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Q&A
- 1. Q&A on February 3, 2014 Feasibility of the water project Q1. Is 5,000L really enough for 200 students for full academic year? Even if children go to school only 200 days out of 365 days, they can get only 0.125L per day. Isn’t it too small? Water School No. of Water for Tank price Construction tank (L) days students one/day(L) (SEK) (SEK) 2000 203 200 0.05 5000 203 200 0.12 4000 6000 7000 203 200 0.17 School days = 365 – 30*3 – 8*9 There are 2t, 5t, 7t tanks available. It’s the local coordinator in Nzega who said that 5t is enough to supply for 200 students for full academic year. But the credibility of the coordinator is not sure. Digging wells are declined for two reasons: first, it’s dangerous for students to fall (<= I can’t agree on this part since most of the students are +14.), and second, it cost a lot for maintenance (?). School in the marginal area will be put priority since they are poorer than the ones in the center. Q2. Which company is the supplier of the tank? How will tanks be delivered and installed? Q3. How will the tanks be installed? Does all school have good roofs to correct water? It’s not investigated. There are local experts in Nzega, and they have information about suppliers and construction. Q.4 What does 10,000SEK include? See Q1. Q.5 How long will it take the donation (10,000SEK) will be used to install a tank to the school? Will it happen next year for sure? Q.6 What if the project failed? Will you return our donation? These questions are TBD. But trial will be done first. Q.7 Do you think it’s sustainable in future, even though maintenance is required once per a year? It depends on the tank and purification system. At least some one will be employed to take care of tanks. The best is to educate teachers for basic maintenance. No idea about technical question such as how long the water tank last.
- 2. Q.8 Is it safe to install a tank in the school? Aren’t there any risks that someone steals the whole devices? In general, it’s safe area since Nzega is small and if someone do bad thing, he or she can’t live there. But it’s not sure about water tank. Maybe security guards will be needed to protect tanks in the night. Even in the daytime, people may come to ask for the water. Teachers are trust worthy, so we have to give them detailed instruction. Q.9 What’s the cost for (a) 30 Water tanks + 30 (Solar) Purification devices (b) 30 water tanks + 1 Purification system (c) 150t of Water bottles (d) 30 water tanks + 30 simple purification kit No calculation done. Q.10 Who will be responsible for the administration until full installation? Doesn’t AiDu need at least a project manager for the water project? Of course, AiDu needs more volunteers (!) to do this. About the value of education Q.1 Do people share an idea that education is important for children? Are parents happy to send children to school or want to keep them at home as work force? Do children appreciate for the aid? Many parents and students are aware but not in the same way as Gambia where everyone agrees that education is key for the village. Water will raise awareness the importance of education. In general, since Tanzania’s economy is growing, there are many companies that need employees who speak English. So graduating from secondary school will increase the possibility to be hired from them. Q.3 Why AiDu only supports secondary school? Why water project is only for secondary school even though water may be more important for smaller kids? Not sure. Since 2009 the support was done for secondary school so she couldn’t stop the ongoing project. In Tanzania, 97.3% goes to elementary school, though AiDu doesn’t know the reason of this. In Nzega there are strong demand for support for secondary school. Aid is until secondary so they can’t go to university. Q.3 What kind of jobs is available and where will most of them work after graduation? No idea. Unemployment ratio is also unknown. It seems many students get job after secondary school, but most of them stay in Nzega even after secondary school.
- 3. Q.4 Will children come back to the village after graduating university to help people? Or they escape to the city, and never come back to enjoy their rich life? No idea. Q.5 Is it necessary to install a tank? How children manage without water so far? (People in dry places can live with less water than us since body adjust itself to the environment.) It’s not emergent issue since they have done without water tanks so far. But from our point of view students should drink more water and local people also asked AiDu in the meeting. Q.6 Is AiDu offer sustainable solution? AiDu’s project is sustainable, and one reason is to staying at the same region, Nzega. Future vision: Maybe some kids will be engineer and come back to help. Some will be an entrepreneur. Children love Nzega, and people don’t want to move partly because the life in the city is tougher. Most students want to be teacher, doctor, engineer to help Nzega. So if we support them it’s going to be good for the entire region. Q.7 Why Nzega? 2009 Tom was searching project, he found good ongoing projects in Gambia and Tanzania project. Nzega is the poorest region and government appreciate that AiDu stays there. About the village Q.1 What’s the main industry in Nzega? Agriculture. Q.2 Why people are living there if people are that much suffered from the dry season? (People are smart. If they are tribes living there thousand of years and if there were any influence of colonization, war or socialist economy, they should have adopted to the environment and have wisdom to survive in that region, otherwise they will move out. There must have been something in the past in the region.) No idea. But at least what all supports are done following request from local people. AiDu got a document with listing relevant problems to improve the community. Q.3 What is the population, size of the area, political system and religion of Nzega? They have democracy but no idea about the details.