Water Resources

Rock Catchment Dams

We have received funding from a charitable foundation to build a large river dam between Lokitaung and Lowarengak. The cost of the project is £55,000 and will provide water for around 16,000 people and their animals.

£55,000

Wind-Pumps

This project will provide clean, fresh water to two communities on the shores of Lake Turkana at Nachakui and Kaito. The project involes drilling a deep well and building two windpumps providing up to 100,000 litres of water daily from each well into eight water storage tanks. This will enable the cultivation of five acres of land, enabling the communities to become more self-sufficient in food production. The pumps will provide water for 1,300 people in Kaito, and 2,000 people in Nachukui. It will provide water for a nutritional unit in Kaito, a primary school and dispensary in Nachukui, tree plantations and mobile clinics.

£37,000

Two earth pan dams will be excavated in the northern area of Turkana. These are shallow wells that will hold up to 10 million cubic metres of water for nomadic families and animals. Each dam will provide water for approx 3,200 - 4,800 people.

£26,800

Nutritional Units

Nutritional Units, Turkana

This is New Ways primary projects which brings nutritional healthcare to under six year olds amongst the semi-nomadic communities living around Lake Turkana and Kaikor, in the Turkana region of northern Kenya. The aim is to reduce the high infant mortality rate prevalent in the area by providing basic food, while also providing pre-school education. The project began in October 1998 to support seven schools in the region of Nariokotome on the shores of Lake Turkana. By July 2000 we were supporting 12 schools and the project was again expanded in 2002 bringing the total number of schools supported by New Ways to seventeen.

We now support 19 nutritional units in Turkana. These units provide a healthy diet and basic education for young children in danger of malnutrition. The children are fed 2 meals a day, five days a week and learn the basic skills they need to move onto primary school and to cope with life in Turkana, including essential health and hygiene, care for water and the environment. The schools are also establishing fruit tree plantations and vegetable gardens (shambas), so the children learn to grow produce to supplement their diet. We also invest in developing the skills of the teachers and ensure they have the tools they need to help the children

£90,500

Student Sponsorship

Student Sponsorship Programme

This is another long term programme for New Ways and has been in operation since 1999. Education is the key to development and provides opportunities for young people. The aim is to support students so they can receive a practical training that is relevant to the local situation and they can use to contribute towards the wider development of their own people. In 2005/6 we have committed to supporting twenty students in Turkana and five in Kisumu, in western Kenya. The students are both boys and girls aged between eight and eighteen in primary and secondary education.

We are also supporting one student in Mozambique to study law at university.

The programme covers school fees, equipment and transport where appropriate.

£11,900

Mother and Child Centres

Centre for Street Children, Cochabamba, Bolivia

This project provides a centre with accommodation, education and therapy for street children. The aim is to reintegrate the children into their families or to enable them to move into a special boarding school, so a large element of the project is preparing families and follow-up to make sure that the children are successfully moved off the streets.

£12,000

Mother and Child Centre, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

The healthy development of the child up to 6 years old is crucial for later development and a vital public health priority. This centre ensures that children from poor backgrounds have an adequate diet and access to pre-school education and play, and parents receive support in basic health, hygiene and child development.

£13,000

Agricultural Projects

Fruit Tree Nurseries, Lokitaung, Turkana

This project provides a resource of fruit trees and an outreach project, to enable local plantations to develop in the project area, and to create a resource to improve the nutrition of the local population.

£4,000

Poultry Farm, Khayega, Western Kenya

Provide a sustainable poultry farm to supply eggs and hens for local people. This is the start of a larger farming project to act as a model farm for the local community.

£3,600

Generator for Outstation, Lobur, Northern Turkana

To provide a generator for a remote area of northern Turkana, close to Sudan. This will act as the stepping-stone for other projects to develop.

£3,000

Tractor, Lokitaung, Turkana

The tractor will be used for a variety of purposes in both agriculture and construction.

£30,718

School Infrastructure

Primary School Buildings, Nariokotome Anam, Turkana

This project is to build an office, staff houses and a staff room at the primary school at Nariokotome Anam on the shore of Lake Turkana

£5,000

Development of Community Leaders

Adult Literacy, Nariokotome

Ten adults receive literacy and communication skills training as part of a wider training programme to enable them to gain the skills to become community leaders and project initiators and managers.

£1,622

Womens Co-operative, Lodwar, Turkana

This project is to equip ten groups that have been set up as women's co-operatives with facilities to produce and market bread in the Lodwar area

£8,800

Community Centre, Sussendenga, Mozambique

The project is to provide furniture in a Community Centre completed in 2005 in Sussendenga, western Mozambique. The centre is designed to act as a meeting room and base for the development of further projects, so that aspiring community leaders and project managers and workers can meet together.

£3,500

Total project cost 2005: £306,440

Breakdown of Project Expenditure 2005