Rehabilitation of Water Supply Scheme Village Sheikhee District Nowshera

The flood of July 2011 had flushed away the water supply scheme of Sheikhee Village in Union Council Pahari Katti Khel of District Nowshera. This disaster had caused extreme difficulty in getting clean drinking water for inhabitants of village Sheikhee. Women and children had to fetch water from far flung natural water springs and ponds. Quality of water from these ponds was often very poor causing disease like diarrhea, rabies etc. The situation was brought to the notice of PEDO through locals of the area.

PEDO mobilized resources for this rehabilitation project and Hassan Foundation USA supported PEDO to rehabilitate this water supply scheme. PEDO formed a village committee to coordinate the whole project. A women subcommittee was also formed to have women say in the project.

First PEDO conducted water quality test from authorized laboratory, one the test report was clear PEDO started working on the project.
All pipes, accessories and other construction materials were provided by PEDO, while all labour charges were born by the community. A community based monitoring committee was also formed to monitor the work progress. The water supply scheme is now fully rehabilitated and functional with increased access to new localities. This is a gravity flow water supply scheme.

 

 

PEDO has formed and trained an operation and maintenance committee for the better operation of the water supply scheme.
This committee collets monthly water tariff from each connection holder and perform routine maintenance.  
Now clean drinking water reaches each household and women and children can spend their time in other productive activities. A total population of 5000 is benefiting from this water supply scheme.

 

Student Support Program.

PEDO has formed a consortium with Chitral Association for Education and Health (CAEH).
Both the organizations have common objective to work for poverty alleviation through education and health promotion. Initially this consortium has started proving scholarships to the needy and deserving students  under the project name “ Students Support Program”.  PEDO and CAEH consortium believes that education is one of the most important tools for progress and development of an individual as well as of society. Keeping in view this goal this project helps the graduate and post graduate level students from very poor families to complete their studies. PEDO and CAEH consortium mobilize resources from different individual donors and philanthropists across the country and ensures that these funds reach the poor of the poorest for studies in different colleges and universities of the country.

So far, more than 80 students are received scholarships from “Student Support Program”, which include 58 boys and 22 girls students from all over the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. This program is getting popularity that number of applications for support has been reached to more than 500 this year. On the other hand number of donors and philanthropists are also increasing day by day.