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What are your direct project costs in the countries where you work (in-country costs):

Urban slums of Dhaka and Chittagong City, Bangladesh
  • $30—safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for one child for life
  • $40—management training for a women’s community-based water committee
  • $350—drilling of a deep well and installation of a hand pump
  • $650—community toilet/shower block serving 25 families
  • $2,500— safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for an entire community for life
Communities in Oromia, Ethiopia
  • $10—cost of hygiene education to motivate a family to build their own pit toilet
  • $75—safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for one child for life
  • $115—establishment of a school hygiene-education program
  • $330—water management training for five village board members
  • $725—construction of a public water point serving 500 people
  • Up to $50,000— safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for an entire community for life
Communities in Oromia, Ethiopia
  • $40—household water storage basin and tap (‘pila’) for one family
  • $110—private, sanitary pour-flush toilet for one family
  • $160—safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for one child for life
  • $250—watershed/water-source protection training for 25 families
  • $500—2,000 feet of PVC pipe for a water distribution network
  • Up to $50,000— safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for an entire community for life
Sundarban Villages of West Bengal, India
  • $25—safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for one child for life
  • $65—private, sanitary toilet for one family $110—hand-pump maintenance toolkit for village water committee
  • $2,000—hand-drilling a deep water point and pump installation
  • $6,500— safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education for an entire community for life