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Rishilpi Water Treatment Plant Project From unsafe to safe drinking water
Report on the Effectiveness of Community Filter
at Faizullapur Rishi Para Village
PROGETTO UOMO RISHILPI INTERNATIONAL ONLUS works for disadvantaged communities in
rural Bangladesh. Faizullapur village is located in the Satkhira district; among others, there are
64 Rishi families living there, so the community is known as Faizullapur RISHI PARA. Rishilpi is
operating since time in this village with a Community Primary School (CPS).
The majority of Faizullapur community people (Rishi Para) are poor and maximum of their
livelihood depends on their inherited profession such
as bamboo crafts, saloon works and leathers works.
This type of community is vulnerable due to caste
discrimination. Once, the Rishi people were treated as
untouchable people and nobody of them had access
to the house of mainstream of society; they could not
touch their tube well or even could not collect water
from their ponds. They were deprived of healthcare,
education, water and sanitation facility. The village
had no good facility for safe drinking water and
people were suffering from various water borne
diseases. Water available in the area is contaminated by salinity and ground water has high
level of Iron and Arsenic. Collect and reserve rainwater in the Jar/pot is one of the sources of
drinking water, but it was not easy for people leaving there, as their houses are not suitable to
collect rainwater.
The Water Treatment Plant (WTP) Project has focused the attention on the various problems
and has decided to intervene introducing an affordable technology to ensure sustainable water
source, thus preventing diseases caused by water and reducing the health risks caused by iron
and arsenic. The Community Filter (CF) is considered a very good affordable technology for
arsenic-iron removal: this type of filter is used to purify water in areas where it is pumped from
normal tube (around 150 feet deep) and results contaminated, not drinkable. The filter is used
with a 500 liters plastic tank, which contains the potable water.
In Faizullapur village live 430 people belonging to 92 families. Of these, 304 belong to the Rishi community and are part of 64 families. Due to their poverty and ignorance, the community people do not have the ability to arrange proper actions and / or investments for safe water collection. Even, they do not have knowledge of technology or processes to regular test the water quality. Thanks to funds contributed by Gli Amici di Francesco, Rishilpi WTP Project has installed a first CF in the village at the beginning of March, ensuring safe drinking water to more or less half people leaving there.
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The beneficiaries of Faizullapur village are
sincerely grateful to the donors for their kind
support to their village and especially to Rishi
people.
Thanks to GLI AMICI DI FRANCESCO, Rishilpi has been able to install two
precious Community Filters:
the first one at the beginning of March 2017
and the second one in June 2017!
During the Community Filter opening ceremony, many
persons wanted to express their happiness and thanks. Mr.
Ador Das (one of the Community Leaders and donor of the
land where the first filter has been installed) said that the
Community Filter really created a good opportunity for all
people to collect safe drinking water. Mr. Sushil Das is happy
to find the CF in their village and he is grateful to Rishilpi for
the installation. Mr. Abdul Aziz said that Rishi people were
vulnerable and suffered in water crisis, but now they have the
great opportunity to collect safe drinking water from the
community filter.
Everybody conveyed many thanks to the Donor GLI AMICI DI
FRANCESCO ONLUS.
During the month of March, village people could fully appreciate the good functioning of the
Community Filter. It was so successful, that during the regular visit of one Rishilpi's
representative, community people reported that water borne diseases (such as diarrhea,
dysentery, skin disease, arsenicosis skin problems and other diseases) were reducing
considerably compared to the past.
The External Auditor
and ODV ex 231/01 of
Progetto Uomo
Rishilpi Int’l Onlus,
Mrs. Clelia Pizzalli,
opens the Community
Filter at Faizullapur, in
the presence of the
President Monica Tosi
and the Director Enzo
Falcone.
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In this occasion, the other Leader of Faizullapur village asked if it should be possible to install a
second filter to meet the needs of all the remaining villagers.
WTP Project Team has been promptly involved in the issue. After having checked the
availability of funds, the Team immediately activated for installation.
Once installed and made functioning, really everybody expressed their happiness and
satisfaction for the new facility!
The other Land donor, Mr. Udoy Das, said this second Community Filter would create good
source of pure drinking water for all the remaining people. Mr. Jamuna Das expressed his
happiness to get the facility and he is grateful to Rishilpi. Mr. Liakot Ali told that Community
Filter will drastically reduce the water crisis for Rishi community!
Again, everybody conveyed many thanks to:
RISHILPI WATER TREATMENT PLANT TEAM and GLI AMICI DI FRANCESCO ONLUS !
Prepared by:
03.07.2017
Savaronjon Sikder Manager-Communication and Documentation Progetto Uomo Rishilpi International Onlus
Women of
Faizullahpur Rishi
Community are
collecting water from
the newly installed
Community Filter.
This is the second
Community Filter
installed by Rishilpi
Water Treatment
Plant Team.