Can students from the
University of New Hampshire creatively deliver water to a village with an
average annual rainfall of 8 inches?
In January 2005, EWB-USA
granted SWB our newest international project: engineering water pumping
and storage systems to support school market gardens in the Sahel region
of Niger, West Africa. SWB is
collaborating with RAIN for the Sahel and Sahara (RAIN), a non-profit
organization based in UNH’s neighboring town of Newmarket, New
Hampshire. RAIN’s mission is
to develop and support residential schools for children of the semi-nomadic
Tuareg people. The Tuareg , who
for centuries have transported salt in the Sahel, rely on these boarding
schools for the education and fulfilling the promise of their youth.
Specific Project Goals
…
·
Pump
water from a well depth of 15 feet.
·
Pump
1000 gallons of water per day for drip irrigation.
·
Integrate
knowledge of Tuareg people into designing a culturally appropriate
solution.
·
Design
a durable cistern with local materials to survive harsh climate.
For more information or to
make a donation
·
please
contact Whitney Blanchard whb@unh.edu.
View our project brochure (right click and select
“save as…” to download).
