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HSBC Water Programme

Pre-intervention visit, Nigeria 2012

Date: November 2012

Name: Etenyi Village, Olo-Obande Village and Ugbolojor Village, Benue State, Nigeria

Staff: Oluseyi Abdulmalik, Brenda Mcilwraith, Steve Melia

Partner: Ado Local Government Authority

Outline: WaterAid visited three rural, pre-intervention areas in Benue state, Nigeria. The communities rely on farming produce for the local market. The trip included a school visit. In most cases the water sources are faulty and are far away from homes so dirty water is collected from nearby streams. Household latrines are not common.

Etenyi Village

Interview 1: Theresa Ale, 40

Family: Married with 4 children.

Description: Red layered top, black headscarf and cream skirt with red, yellow and blue triangles. Film shot outside of her home with cutaways to her working and market day.

Story Outline: Chili farmer Theresa Ali, 40, from Etenyi village, Benue State, on how safe water would help her business. She goes to the market to sell chillies and okra in order to buy snuff, her primary trade, which she processes and sells. There is a borehole near her home but due to the size of the community they have to fetch water from the stream for washing. This can take up to three hours a day.

Key Themes:

➢ Lack of safe drinking water

➢ Sanitation

➢ Livelihood (farming and market day)

Asset Details

Interview type: Filmed interview with written transcription available

Photos

➢ Range of photos available including shots with her young child outside of her home and action shots of her working at her farm.

Film

➢ Complete long interview

➢ Short 1m 4s edit available

Supporting Documents

➢ Photo caption spreadsheet

➢ Interview transcript

Interview 2: Mercy Otokpa, 23

Description: Multi-coloured striped top, braided hair

Story Outline: Mercy Otokpa, 23 a, teacher at Etenyi primary school. Mercy was posted to the village school. At first she was annoyed about the placement, but now finds the work more fulfilling. The school has two broken down bore wells and no toilets; she thinks more young teachers would be attracted to working there if there were better facilities.

Key Themes:

➢ Hygiene

➢ Toilets

➢ Sanitation

➢ Poor facilities in school

➢ Impact on children and education

Asset Details

Interview type: Filmed interview with written transcript available

Photos

➢ Profile shots of Mercy standing outside of her classroom and working shot sof Mercy teacher her class are available.

Film

➢ Long interview footage

➢ Short 51s edit

Supporting Documents

➢ Photo caption spreadsheet

➢ Interview transcription

Olo-Obande Village

Interview 3: Mary Acheo, 28

Description: White top, patterned dress

Story Outline: Mary Acheo, 28, lives in Olo-Obande, a rural community in Ado local government area, Benue, north-central Nigeria. Mary makes and sells pap, a traditional food that requires a lot of water to make. But in Olo-Obande there is only one borehole, which is currently broken down.

Key Themes:

➢ Livelihood (farming)

➢ Lack of access to safe, clean water

➢ Dirty water

Asset Details

Interview type: Filmed interview with written transcript available

Photos

➢ A range of photos are available of Mary taken outside of her home. There are also action photos of Mary preparing her produce and cleaning.

Film

➢ Long interview footage

➢ Short 1m 21s edit

Supporting Documents

➢ Photo caption spreadsheet

➢ Interview transcription

Ugbolojor Village

Interview 4: Reverend Samuel and Victoria Otse

Family: Five children; the youngest child is six years old and the eldest, nineteen.

Description:

➢ Reverend Samuel – short sleeve shirt, pen in top pocket.

➢ Victoria – blue, red and white tight top, patterned dress

Story Outline: Victoria Otse, 45, collects water from Okpowu – a river, during the dry season, taking a cart with several jerry cans. Victoria is the mother of five children and married to Reverend Samuel Otse (secretary of the WASHCOM committee). Their youngest child is 6 years and the eldest, 19. Victoria and Samuel grow palm fruit, yam, cassava, rice, benniseed and mushrooms. During the rainy season she and her family collect rain water and store it inside.

Key Themes:

➢ Dirty water

➢ Sanitation

➢ Hygiene

➢ Lack of access to clean water

➢ Livelihood

➢ Dangerous slopes to collect water

Asset Details

Interview type: Filmed interview with written transcript available

Photos

➢ A range of photos are available of Samuel and Victoria outside their home. Photos also available of Victoria doing her daily chores.

Film

➢ Long interview footage

➢ Short 2m 24s edit

Supporting Documents

➢ Photo caption spreadsheet

➢ Interview transcription

Interview 5: Faith Otse, 28

Family: Husband - Joseph, 35, four children ages: twelve, ten, seven and five.

Description: red shirt, blue dress

Story Outline: Faith explains the difficulties she faces without access to water and how this affects her livelihood as a farmer and tailor.

Key Themes:

➢ Livelihood

➢ Lack of access to clean water

➢ Sanitation

➢ Hygiene

Asset Details

Interview type: Filmed interview with written transcript available

Photos

➢ A range of photos are available of Faith at both her home doing chores and at work on the sewing machine.

Film

➢ Long interview footage

➢ Short 1m 07s edit

Supporting Documents

➢ Photo caption spreadsheet

➢ Interview transcription

Other Case Studies

Etenyi Village

Name: Christian O Okpor

Description: White t-shirt, green trousers, forty five year old male.

Family: Married, ten children, one grandchild.

Story outline: Christian talks about the poor water and sanitation situation that he, his family and his community face. A main issue Christian highlight is the queue to fetch water from the one nearby borehole which attracts people from kilometres around. Christian gives an insight into the challenges he faces as a farmer, trying to make enough money just to put his children through school. Christian explains that saving money for the future is simply not an option at the moment.

Key Themes:

➢ Livelihood

➢ Sanitation

➢ Queuing to fetch water

➢ School fees

➢ Not saving money

Asset Details

Interview type: Filmed interview with written transcript available

Photos:

➢ Two profile pictures of Christian are available

Film:

➢ Raw, unedited footage available

Supporting Documents

➢ Photo caption spreadsheet

➢ Interview transcription

Potential follow-up opportunities

Theresa Ale – Is Theresa able to make good use of the time she saves not fetching water? Does Theresa have more time to cultivate and prepare her crops for the market? Has this led to an increased income?

Mercy Otokpa – Has the increased access to clean water affected the school children for the better? Are the children able to wash and present themselves well for school now? Do children still have to defecate in the open?

Mary Acheo – Has improved access to clean water affected Mary’s pap production? Does Mary’s pap look clean and fresh as a consequence of clean water? Are more people interested in buying Mary’s produce at the market?

Reverend Samuel and Victoria Otse – Does Victoria still have to make the precarious journey to the stream to collect water? Does she now spend more time at her business due to the time saved not fetching water? Do they still have to store water in their home? Have their crops improved their yield?

Faith Otse – Does she have more time now to work as a tailor and therefore gain more custom? Is Faith able to save money?

Christian O Okpor – Is Christian now able to produce more crops? Has extra production led to an increased income from the market? Is the new water source as crowded as the other one? Does Christian have any chance now to save money for the future?

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