الجمعة، 29 سبتمبر 2017
EERY program SOLAR INSTALLATION MONITORING LAHJ –ABYAN
EERY program
SOLAR INSTALLATION MONITORING
LAHJ –ABYAN
Adwar Organization and The United Nations Development Program inaugurate the activities of the Solar Energy project in Lahj and Abyan governorates.
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Adwar Organization for Youth Development inaugurated today its activities concerning monitoring, installing, operating the solar energy systems, and coordinating with the official parties and the beneficiaries in Lahj and Abyan governorates; that was through solar energy belonging to the project, that aims to assist the Yemeni countryside endure the situation,which is being executed by The United Nations Development Program UNDP in four governorates Lahj, Abyan, Hodaidahand Hajah for three consistent years.
This project intends to make the local societies in Yemeni countryside able to deal with dangers and shocks through having the solar energy.
Dr. Majid Beshr, the Manager of Adwar Organization for Youth Development has confirmed this project and the task of monitoring, instal
منظمة أدوار تدشن تركيب منظومات الطاقة الشمسية بمديريتي خنفر ولودر في أبين
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نفذت منظمة ادوار للتنمية الشبابية وبالشراكة مع البرنامج الإنمائي للأمم المتحدة UNDP بدء التركيب للمنظومات الشمسية في مختلف المرافق والقطاعات الحكومية الخدمية المستهدفة ضمن برنامج " تعزيز القدرة على الصمود في الريف اليمني" مشروع الطاقة الشمسية في مديريتي لودر وخنفر بمحافظة أبين.
ويستهدف المشروع الممول من الاتحاد الأوروبي وتنفيذ البرنامج الإنمائي للأمم المتحدة UNDP وبالشراكة مع منظمة أدوار للتنمية الشبابية التي تتولى مهمة الرقابة على تنفيذ تركيب منظومات الطاقة الشمسية للمدارس والمراكز الصحية والمكاتب الخدمية في المديريات والجمعيات التنموية المساهمة في القدرة على تعزيز الصمود في الريف اليمني بما يحقق خدمة الشرائح التي تستهدفها تلك القطاعات الحكومية الخدمية وتخفيف معاناتها..
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success story Wafa: I came to love school and understand lessons better than before.
success story
Wafa: I came to love school and
understand lessons better than before.
Touching stories from facilities
where solar energy systems were installed under Enhanced Rural Resilience in
Yemen Project which is funded by the EU and implemented by the UNDP in
partnership with ADWAR.
Media center/ ADWAR organization
ADWAR team visited in a number of
remote areas in Toban and Tor al –Baha districts in Lahj governorate and
Khanfar and Lodar districts in Abyan governorate before and after installing
solar energy systems in a number of service and health facilities that are
targeted by Enhanced Rural Resilience in Yemen Project funded by EU and
implemented by the UNDP in partnership with ADWAR Organization for Youth
Development. ADWAR plays the role of
supervision and evaluating effects during visits and meetings with direct and
indirect beneficiaries and local residents. During the team's visits, the team
saw the difficult situations that local resident live and their need to the
most basic services which are not found of halted due to the conflict, power
outage, lack of alternative solutions to supply power in order to offer
services to local residents.
Most of the facilities visited and
targeted by the team of Enhanced Rural Resilience in Yemen Project suffered
either from halted services in some areas or suffering due to the lack of solar
energy in different facilities, such as health centers and offices and schools.
During our field visit to these facilities, the team talked to the local
residents and we touched their sufferings due to the power outage. Some
residents briefed the team on the great benefits of the solar systems and the
return of services to the different facilities and other successful stories.
In Abu Bakr Al-Sedeek School in
Lodar district, Abyan governorate, where temperature sometimes reaches 40
Celsius, the team visited the school after one week from installing the solar
systems and found the fans running in the classrooms in the morning when female
students are studying. The fans in the classrooms were not working since the
last two years due to the power absense.
The female students told us that
they now want to stay more in the classrooms and study, unlike the previous
period when there was not power and fans were not working.
We asked Wafa –Wafa is a female
student studying in grade three – whether the working fans in the classrooms
helped her to understand lessons and receive information in better way or not.
She answer: before the fans work, she was always asking her teacher to go out
of the classroom before the lecture's time finishes and she did not understand
lessons because she was always thinking when the lecture finishes to get out of
the hot classroom. In the classroom, she felt suffocating due to the increasing
number of female students in the classroom and there was not power to run fans
that help in refreshing air and lowering temperature in the classroom. Now she
likes the school and would like to study for longer time in the classroom.
