A. Vision. Our strategy is based on the traditional lifestyle of the people as a way of preserving the environment for future generations out of get us a. Global ideas on Facebook Twitter and detail. Access to clean water and sanitation is a human right according to the United Nations. Empty words for the People Living in the slums of Dar Es Salaam. They have neither. Its a vicious circle of poverty and disease. Without escaping poverty having a better life both of these things are related to whether there is a regulated sewage disposal up a fence or to hop. Around a thousand children under the age of five die every day because the polluted water. Daughter salaam tanzania is booming economic heart on the indian ocean it has an estimated population of four and a half million nobody is really certain. More and more people are moving here from rural locations all the time. Rich and poor live cheap by jowl. These conditions hold people back. Utica margot fights every day for Better Living conditions for the poor its a race against time. I love. When i miss fairfax up. Here i think takes a huge amount of time to get a residency permit or spare parts of records with the city council stuff. Nothing goes in a Straight Line everything is convoluted and you have to deal with lots of different people who all have to be included to just get a small step forward. I mean more and thats exhausting kleinschmidt funds again. As i understand. You took a margot works for border and Aid Organization from bremen germany which has an office in dar al salam. Since twenty Ten Development aid projects in several states have been overseen from here funded by International Donors such as the world. The key word in their philosophy is decentralised. Instead of big high tech projects they want simple solutions. Their idea is to have sewage from toilets run through an underground bio gas reactor where the water is cleaned as it runs through multiple chambers and a plant filter. The large facilities were familiar with in europe and the United States arent feasible in africa theyre too expensive and too complicated. And i want that over nothing but if you think about alternative solutions while still providing a good humane access to water and Sewage Services nation then i think it will be doable i thought everyone has to be included and be given a voice but what is the goal its not just about the construction and the amassed meant both of them and you have to think about the subsequent operation that these people are poor what operating costs are they able to pay for they should thats keeps cost. Low developed a bit of a time. You took a margot studied Water Management and has worked for the un. That experience helps her in her current job. But Dar Es Salaam presents her and her team with wholly new challenges. Its green and orange are the densely Populated Areas often slums without infrastructure only a small section of the city has a sewage system. The district and yellow have regular typhoid in colorado outbreaks. Seventy percent of the city is unplanned slums. More than three million inhabitants live like this. The only discernable structure is the chaos. Its a labyrinth of alleys and corners where you immediately lose your bearings. Huts that can only very euphemistically be called houses and rubbish everywhere. Yeah. Everyone channels their waste water down here untreated and froze their rubbish away with it. Anyone growing up here has got used to the stench of excrement. Open ditches replace a working sewage system. Cholera and typhoid are the norm. And diarrhoea are the everyday consequences of inadequate hygiene. Children in particular suffer under these conditions. According to the World Health Organization around two point four billion people dont have access to sanitation half of the population of tanzania lives like this. Around twenty four thousand tons and die every year from water borne diseases sixteen and a half thousand of them are children. For years the state didnt feel responsible for the slums they created virtually no infrastructure there by fuelling the existing poverty. The informal settlements as slums are called in politically correct terms continue to grow every day in an uncontrolled fashion. And every day more people leave rural areas to move to the city. One since. Well water source for dozens of families none of the huts here have their own access to water. On good days ali cool earns around one euro. Hired by the city council she sells Drinking Water to her neighbors for around ten cents a bucket. In return alley gets her own water for free but she has to carry every bucket more than one hundred meters to her hut. Yet they might tell them look upon getting the water every day by the bucket load is a challenge for me but its exhausting i have to plan the cooking and washing precisely my. Time on. Everything to do with water takes place in public. Alleys eldest daughter is washing the youngest. Sparingly because every drop has to be carried here. Only the latrine offers privacy. Allie and her children share it with three other families. For the older ones its also the bathroom. The latrine is generally speaking empty by rain. Gelato you from idea to during the rainy season everyone floods their latrines to empty them but that means my neighbours excrement runs past my house and the children have to walk through that doesnt matter. Time or do the fun were often sick my children keep getting typhoid cholera and skin problems oh you mean. This is why in my room im tucker. A widow she lives with nine children in one room. Twelve square metres of existential poverty everything she has. Whenever she or one of her children gets sick the calamity worsens. Its a vicious circle. I think that the ne him there are lots of poor people who live here and who have to buy expensive drugs when they get sick because they get diseases like cholera and typhoid and it also has an impact when people cant work with children cant go to school then they dont get an education and that impacts their ability to escape poverty and have a good life later on all that is connected to the lack of proper sewage