Campus Coordinating Volunteers
The Campus Coordinating Volunteers are the Local KARIBS Volunteer Corps, spearheading Campaign Projects, geared towards the achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Projects such as,
- Domestic and Gender Based Violence against Women
- Community Greening for Climate Action
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
- Adolescent Reproductive Health
- Obstetric Fistula and Cervical
Currently, under Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), we are embarking on Life-saving and changing project dubbed…
The “Agordjor Water Project”. We believe that access to clean water is a basic necessity of life as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, and we are committed to working with other stake holders to ensure that everyone in the Agordjor community and its environs have access to safe drinking water.
The “Agordjor Water Project” aims at helping to reduce the stress the people of Agordjor and the surrounding communities go through to access water, which is even unclean. This informed our organization’s decision to lend a helping hand to the ten communities surrounding the Agordjor Township suffering the same fate by way of:
*Provision of clean and safe water
*Creating accessibility to clean and safe water
*Ensuring sustainability of clean and safe water supply
Three sources for the Agordjor Water Projects were considered (such as grown water, spring source and stream or river). Stream water source came highly recommended according to the feasibility report.
The stream source about 2km from Agordjor has relative high flow, also perennial in nature and would require treatment due to exposure to the environment but provides a good point for construction of an intake weir and abstraction well.
The proposed water supply structure will include the following:
*An intake weir and abstraction well
*Pump installation and electrical works
*A transmission pipe from intake points to treatment Plant
*Surface water treatment Plant
*An integrated clear water and storage tank
*Distribution pipe network
*Public Stand pipes
For the construction of the Water supply system, a total estimated amount GH¢. 2, 052,550.26. Details below:
NO. | DESCRIPTION | ESTIMATED COST (GHS) |
|---|---|---|
1 | Construction of intake weir, abstraction well/sump and boulder protection | 36,353.16 |
2 | Pump installation, power extension and electrical works | 325,675.00 |
3 | Water treatment plant
| 287,218.72 |
4 | Storage tank with platform and fittings | 118,661.70 |
5 | Distribution pipework’s and fittings for 9720m pipes of sizes ranging 40-90mm, with 10No. Valve chambers | 898,425.00 |
6 | Standpipes installed on concrete platform and fitted with water meters (9No.) | 18,000.00 |
7 | Sub-total | 1,764,333.58 |
8 | Contingency | 288,216.68 |
9 | GRAND TOTAL | 2,052,550.26 |
Lands have been acquired for the siting of the dam, and treatment for the proposed water project.
As stated in the feasibility study, the demand for the water in this various communities are estimated at 220,000 liters per day or 58,117.89 gallons per day.
NOTE – There is a formal feasibility study on the proposed project done by technical team from Atlantic Hydro-Engineering. If you are interested to support this project, we can schedule a formal meeting and deliberate on the feasibility study and the way forward.
