befejezett project

In one of the world's most underdeveloped countries, the poverty, the low living and medical standards and the healthcare problems cause bad hygenic circumstances and the lack of clean drinking-water. In accordance with our Hungarian and International objectives, we try to manage these problems in our social- educational center and in the neighbourhood.

We are launching educational programmes concerning sustainable water management and sanitation in our centre of Kinshasa and the surrounding 10 streets.With our new project, we aspire to promote the strategic goals established by Millennium Development Goals and the Hungarian International Development and Cooperation Department of Foreing Affairs.

The aims of the project

• In the short term our aim is to provide access to permanent clean drinking-water and sanitation furthermore to start up the related and relevant education programmes.
• On the long run our comrehensive target is to reduce the poverty to increase the hygienic circumstances and the standards and prestige of our school. In addition to provide quality education and the opportunity of exams for pupils, to find new income resources for the school, to adapt new majors, departments and teacher, together with reforming the people's approach and way of thinking, developing the communal living-standards, the local employment rates and the security in our school.

The activities of the project

Primarly we improve the infrastructure of public utilities (including the development of the current water and electrical systems). Thus we can carry on providing clean drinking water for our centre and the local inhabitants. We are planning on purchasing a well drilling machine which can be a profitable investment for our Centre in the future. Our educational programmes focusing on sanitation are not only ensured in the school, but also in the surrounding areas, since the sanitary and medical problems originating from the lack of hygiene concerns everyone here. Also as part of this project we propose launching an informative campaign in Hungary to change the people's way of thinking.

Our target audiences are

• the direct targets are the employees and students of College Othniel (40 employee + 700 student + 11 orphan = about 750 ppl.)
• the indirect targets: the relatives of the students + people living in the surrounding areas (170 families (7 people average) = 1190 ppl +about 15-20.000 ppl.).

If everything goes well we can reach about 22.000 people through our project in Kinshasa and millions here in Hungary by the campaign!

Sponsor:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Our partner:
Duna Museum