Project Release Date : 1 Nov 2024​
Project Leader : Alyuprayitno Umbu Makaborang (Kawan Ino)
Project Type : Proyek ini dilaksanakan oleh Yayasan Kawan Baik Indonesia atas nama mitra kami yang memberikan dana hibah untuk proyek ini.
Duration : 3 months

Laindatang Village is located in East Sumba Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. This village is located about 25 km from the city of Waingapu, the capital of East Sumba Regency. This village comprises 1 RW and 2 RTs, with a population of 151 people in 34 heads of families from the Laindatang Mbatakapidu Village hamlet.

For over two and a half years, the Fair Future Foundation has been actively involved in Laindata and Hambarita—two remote villages that do not have access to clean water, electricity, or health services. We first intervened through the Zero Malaria program, offering extensive malaria prevention screening, treatment, and education. Next up is our Water Connection initiative, which involves building several 5,000-liter capacity water reservoirs, sanitation, and handwashing facilities at Laindatang School to support 78 children.

TODAY'S CONDITION

Limited access to clean water
To meet their need for clean water, the people of Lain come to use rainwater during the rainy season. Harvesting rainwater is stored in reservoirs, but some houses still don't have reservoirs, they maximize their small containers to harvest rainwater. In the dry season they usually take water from Kulub (an artificial water reservoir in a sunken rock) or buy tank water from a water supply company.

When ordering tengki water, access conditions are quite difficult, both in the rainy season and the dry season, not many companies are willing to deliver the water there. Often the tank water that arrives at the location is no longer full, because it spills when the vehicle is shaken on the way to the village of Laindatang.

PROBLEM

1. Lack of Clean Water Storage Facilities
   Residents in Laindatang do not have adequate storage facilities for clean water. As a result, they rely on collecting water in jerry cans and must walk to distant springs daily to meet their basic needs.
2. Absence of a Rainwater Harvesting System as an Alternative Source of Clean Water
   The lack of a rainwater harvesting system limits residents’ ability to save clean water. Such a system could provide a crucial alternative source, especially during the dry season, ensuring a more stable household water supply.

OUR ACTION

Ferrocement Water Tank and Rainwater Harvesting System
This project aims to build seven ferro-cement reservoirs with a capacity of 5,000 liters, equipped with a rainwater harvesting system with filtration to ensure the quality of the water stored is clean and safe for consumption. This system stores filtered rainwater as a water source, especially during water shortages in the dry season.

7 Units, 5000 Liter Ferrocement Water Storage
Ferrocement, as an effective technological innovation with economical materials and an easy work process, is a solution for water storage in rural areas. This project also involves citizen participation to transfer knowledge for sustainability.

7 Units, Rainwater harvesting system
The rainwater harvester created in this project is the installation of a rainwater gutter using a 4 inch paralon pipe connected to a water filter leading to a reservoir.

7 Units, Rainwater filtration system
The water filtration used is a simple or applied technology which consists of two stages The first stage is cutting the water channel and installing a filter with a mesh to block large impurities. The second stage channels the water into a large pipe containing a float ball which blocks the flow when full. This stage holds the dust and then directs clean water to the reservoir.

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