GIVE WATER GIVE LIFE

Project Title : PROVIDING PURE DRINKING WATER TO PADAVIYA AND

KEBATHIGOLLAWA IN THE DISTRIC OF ANURADAPURA

Implemented By : Centre for Community Development

17/4 Prathibimmarama Road

Kalubowilla Dehiwella

Contact Person: Mohamed Zuhuri Programme Manager .C.C.D

Gmail zuhuri.mohamed @gmail.com

Bankers N.D.B bank

Center For Community Development

Account No 101000293726

SWIFT CODE : NDBSLKLX

BUDJET PER VILLAGE: 985,000.00 per village (300 Families) 7,577 USD

TARGETED VILLAGES: 10 Villages in Padaviya and Kebthigollawa

TOTAL BUDGET : 9,850,000.00 S.L rupees (USD 75,770)

CHRONORIC KIDNEY DISEASE - ANURADHAPURA

Chronic Kidney disease is a major health problem in Sri Lanka since in last 8-10

years . CKD or Chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology is characteristic from

other kidney disease by its slow progressive asymptomatic development. This

disease start at a younger age group and it is common among people who engage

in agriculture typically around age 40-60 years.

In chronic kidney disease kidney does not usually fail at once instead it slowly

stepwise fail to perform it task .Chronic kidney disease involves 5 stages.

Therefore stage 5 chronic kidney disease is also referred as kidney failure, end –

stage kidney disease , or end stage renal disease, wherein there is total or near –

total loss of kidney function. There is dangerous accumulation of water , waste

and toxic substances and most individuals in this stage of kidney disease need

dialysis or transplantation to stay alive.

Anuradhapua District is bounded to the North by Vavunia Mannar and

Mullaithivu Districr and to the South Kurunagala and Matale District and to the

West Puttlam and Mannar District and to the East Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee

District. Largest Administrative District is Anuradhapura and covers 10.9 % of the

total land area of the Country. Density of the District is 71,790 hectors and the

population is around 860,000 . The District is consisting of 7 electrodes and 649

grama niladari Division .

Cause of Kidney diseases in the NCP yet unknown -GMOA

The Chronic Kidney Disese is currently detected in Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa,

Kethigollawa , Girandurukotte, Padaviya, Villachchiya. Ampara and a a highest

number of patients were identified from those areas.

The Health Mininstry with the cooperation of World health organization have

done studies to find the cause of the decease . The disease progresses slowly

and majority of patients do not have any symptoms until they are in the late

stages of the disease.

Anuradhapura has the highest recorded number of renal patients. With

approximately 1,350 new patients added to the list annually. Dr Ranasinghe

said the unit is planning to complete screening

20% of the total population in Anuradhapura District and 25% in

Polonnaruwa District by 2013 to identify kidney patients. According to Dr

Ranasinghe with 2823 cases , Madawachiya area in Anuradhapura has the

highest number of kidney patients, followed by Padaviya and Kehithigollawa

areas which have 2,464 and 933 cases respectively.The issue is of serious

nature because some 1,599 deaths have been reported from Anuradhapura

from 2003 to 2004 . The number of deaths includes those who died in

hospital only.

According to GMOA there are 150,000 patients in the Norhe Central Province

and 20,000 of them die annually, due to the disease. Anuradhapura is one of

the worst area that has been afflicted with various forms of kidney disease.

There are villages where all the people in that village suffering from the

disease. It mostly affects men from the ages of 30-50 years who are also the

breadwinners of the family.

Water is an

essential

necessity in life.

It is simply part

of life. 68% of

our body is

made up of

water and 50%

of circulating blood is made up of water. If we do not get enough water our

cells gets dehydrated.

However water the vitality of the life has become polluted in this area by

careless and damaging actions of human beings.

This is the sad story we

hear from this North

Central Part of Sri Lanka

.North Central Province

is the main area of rice

cultivation in the

country. The main sauce of living in this area is agriculture.

However 30% of the population of this region is facing dangerous dieses.

Their final outcome is death, This life threatening decease is known as

CHRONIC KIDNEY DECEASE

Sampath Kumarasinghe is 21 years lives with his widowed

mother and extended family. Despite the brutal heat he is

wearing a wool hat. He speaks softly and his movements

are slow for someone of his age. Like most people here

Kumarasinghe is a rice farmer but recently he hasn’t had

strength to work on his farm. Kumarasinghes kidneys are failing. They are no

longer filtering waste from his bloodstream. He is being kept alive by dialysis, a

procedure he receives twice a week at a regional hospital. Kumarasinghe is one of

thousands of people in the North Central province suffering from Chronic Kidney

Disease.

Parents of 50 students have died of kidney decease in a school-Principal

The parents of 50 students have died of kidney decease The unidentified kidney decease is spreading in the Anuradhapura area.

The Principal of Sri Pura Padavi Pajugas Panguwe Mga Vidyalaya H.M.Gamini Himiduma had disclosed that 50 students in his school have lost both parents by acquiring this decease.

