The Cambodia Clean Water and Toilet Project is a small organisation that is raising the standard of health & hygiene by installing water bores with pumps & sanitary toilets in rural villages.

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It is a recently founded organisation initiated by Australian, Darrel Steer.

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Darrel is a retired accountant and business man who went to Cambodia in 2015 for a holiday.  While there, he saw the need for clean water and sanitation in a rural village near Siem Reap. 

     "The small villages seem to miss out on the assistance that large charitable organisations can provide.  Hence the focus has been on the smaller villages and the team liaise with the village leaders to determine which families are in most need.With support from village leaders, Darrel took action to raise the standard of health and hygiene for these village families by installing water bores with pumps and sanitary toilets."   Darrel Steer

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It relies 100% on volunteer fund raising and labour. Every dollar is put into the construction of bores, pumps and toilets.  There are no administration fees and hidden costs.

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To date, the 100th toilet has just been installed!

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The following is information retrieved from:

https://www.facebook.com/Cambodia-Clean-Water-Toilet-Project-904277549661676/

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There is no need so basic as having clean water to drink, but over half the population of Cambodian does not have access to clean water.  In the countryside, most people rely on water from rivers, streams and ponds. This water is often polluted and is a major cause of health issues in children. Also, the lack of sanitary toilets exacerbates the water problems.

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                                              This is the source of water for these children and their family. They also use the bush as their toilet.

 

To spend time in Cambodia is to be exposed to the plight of a people that have experienced so much tragedy in recent years and are literally re-building their country from scratch.  The land mine victims are the obvious casualties, the less obvious are those in the villages in the rural areas.

 

The Cambodia Clean Water and Toilet Project is a 'grassroots' organization founded by Darrel Steer in response to the needs seen in a rural village near Siem Reap in early 2015.  With support from village leaders, Darrel took action to raise the standard of health and hygiene for these village families by installing water bores with pumps and sanitary toilets.

 

Darrel directs the project from Cambodia and is assisted by two teams of locals from Siem Reap who are developing their own understanding and skills as well as generating earnings to support their own families.

 

This project provides the means for very poor villagers to improve their health, save the money that would be spent on medicines, re-focus on their children's schooling and give them hope for their future.  The installation costs are US$250 ($350 in Australian dollars) for a clean water bore with casing to protect the actual bore pipe, plus a cast iron pump and concrete base. For the installation of a septic tank toilet and building, it costs US$350 ($500 in Australian dollars).

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Darrel Steer is a retired professional and has the energy and the time to work in the villages. He has been relying on friends and businesses in Australia to become involved and provide the necessary funding. 100% of all donations go to the villagers.  There are no administration costs in these operations.  The project has been installing water bores with pumps and sanitary toilets since May 2015. 

The project team has installed 37 clean water bores and 62 septic tank toilets in the 22 months to March 2017.

 

All donations are acknowledged and as the installation proceeds, all donors are provided with regular photos of the process.

 

The project offers sustainable improvement in the villages.

Installing a water pump provides the villager with life-sustaining H2O.

Installing a septic tank toilet provides the hygiene structure they need to

survive.  The access to clean drinking water and having a septic tank

toilet are life changing events for these people.  The rural villagers' needs

are great, the project's biggest need is funding.

 

The small villages seem to miss out on the assistance that large charitable

organizations can provide.  Hence the focus has been on the smaller

villages and the team liaise with the village leaders to determine which

families are in most need.

 

                                                                                                  The project team has the means of determining who                                                                                                        are the poor families in local villages and the ones that                                                                                                    are in most need of some help.  All of this is done in full                                                                                                    consultation with these communities and their leaders.                                                                                                    We use local business to supply all materials, and have                                                                                                    two competent teams of locals who can drill and install                                                                                                    clean water bores as well as installing sanitary septic                                                                                                      tank toilets.

                                                                                                  The project team normally insists on the family making                                                                                                    some contribution, usually by helping with the drilling                                                                                                    or digging and providing the sand and sometimes the                                                                                                      cement. 

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