As we all anticipate the re-opening of schools in Liberia and the return of the kids that attend our school, the Board of Directors of the school is launching an emergency fundraising for a toilet for the kids.
The current toilet being used by the kids is a dilapidated, unhygienic, and unsafe two-door makeshift structure that is yards away from the school building. It is a pit-latrine put up as a temporary structure more than ten years ago.
When it rains, the water level increases and water fills the pit, making it nearly impossible for the kids and the staff to use it. Besides, the kids have had to be extra careful over the years before they accidentally fall into the pit. Moreover, authorities of the government agency responsible for education has warned us not to allow the kids to use it because it is unhygienic and unsafe.
As a result of all this, the Board has decided to fix a toilet within the main school building. The space is already available, as it was constructed as a residential building.
The Board is planning to cut a partition creating two toilets inside the building for the installation of two commodes, one for the boys and the other for the girls. The toilet will use a bio-digester septic tank, which makes use of a quite small septic tank space constructed using some special chemicals that make it difficult for the septic tank to easily get full.
The total cost of the toilet is estimated to be US$683, broken down as follows:
- Bio-digester==========================$400
- Two pcs of commodes @$60=============$120
- Two pcs of 4” pvc pipe @$12=============$24
- Three pcs of 4” tee @$4=================$12
- Two pcs of 4” pvc clean out=============$10
- One pc of 2” pvc pipe @$10============$10
- One m/s pvc glue @10================$10
- Two pcs of 4” pvc elbow @$4===========$8
- One bag of cement @$8===============$8
- One pc of 4”×2” pvc reducer @$4===$4
- One pc of 2” pvc elbow @2========$2
- Workmanship==================$75
As indicated, the total estimate for the kids’ toilet is $683.
We members of the Board are appealing to all of you out there to kindly help us raise the funds needed to fix the toilet for the kids before the school can re-open. We will very highly appreciate any financial or material contributions you make towards this project, as we don’t want the kids to suffer again this year from the lack of a good toilet to use.
Please help us help the kids. Please help the kids to get somewhere better to use. Please help us raise the funds to fix the toilet. We urgently need your help. Any contributions you make for the sake of the kids will be very much appreciated.
If possible, we would like to raise the funds by August 20 to give us time to complete the work before the school reopens for the new school year.
You may send your contribution directly to Paul Yeenie Harry in Liberia via MTN Lone Star Mobile Money transfer, using +231881895978, or to Lena and Anders Marner in Sweden, through PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=95NTAM63YT8WE. If you are in contact with Lena Marner in Sweden or Sissel Lavoll Martinsen in Norway, you can also send donations to them.
Please help us! Even if it’s $10 you wish to contribute, we will highly appreciate it because it will help us to raise the $683.
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