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Total funding goal: $51,000
Total funding to date: $0
Remaining goal: $51,000
Total Donors: 0
Chad Relief Foundation
The Chad Relief Foundation (CRF) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose objective is to provide assistance to refugees from the Central African Republic in south Chad and to the local population surrounding the refugee camps.
www.chadrelief.org
Project start date: 08/01/2011
Project completion date: 08/01/2012
Providing Solar Power for Lighting and Refrigeration in Southern Chad
TweetMaro Village, Chad
CRF in conjunction with CSSI, a Chadian NGO, has initiated a program to provide solar power for lighting and refrigeration at rural and UNHCR refugee health centers in southern Chad.
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Project Milestones
The first solar installation was completed at Beureuh Health center which serves Amboko and Gondje camps as well as 10 small villages in the area in December 2010. the second installation , at Dosseye camp, was completed in March 2011. The costs respectively were $15,300 and $15,200. These installations were inspected by a CRF delegation in May 2011 and were operating ans planned. They have enabled nurses at the health centers to provide treatment during hours of darkness that were not previously possible and, at the same time, have eliminated the drain on the health centers' budgets once caused by kerosene purchases.
The second phase of this program will provide similar facilities at health centers at Yaroungou and Moula camps and Maro village, which lies equidistant between these camps. The cost estimates total $51,000. Preliminary inspection of the Yaroungou, Moula and Maro sites has already been conducted.
The first (completed) phase affected a population of approximately
35,000 people. The second phase will serve approximately 21,000 people!
Background
CRF in conjunction with CSSE (Centre-ed-Support-en-Sante-Internationale), a Chadian NGO, has initiated a program to provide solar power for lighting and refrigeration at rural UNHCR refugee health centers in southern Chad. The program is designed to meet the needs of health centers that operate 24/7, many miles from the nearest electrical grid, and whose lighting and refrigeration are powered only by kerosene. Kerosene is dangerous, expensive and its supply is erratic in southern Chad. The solar facilities in each instance will (a) enable doctors and nurses to perform needed, sometimes lifesaving, procedures during hours of darkness and (b) enable the health cneters to divert the significant proportions of their budgets previously consumed by purchases of kerosene to acquiring badly needed medicines and medical equipment. The first (completed) phase affected a population of approximately 35,000 people. The second phase will serve approximately 21,000 people!
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