The Principal Gamini Himiduma had also said that in the Sri Pura area around 500 persons have died of the decease owing to cadmium poisonous substance found in the agro chemicals.

It is learnt from the Principal Gamini Himiduma that there are 12 Grama Seva divisions in the area in which out of a population of 10,000 people 1000 persons are suffering from the kidney decease.

We are losing the very productive crowd - they are farmers, they feed us”

Aniruddha PadaniyaPresident of the Government Medical

Officers' Association.

"We are losing the very productive crowd. They are farmers. They

feed us," he says.

"We have to save them because they don't have the ability to save themselves.

Rammanika a widow of 35 years “ My husband was a farmer and he was

working in the paddy field. He died last year . We did not have money so we

could not save his life. I have 3 children . He was our bread winner. Now I

have to do odd jobs to feed my children. There are lots of people in our

village suffering from kidney decease. So we kindly request to provide us with

clean water to safeguard our lives , our children’s lives and our villagers from

this deadly disease

The first victim

of this decease

was reported in

the year 1992

and by now many

innocent lives

have become

victims

of this decease

To worsen this

situation the

decease is

spreading to the

naboring

provinces .

Currently many

based hospitals

of the Noth

Central,

province are

filled with

Kidney decease

patients.

Kumara

Karunaratne is 32

years old ,His

kidney has stopped

working,

now the machine

does the job.

He is one of the

thousands of

patience in the North

Central Province . To

develop the condition

by one kidney that

start shrinking unlike

other kidney

conditions Chronic

Kidney decease of unknown ideology has battled the medical community;

The Medical Officer of Anuradhapura says ”The unidentified kidney decease waws

first reported in Sri Lanka in the year 1992.It was

reported from the Rajarata area. By 1996 the issue

was starting to grow in to an epidemic level. Now

we have found that this decease has spread to over

6 districts in Sri Lanka. The most amount of people

which the kidney decease have been reported from

Padaviya and Parakramapura area in the

Anuradhapura District and that has been accepted by

the world health organization on their last report. It says 20% of the people of

Padaviya and Parakramapura are suffering from this kidney decease.

What is the reason behind this tragedy?

This disease is not a decease that spreads .

Many scientist believe the cause of this decease

is polluted contaminated drinking water. The

group of researchers from the Department of

Chemistry University of Kelaniya says the high

concentration of Arsenic , cadmium and

mercury in water may have a direct impact

affect on this decease,

Since most of these areas are agricultural areas

the uncontrolled and exercive use of fertilizer and

pesticides has caused increased concentration of

heavy metals to enter not only the surface water

but also the underground water in the area.

Most of the

effected

people are

farmers and it

is reported

that

symptoms of

Arsenic, can

be seen in

their palms.

Resent research done by the World health organization

confirms that high consistence of Arsenic and Cadmium

are found in water. Exposure to a combination of factors

that are toxic to the kidneys seems to cause the decease.

Toxic factors identified up to now include Arsenic,

Cadmium, and Neprotoxic agrochemicals

All this report and statistics puts into one thing that is the tragic news the the

water of the North Central Province of Sri Lanka is polluted. At present thousands

of people have become helpless on face of this crises , This has become such a

major crisis in the society that the people are leaving their homes on fear of this

decease. There are even many instances where several members of the same

family have passed away due the decease.

In order to keep our fellow brothers and sisters to overcome this crisis we must

provide them with pure clean water.

The Center for Community Development , Ministry of Defense Sri

Lanka and Sharda TV have joined hands in order to fulfill the challenging

social responsibility helping the brothers and sisters secure the future of our

county.

Ministry of Defense.

STEP 1

All water resources of each village in a specified area will be examined in order to

evaluate whether or not water is suitable for

drinking. After having evaluated the water

according to the international standards a notice

will be placed certifying the water is suitable for

drinking. Therefore people will be well aware of

which water source are clean and which is

polluted giving them the opportunity to get

water from pure water source. All water source will be evaluated every 6 months .

Further all water source of the village will be mapped to drinkable and non-

drinkable groups . The data will be used for the second step of the campaign

STEP 2

Based on the data gained on the first step of the

project as well as other responsible institutions and

agencies large water filters system will be established

in areas that are highly affected by kidney decease as

well as village that have the fever source of drinking

water , This filter center will be based on chosen wells

that have a good year long supply of water . The

Revese Osmosis Filtering System(R/O/) is determined

to e used here in order to remove all powerful

elements of water such as Arsenic , Cadmium,

Floride,Murcury and hardness of water which are

suspected to be the root cause of kidney decease.

Thereby it will be possible to filter polluted water

which is unsuitable for drinking and turn it into

purified water this is drinkable which can then be distributed among villages.

STEP 3

Making awareness among people about the source of water pollution and the ways

of preventing water pollution.

You too can join us in providing a drop of

water to those helpless lives making this

campaign a success.

Thank You

M.Zuhuri

Programme Manager

Center For Community Development