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Strengthening access to water and hygiene conditions for the inhabitants of the village of Amalou

  • Winner 2026

Eau Soleil Rhône Alpes

Context

In the province of Taroudant, At southern Morocco (Souss-Massa region), the Amalou village has been facing a water scarcity, aggravated by drought. Its 235 inhabitants have no drinking water network. They depend on a community reservoir, originally supplied by a spring intended for agriculture, with no guarantee of water quality. Since the 2023 earthquake, the municipality has been supplying this reservoir by tanker truck twice a week. The chore of fetching water essentially relies on...women and girls, and can take up to four hours a day. The village also lacks’'sanitary facilities. To address these difficulties, the village association, The group, composed mainly of women, mobilized its own partners to carry out a 120-meter borehole in October 2025. It then applied for Eau Soleil Rhône Alpes, active in the region since 2017 and already present in the neighboring village of Amzaourou. The project is part of the action plan of the municipality of Assaki, which supports it

  • In partnership with: Amalou Association for Women and Development
Funder(s):
• La Guilde

Project objectives

  • Guaranteeing access to drinking water at home for the 235 inhabitants of Amalou
  • Improve the hygiene conditions of the village
  • To ensure autonomous and sustainable management of the water service by the village association

Activities

  • Construction of a 15 m³ storage tank installed on a hill near the village, to allow for gravity distribution.
  • Installation of the drinking water network approximately 1,100 meters of piping and connection of all the homes, the school and the association's premises.
  • Installation of a solar pumping station. This stage takes place during a youth work camp with students from the Alexandre Bérard vocational high school in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, and it also serves to train a technician from the village.
  • Construction of two sanitary blocks: one for women, one for men, located near the school and in the center of the village, and equipped with septic tanks.

Direct beneficiaries

235 inhabitants of the village of Amalou. This represents a total of 37 families affected.

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