Project Time Period: 2008 - 2015
Project Location: Dacope upazila under Khulna district.
Funding Agency: SIMAVI, The Netherlands, PR, Japan, & NGO Foundation, Bangladesh
Rainwater Harvesting Plant ( RHP):
To provide safe drinking water in saline prone local where both surface and ground water is saline, (beyond permissible level) household base RHPs were constructed in Chalna Municipality & Pankhali Union, under Dacope Upazila, Khulna. The support was given to women headed household and poorest of the poor households.
Goal:
Providing safe drinking water to the poor women house holds who are suffering from fresh drinking water due to salinity problem..
Direct beneficiaries:
For covering target beneficiaries, priority was given to the person with disability, widow, destitute, Horizon/Dalit, and old age people among the poor people of Dacope, upazila. As per the designed activities, a total of 175 RHPs were constructed in different villages of Dacope Upazila, Khulna. The beneficiaries were also provided training on safe drinking water and sanitaion.