facilities to get up a fence on the home. As a result the state loses around two hundred million in economic output every year. And the people pay with their health and their dignity. When asked who has to share their latrine with another family around half say yes. Only one in twenty four have a toilet of their own. The only place in Dar Es Salaam where latrines are emptied legally is where trucks can go. Thousands of liters per lorry. Untreated the sewage flows into plants that are basically just huge pools. The attempts to treat the sewage look desperate. The streets and alleyways in the slums are too narrow for trucks. This is where mathias milingo works sludge go is a Border Initiative in return for a fee malenka and his colleagues remove sewage from around fourteen thousand households. So. Mitigates the pungent stench. The largest obstacles are removed. In the past all the residents waited for the rainy season to flood their latrines they emptied them illegally. Today those who can afford the fee wait for melinda. Melindas tractor is a real alternative. Bill gates the founder of microsoft agrees. The bill and Melinda GatesFoundation Supports the project with a Million Dollars to spread the idea around the world. The sludge go program is so successful that border is also applying the principle in india and asia. The sewage flows into a small Treatment Plant where its biologically cleaned generating bio gas in the process. Its a model for slums all around the world and its Good Business from a ts milingo. Let the mining outfit down mr milingo likes to say that when he set up this shop and the friends and relatives and people from the Community Asked him what his business was and he said he emptied latrines then people would look at him like he was crazy but why would he do that how could he possibly spend his time like that. Thanks to his work milingo can send his children to school. A shrewd businessman he has achieved modest wealth. He can offer his family a life without deprivation and his children a future. The board of project has given him a way out of the slums. And you will soon get a lot when i am like an engineer or a doctor who helps people to lead better lives at first a lot of people made fun of the. You know nobodys laughing anymore my family and i have a good life my children are getting an education and i was a my money properly she was already now a particular protein and there are now people who want to do the same thing as many of us she. He because the. Water is also a central issue for the students at the Primary School in Dar Es Salaam. Fit for school is a project run by. A German Organization for International Collaboration and unicef. On the curriculum hygiene an important tool in preventing cholera and typhoid. The message is clear those who dont wash their hands get sick. Dirty water kills people in tanzania. The hygiene lesson comes at the start of every day. Children who have hardly any water at home or who dont have it regularly have to learn the proper handwashing technique and the use of soap. For. The length of the song tells the children how long they should wash their hands for. Its playful get absolutely vital. With the onset of puberty girls. Particularly school if they dont have sanitary facilities because its too unpleasant for them. Primary school even offers its students sanitary products. Its an effective measure in reducing the number of girls leaving school. Education is a way out of poverty for tanzanias children. But only those who are not sick can get an education and with it better prospects for the future. However without the support of politicians this future is unachievable. You to come aagot has an important meeting with the water authorities. She masks her nerves with a smile. Personal relationships are hugely important in africa to drive projects ahead. The technical director is an important decision maker. His attitude as of yet is unknown. But any worries are unfounded. In an area where people there dont have what i taught so when you ask them what do you need first i would tell you were Drinking Water. And now ive done a lot to the Drinking Water but now it comes to where we send this water to its being used how to dispose of it so this is now becoming a challenge we have been experiencing an outbreak of corn and water borne diseases so for sure once we improve some tension. Which is free of course about of all diseases so the manpower the time to use efficiently in a day economic activities. The rapid rate of population growth threatens to evaporate any governmental efforts into nothing. Obviously with promotion. Rising people are changing and they see that there is a need to control family sizes the ones that will improve Medicine Service everyone should enjoy it to mikes nonsense if you still have a good number im a big number for big size and families will promise to be there so theyre trying to control some of the reserve relationship with a woman to sanitation and a better life and the family sizes. The problem doesnt start with sewage the supply of Drinking Water is often difficult there are pipes everywhere. In those places the water has to be brought to people by trucks. How well that works depends on personal contacts even for the g. I. C. Thanks to these personal connections some problems are now a thing of the past. God is all it is a lot and there used to be these private lorries got their water from anywhere like a salty well or a small stream which was completely uncertain Water Quality them eyes and theyd sell the water for high prices that was a disaster for the poor because they had no other choice. So maybe. The lorries now deliver clean water. The Delivery Service is a Business Model that can both make money and take the pressure off the authorities. And stood during has worked for the g. R. I. Z. In africa for decades. He almost knows the continent and the People Better than his german home. Clean water has long been his focal point. Its a luxury for many residents in Dar Es Salaam around two Million People still dont have access to Drinking Water. In many cases sewage from leaky latrines polluted the groundwater