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Sierra Leone: Kaningo Community Undertakes Water Well Project
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Concord Times (Freetown)
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Ben Samuel Turay
Freetown
Kaningo community in Lumley Freetown Friday developed and undertook its first in a series of water well projects for the residents of community and its immediate surroundings.
A community elder Pa Saio Ferenkeh said they have decided to undertake the projects because the community is very large to be using one small water well.
"We had asked every household to contribute Le 3,000 and some big houses paid Le 4,000. That is the strategy we implemented to buy three bags of cement, sand and paid the laborers," he said.
The community plays hosts to over 1,000 people with water well as the only source of drinking time.
"The water has no taste, no color, no smell and nobody has ever complained of any water related sicknesses.
It comes from under the ground and the environment is clean," he said.
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Lamin Fofonah, a youth in the community, said he contributed and also helped to dig the well.
Fatmata Bangura said the community alone cannot construct a proper well because the population keeps increasing.
She called on the necessary authority to come to the aid of the people of Kaningo.
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