WATER FOR LIFE

ASSOCIATION

Pahou and Avlékété sectors : identification of needs / prioritization of emergency / establishment of monitoring committees consisting of local actors

 

 

In spring 2009, Serge KPOTON's internship (first-year student of Master's degree in Economic Management and Business Administration at Montpellier 1 University) is the opportunity to make the administrative follow-up of the project, by meeting the various inescapable Beninese partners for the success of the mission of WFL. It appears that it is essential to create a group of follow-up of our interventions with the on-the-spot partners. The time of this mission was used to establish documents all right of partnership for the projects of drinkable water conveyance. In the same way, Serge met the primary school teachers of villages concerned to schedule awareness-raising activities.

 

• Serge KPOTON, Jeanne HODONVU (Mayor of Pahou) and Timothy BIBI, Pahou, july 2009

 

The mission realized on the ground in july 2009 allowed first of all to integrate our works with the development plans of the territory and the current development(OUEME-2015 Directorate General of Water, under the responsibility of the Departmental Director of hydraulics of the Atlantic department and the Chairman ship of the Committee for management of water development in the districts Ouidah). Of our meetings and conversations, and thanks to Serge Kpoton's preliminary study, a group of follow-up of the projects of WFL in Benin was established, in july 16th, 2009 grouping people of concerned villages (neighborhood chief, primary school teachers, plumber, mechanic and members of the civilian population).

 

• Visit by WFL of the construction site of the new reservoir in Pahou, july 2009

 

• WFL team and part of the monitoring committee of the villages of Pahou and Avlékété, july 2009

 

In July 2009, the WFL team was constituted, on the ground, by Anne-Sophie Deville (second year of Master's degree Biology Ecology and Evolution, University of Montpellier 2), Antoine Riffard (second year of Master's degree Animation Communication and Scientific Mediation at the University Montpellier 2), and Arsene (second year of Master's degree Management of the Water at the University Montpellier 2). All three proposed in the schools of Pahou and Avlékété the educational activities, in association with the Directors of establishments, to educate the children in the various water-related diseases, in their modes of transmission, as well as rules that must be respected to prevent its spread. At Pahou, this raising awareness was completed by a visit of the site of the drilling to explain the water cycle in the village environment and to do understand the importance of wastewater discharge control.

 

• Antoine, at the Elementary School Pahou, july 2009
   

• Anne-Sophie at Avlékété Primary School, july 2009
   

• Visiting the drilling site in Pahou, july 2009
   

• Arsene and Anne-Sophie, at Pahou Primary School, july 2009