or else it was too deep to drill a well thats why the people are grateful for the water kiosk g. R. I. Z. Project. Ten thousand liters three to four deliveries of water per day just in this location as a water delivery or frederick e. Pen they works closely with the authorities. This Public PrivatePartnership Project gives the pembury a secure income. And the state water supplier has one less problem to worry about. The gates at g. R. I. Z. Have the behest of the German Government has supported the Water Ministry to regulate the Public Private partnership so that a Water Quality in the price are good for you to go for now have clean water at an affordable price and that means they can develop and send their children to school instead of spending their time fetching water in thats the foreigners taking on some of us out to horn. Every day three thousand households put their buckets under the tap ten buckets of water cost one euro. Fresh water is a blessing but many families cant afford it. In addition its the job of women and girls to lug the heavy buckets. Its a daily chore for this twelve year old. Several hundred metres and during term time. Thats one way even clean water can prevent someone from getting an education. And. Girls are particularly vulnerable as they have to take on household duties from an early age. That. Come argos work takes energy her days are long and the citys problems and less. Basically every stream in Dar Es Salaam is abused as a sewer and a landfill. In the rainy season the pollution is swept out to sea. Although this form of waste and sewage disposal is illegal nobody need fear punishment. Give t. M. Doesnt start there although this district has two city Council Employees who work for the Health Authorities theyre responsible for forty five thousand people its impossible the other four stand with us on murder he says. The malala cooler was a landfill to up until recently. The change only came as is often the case in africa through foreign aid. Since the construction of a decentralized sewage plant put in place by border and g. R. I. Z. The situation has improved. The sewage from hor thousand households doesnt flow untreated into the stream anymore. And the amount of waste has also decreased. Instead the sewage ends up in a bio gas reactor. Thats off to the us and either come the waste water from the bio gas plant flows from there into our anaerobic filter which contains different chambers where the organic components are broken down by bacteria and we used a filtration material from the Steel Industry and freedom of the i cannot. Its very porous and well suited to allow the bacteria in the waste water to settle and to speed up the decomposition of the biological components that are still in the waste water. Stuff and for one time. Running the plant is easy and its done by local people. For a border thats an important aspect for guaranteeing success. The cleaning effect from chamber to chamber demonstrates the efficiency of the plant. We treated nutrient rich waste water is used to irrigate a banana plantation. The trees are bearing fruit for the first time. An important success for the project. The operator of the Treatment Plant was skeptical at first but now hes convinced. That im calm i was the income from the banana plantations is an additional income for the operator we want to show the community that you can incorporate waste water into a cycle and that you can do other useful things with it when. Im the one hundred on that of a tough income. Another advantage is that the plant also produces bio gas for cooking. The amount covers the daily demand and completely replaces the need for charcoal. The family can save its pennies and the bio gas option also makes their daily life easier. The efficiency of the sewage plants is controlled by border in a special small lab. Despite the simplicity of the system the bacteria in the filtration chambers react sensitively to chemical impurities. By constantly optimizing the process the applications are increased. The future brings new technical challenges. The first residential areas for the gradually growing middle class are being built on the outskirts of Dar Es Salaam. These areas will also have the centralized sewage Treatment Plants through borda but on a much larger scale. Here. The overhaul the system can be used in different combinations. The world bank now wants to support fifty such plans to improve the situation in the city. There wont be latrines here. Instead hard work will go into laying sewers. Its slow laborious work. Its clear why retrofitting the huge slums with proper sewers is an impossible task. Living space for small families. There are two childrens bedrooms at most. Thatll remain a dream for allie corba. Shell be staying in her hut just as she has done for the past thirty years. Those who are poor live hand to mouth. They can only go shopping when the moneys there. Theres never the money to buy much. I want. A recipe charcoal grill thats alys entire kitchen the family has nothing not even the embers for the fire even they come from a neighbor. One hot meal a day theres usually not more than that and even thats a luxury. Their own toilet clean water those are far off dreams for this family for women men young men and women. Even in better sanitary conditions alley wouldnt manage to escape her suffering. Poverty is holding her captive. One of the reasons is the large number of children five to six children per family is the average in tanzania. If ones and we have such good lives in europe its perfect yet when you see things like this its not perfect for the majority have nothing im driven by this sense of injustice that a small percentage have a relatively good access here. But the majority have been forgotten there was forget. And the forgotten ones are growing in number. By two thousand and fifty the population of africa will double. This rapid increase impacts the peoples access to water and is decisive for their prosperity or poverty. The United Nations wanted to half the number of people without water by two thousand and fifteen. 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