Left: One of the standpipes. Right: Laying the pipe. Photo: Courtesy of the Quaker Congo Partnership.
Clean water for hospital in Congo
Water pipes now serve a hospital in Abeka
Clean water has reached the hospital at Abeka in the Congo, thanks to support that has been given by the Quaker Congo Partnership (QCP).
Fundraising began in 2014 and work on the £70,000 project started in August 2015. There are now thirteen standpipes serving the hospital, the school and all parts of the village.
Supervising engineer M’Munga Kabwe Jean explained that the standpipes were situated ‘so they are accessible from all parts of the village but outside the houses of people who will keep a careful eye on them’.
The next stage will involve equipping the hospital with showers, washbasins and more toilets. Water now flows from taps when previously it had to be carried uphill from polluted sources.
