, and the girls shower.

 

Benefits:

  • Improved hygiene

  • Reduced illness

  • Improved academic performance

 

Cost: 

  • Karimu cost: $72,443.74
  • Community and government contribution: $5,471.43

     

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