Deposit Imi ni Tizgui

At Auara, we are working to combat the greatest form of poverty there is: the lack of clean drinking water.

CONTEXT

Morocco's economic development has not reached the High Atlas region. Many villages still lack electricity, a domestic water supply, basic sanitation, or education.

In addition, women and children face social exclusion.

The local economy is subsistence-based: small vegetable gardens, herds of goats, and a few walnut trees are the only sources of income available. Eighty-five percent of the men migrate to the city for 10 months due to a lack of work. The women and children are left alone in the villages.

OBJECTIVES

The village gets its water from a spring that usually dries up between June and October. During these months, the river that runs nearby is polluted and the water is undrinkable, so the women and girls have to spend several hours a day walking to the nearest spring to fetch water, carrying 30- to 40-liter containers on each trip.
By building a water tank, they can collect water during the months when the surge is not dry. Channels have been made from the source to the reservoir, as well as from the reservoir to the dwellings, thus providing all the houses in the village with domestic drinking water, as well as a sewage evacuation system.

MILESTONES

This project has resulted in 400 people now having access to drinking water.

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PROJECT CONSTRUCTION DATE

29/01/2018

PARTNER

FINANCER