Water Project Launched in Eastern Deanery-CODEP
Communities and Parishioners in the Eastern Deanery are set to benefit from a new project aimed at digging water sources to curb water scarcity in the area and the targeted parishes with no sources of water.
Water Project Launched in Eastern Deanery-CODEP
By Baraka John
Communities and Parishioners in the Eastern Deanery are set to benefit from a new project aimed at digging water sources to curb water scarcity in the area and the targeted parishes with no sources of water.
On Friday 24th, 2023, the Catholic Organization for Peace and Development (CODEP) launched the digging of boreholes (hand pump water) in Maridi and Mambe Payam for the host communities.
At the launch of the project, the community was overshadowed with happiness when CODEP struck the ground marking the beginning of digging a hand pump water (borehole) both in Maridi and Mambe Payam.
If completed, the borehole will help thousands of members of the community and the Church activities to move on well.
Mr. Charles William Tako a payam administrator at Mambe, loaded the initiative by CODEP to dig a borehole for the community of Payam, citing water scarcity as one of the major challenges facing the community in the area.
Vaida Karama chair lady of Mambe Payam said, in the whole of the Payam there is only one borehole that feeds thousands of community members which is not enough. She said, “women who mostly travel long distances in search of water, will now have close access to a water source when the digging of the borehole ends”.
Similarly, CODEP also launched the digging of a borehole at our lady of Fatima Maridi Parish, this happened shortly after the launching of the coordination office.
According to the deputy director for CODEP Ngbanisa David Ariyo, CODEP plans to dig three boreholes in the Eastern Deanery, one in Mambe, Maridi, and another one in Moruko. David said similar activities are expected to take place in Central and Western Deaneries.
Maridi County Deputy Executive Director Kamaldin Bashir Juma urged the community and the Church authority in Maridi to support the digging of the water sources. He emphasized the maintenance of the water source once it’s completed for it to stay longer and help people.
