Soul Clinic Community, Paynesville Liberia (WASH) Project
Soul Clinic Community, Paynesville City, Montserrado County, Liberia (WASH) Project
Project Number: HHFWASH71/2020
Location: Soul Clinic Community, Paynesville City, Montserrado County, LiberiaÂ
Mission: Prevent Disease, Promote Health, & Eliminate literacy for a Sustainable Future
Aim: Provide access to water, improve sanitation, and implement hygiene behavior practices to over estimated 400,000 populations, over 55 communities.
Location Profile:
Paynesville is a suburb east of Monrovia, Liberia. It is geographically larger than the city of Monrovia and is expanding eastward along the Roberts field Highway and northeastward beyond Red Light Market, one of the largest market areas in Liberia. Paynesville is often considered a part of the Greater Monrovia area. It was the location of the Paynesville Omega Transmitter, the highest structure of Africa, until the tower’s demolition in 2011. The Liberia Broadcasting System is also located in Paynesville.
Paynesville city faces a host of public health challenges caused by its difficulties with water management. Poor sewage and drainage systems, coupled with heavy rainfall result in the contamination of clean water and create breeding grounds for mosquitoes infected with malaria.
Paynesville is also vulnerable to the outbreak of disease, because of congestion of the Red-light market (one of the biggest markets in Liberia), poor or inadequate health systems, rainfall resulting to flooding, poverty
The population of the people in the Paynesville area: There are 6(six) political districts; estimated 400,000 populations, over 55 communities
The WASH program will bring sustainable water supplies, improved hygiene, and better sanitation practices to Soul Clinic Community, Paynesville City, within the Montserrado County catchment area
Planned Project Implementation
- Provide clean water to more people in the targeted communities through the installation of Boreholes
- Construct appropriate water infrastructure for enhancing groundwater recharge In the selected catchment areas
- Renovate, upgrade and/or construct appropriate drinking water infrastructure
- Implementation of water-saving technologies, through the construction of drainage pipes and water wells
- – Investigate and promote appropriate methods for household water treatment locally
- Constructing durable, sustainable latrines in schools, communities, and health centers
- Establish locality-level spare parts supply chains for water points
- Provision of community health education on sanitation and hygiene
- Train on operation and maintenance of constructed water infrastructure
- Community-based sanitation and hygiene promotion
- Hygiene promotion in schools
- Support to sanitation-related small business
- Amplify the voices of the users in decision-making about water use and management.
- Provide a knowledge hub through consolidation of a wide array of water and sanitation information and data
- Exchange lessons learned with other, similar projects
Develop Technical Papers - Organize fora for discussion and exchange
- Exchange lessons learned with other, similar projects
- Sustainability
