The Integrated Hinda Project

 

AREA OF INTERVENTION

RESULTS AT DECEMBER 2013

Primary education

  • 5 primary schools refurbished and equipped with educational materials
  • 4 schools in the process of being refurbished
  • 5 schools involved in activities to increase hygiene-health awareness
  • 5 schools involved in capacity building activities directed at local teachers
  • 850 meals a day provided

Access to water and energy

  • Analyses performed on the quality of the water provided by the wells built as part of the project
  • Training and raising awareness activities on managing the water supply through a local NGO (IPHD)
  • 12 water wells built, 4 of which electric and powered by solar panels

Community health

  • 1 community health centre renovated and equipped with medical equipment and supplies
  • 4 community health centres in the process of being renovated
  • Purchase and supply of a new ambulance
  • Implementation of vaccination campaigns and campaigns for the protection of maternal health
  • Training of medical personnel and the creation of management committees for the health centers
  • People who have received health assistance in the Cuvette and Niari departments: 9,020 women, 13,366 children
  • People who have received health assistance in the Kouilou department: 1,314 women, 2,028 children

Agriculture

  • Work has begun on building the Centre d’Appui Technique et de Ressources Professionnelles (CATREP), a training centre to improve agro-zoological technical knowledge and skills
  • Publicity for and participation in the launch of projects to demonstrate farming techniques, Développement des techniques des Champs Ecoles des Paysans (CEP)
  • Works launch and organization of the management committees
  • Raising awareness among agricultural producers and organization of a local network of community warehouses for the sale of agricultural products and inputs (Magasin d’Approvisionnements en Intrants et de Commercialisation des Produits Agricoles - MAICOPA)