D-1766    Uganda - Kitgum Boreholes Drilling $130,232 This project is hosted in a Future Vision Pilot District and is in the process of being moved to the Global Grants Website. Non-Pilots Districts should stay in the current section of this website and work with Non-Pilot Districts only. You can search for projects without this warning message. Pilot Districts should go to the Global Grants Section and work with Pilot Districts only. This section is a new section of this website with projects only from Pilot Districts. Rotary club of Kitgum is located in the heart of war ravaged northern Uganda bordering Sudan. Access to clean water by the returned former Internally Displaced Persons is at 25% at the village level as most of the services were concentrated at the camp during the insurgency. The gaps as noted by the district water officer is about 217 boreholes needed to cover the entire population of Kitgum district that covers Chua and Lamwo counties with a growing population of 400,000 inhabitants with population growth of 3% annually. This water project shall cover drilling of 10 new boreholes that shall cover 10 villages in Chua and Lamwo counties respectively. Primary Host Partner in the Project Country Club: Kitgum District: 9200 Primary Contact: Godfrey Binaisa Lodik Email: prohisa@gmail.com Check all projects from: [District 9200] [Kitgum Rotary Club] [Godfrey Binaisa Lodik] Primary International Partner Outside the Project Country Club: Anaheim Hills District: 5320 Primary Contact: Orin Abrams Email: aysh@earthlink.net Check all projects from: [District 5320] [Anaheim Hills Rotary Club] [Orin Abrams] Proposed Financing Primary Host Sponsor Rotary Club/District Rotary Club of Kitgum $100 Additional Rotary Clubs/Districts Additional Sponsor Club $86,722 Amount requested from the Rotary Foundation $43,410 Total $130,232 Status and Progress Information Dropped This project has been dropped. This is probably due to the loss of contact with the Coordinating Club. Project listed for the 2011-12 Rotary Year. For the pass 22 years northern Uganda has experienced sever conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army and the Uganda People Defence Forces of the Ugandan Government. The people of northern Uganda predominantly the Acholi were mostly the victim. Infrastructure and many lives were destroyed, schools burn down and desk used by the soldiers for cooking. hence,as there is relative peace and calm at the moment, there is need to rebuild the lost life and water points for better health. <25-Mar-10> System Entry Creation of project page. <25-Mar-10> by Godfrey Binaisa Lodik Rotary Club of Kitgum is still a New Club (One Year old) with a lot of needs from the community as the community survey indicates. <4-Jun-10> System Entry Project carried over to the 2010-11 Rotary Year. <13-Jan-11> System Entry Pledge of by Orin Abrams of the Rotary Club of Anaheim Hills, District 5320. <4-Apr-11> System Entry Project carried over to the 2011-12 Rotary Year. <2-Jan-12> System Entry Project dropped because it is hosted by a Future Vision Pilot District.