Construction of Bathhouse at Tajik Boarding School
Situation
The Vakhsh District Boarding School provides education for 280 children from socially vulnerable families, and provides boarding for another 200 young children. The school's bathroom and most of its facilities had not been renovated since the Soviet era and were not functioning. Several years ago, with the help of the international community, a small, unheated warehouse was adapted as a temporary changing room. Children bathed in an iron tank adjacent to the warehouse. Finally, the warehouse was demolished to create a new, sound structure and a decent bathing facility was constructed.
What We Did
In Fall 2007, the bathroom renovation at the Vakhsh District Boarding School in the Khatlon region of Tajikistan was announced complete, with an official ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate this special occasion. The US Ambassador to Tajikistan, Tracey Jacobson and the US Department of State Director of Humanitarian Programs, Gerald Oberndorfer, were on site to cut the ribbon.
The bathhouse renovation was implemented by Counterpart's Community and Humanitarian Assistance Program (CHAP) in Tajikistan in close cooperation with the US Department of State (EUR/ACE) and Physicians with Heart, a partnership of the American Academy of Family Physicians and American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, and Heart to Heart International, in the framework of Counterpart's Small Reconstruction Project initiative.
The project helped resolve one of the most urgent problems of the boarding school by creating a bathing facility where 280 students and 30 school staff will have access to hot water and showers. In addition to the reconstruction project, Physicians with Heart, through its Children's Project and in cooperation with in-country partners, Project Hope International and the non-governmental organization Munis, based in Gissar, donated bunk beds and a washing machine to the school and provided all boarding school students with mattresses, pillows, quilts, clothing, hygiene and sanitation items and a one-year's-worth supply of multivitamins.
October 30th, 2007 | Tags: bathrooms, reconstruction, school, Small Reconstruction Project, SRP, SRP Tajikistan, Tajikistan | Category: Impact Stories
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