Cameroon Water Project

Peter Njodzeka
CEO/Founder
Life & Water Development Group - Cameroon

Hi all,

My name is Peter Njodzeka, CEO/Founder of Life and Water Development Group - Cameroon working in partnership with Thirst Relief International. I am very happy to have come across TRI, because through them, we are able to change the lives and improve the health of hundreds of people and we are going to get millions of people saved. In Cameroon, clean water is a major problem especially in the local communities in the remote areas where there is no access to clean portable drinking water. LWDGC and TRI have been able to sign a long term agreement to help the communities in Cameroon and to introduce and implement the bio sand filter project to the 250 tribes of Cameroon. Bio Sand Filter is very new in Cameroon and we are very happy to have been the first NGO to introduce them to our communities. TRI have proven their work to many communities around the world and I think coming right to Cameroon is necessary because millions of Cameroonians especially women and children die everyday because they don't have access to clean water. With Bio Sand Filters, even the poor people in the forest are able to have good health.

We work very closely with the women associations of our communities because women are the source of development in every community, and we have been successful in every project with women groups and associations. We also have the mean who are more active, but with women, we strongly believe they are the able to bring a change once decided.

In local community in Cameroon, we are presently implementing the sand filter project funded by Thirst Relief, and the entire community, the old and the young are very active working together with LWDGC in the implementation process of their sand filters. Although there are other issues raised in the community, but our first target is to see that every household has access to clean drinking water i.e. owns a bio sand filter and use them properly. We have enough technicians constructing these filters, but we make sure we train the technicians in every community that we work so that they can be able to continue with the construction and expand to other communities.

Our strategy of implementation is working very well. Our believe is that once a filter is given to a family for free, some families might not know the value of it, and so LWDGC came up with a strategy that, because our communities normally have streams with sand and stones in them, we ask every household to produce the quantity of sand and concrete available for the construction and I was moved and happy to see very elderly people struggling to bring out the sand and concrete from the streams, and by so doing, we recognized how much they need these filters and we also believe that once assisted in the construction of your filter, you will take a very good care of it once installed in your home. But if we just build them for free and give everything for free, many families will not use them properly and children might not be able to even use them.

Cameroon is a very nice place and LWDGC is honored partnering with TRI to make this a reality by changing and improving the lives of those in need everywhere we go.

You can view the photos from Nkuv where we are presently working by clicking the following link: http://picasaweb.google.fr/penjoka/NkuvBioSandFilterProject
Thanks and you can contact me at any time for any question or advice.

Yours

Peter Njodzeka
CEO/Founder
Life & Water Development Group - Cameroon
P.O. Box 30370
Tel.: +237 77 71 62 88
E-mail: info@lwdgc-africa.org
Websit: www.lwdgc-africa.org

Photos from our bio sand filter project in Nkuv:

Ready to take off from Nkuv to Kumbo

McRodney Dinyuy, my first and only son

New sand filter

Fitting the pipe/elbows to pour a sand filter

He just got his new sand filter from TRI

Family and their new filter from TRI

Nkuv need good roads or repairs

No good roads at all

My son McRodney Dinyuy

McRodney would like to see a better world

Peter Njodzeka (left) LWDG Founder and Bio Sand Filter technicians, Cameroon

Mod of transportation of tools from site to site












A mother with her new born watch their filter constructed

Mrs Kongla and her twins and son got a filter from TRI

A Child babysitting a child

Mrs Bronhilda and her two weeks baby got a filter from TRI

They could not believe it was donated for free by TRI

Peter and Nkuv Nursery School children and their filter

Watching at their filter construction preparations
Contact us for more info and photos from Cameroon: info@lwdgc-africa.org