The school principal explained to us
that the school morning routine and bell were suspended for more than two years
and he is so happy now to hear the bell again to remind students of the lecture
start and end times.
During the team's stay in the health
center in Ja'ar area in Khanfar district after one week from installing solar
system, they noted that many patients come to the center now instead of
travelling to the district center. The team noted also the medical labs
equipment working in the health center and making medical tests to the local
residents. The equipment in the medical center was suspended for a long period
of time due to the power outage, lack of generators, the expensive oil
derivatives and no government supply.
The director of the health center
told us that there is shortage in oil derivatives. Amal, a nurse working in the
health unit explained the sufferings that faced women during labor which forced
nurses in the health unit to resort to tradition ways in labor or traveling to
remote hospitals in the district. Therefore, death cases were reported because
of the cessation of services in the area's health center. She confirmed that
the health center is now in order and, during the few previous days and after
installing solar systems, the center makes labor surgeries for local residents.
Amal performed a labor surgery herself for one woman in the center in a medical
way. She also referred to the sterilization equipment that has been brought to
order after the return of power. She
added that she is happy as she is now able to provide services to the locals
and help them save efforts, time, expenses and sufferings.
The team also visited Public Society
for Relief and Development which closed its doors and could not offer services.
The Society is a NGO and one of the civil society institutions working on
rehabilitating women in Alhota Lahej city on different fields, including
handicrafts and sewing. When we visited the association before installing the
solar system, we found the Society's training halls, which are equipped with
sewing machines, closed. We also found some activities related to childcare and
orphans whose fathers were killed in the conflicts the city witnessed or killed
by terrorist attacks on government and private facilities and markets in the
city. The same for women who lost their husbands. The association headquarter
has become the place where they meet to learn some handicrafts and sewing
popular clothes after the training they receive in the Society. The women sell
their handicraft works to cover the family needs and overcome difficulties
imposed on them by the situations and death of their husbands.
We spoke to some local residents
during our visit to the health center in Al-Shaqa’a area in Toban district in
Lahj governorate about the cessation of the services of the health center for
more than two years due to the power outage caused by the conflicts the
province witnessed. This forced local residents to travel to the district
health center or to Aden province to receive treatment or vaccinate their
children. Some locals do not afford travel expenses and could not transfer
patients to health centers which made diseases double. One of the local
residents said he did not vaccinate his children because of not having travel
expenses to the district center.
Abdullah, one of local council of
the countryside, said that the local residents have suffered a lot due to the
cessation of the services in the health center, but now the solar system
installed in the health center brought services again to order and helped us to
receive patients and provide vaccine to children. This enabled residents in the
same village and neighboring villages to benefit from the services offered by
the center.
The center offered regular and
continuous children vaccination because the refrigerators in the health center
are working again by the installation of solar systems. Abdullah expressed his
thankfulness to the donor organizations represented by the EU and UNDP as they
brought the health center in the village to order again after it was suspended
for more than two years due to the power outage. He, along with residents,
feels grateful for these organizations.
The team also visited the health
office in the Toban district in Lahj hovernorate after ten days from installing
the solar system and found that the office is offering vaccine for children and
keeps the vaccines in center's refrigerators for longer times till the district
center supply it with another batch of vaccines.
Those who are in charge of the
government health office face difficulties in providing vaccines and keeping it
cold due to the lack of power.
The Director of the Health Center,
Dr. Tarazan, said they were taking vaccines from the province and distributes
them in the same day and they restored to using pieces of locally made snow in
order to keep them cold. Sometimes the snow melts and does not last for long as
some vaccines which must be cold before delivering them to remote area.
success story - Beginning of the Road
Beginning of the Road
Despite the fatigue and tiredness
and the travel between the four districts of Lahej and Abyan governorates:
(Khanfar, Lodar, Toban and Tor Al-Baha). To provide the services of solar
energy to revive health facilities and schools within the program of Enhanced
Rural Resilience in Yemen implemented by Adawr Organization with the
partnership of UNDP and EU fund. All
that fatigue and efforts mixed with the heat of the sun vanishes and fades when
the smile is put back to the children of the schools in their classrooms, the
cooling fans are running in the classrooms. This is beyond all human feelings.
Our intervention in areas
characterized by heat, those children who suffers as well as the whole society
suffering from the effects of the civil war that broke out before 32 months in
2014 and is still ongoing. Since the target areas in the project ERRY to
provide recovery services using solar-energy to health facilities and schools
because of power outages in all Yemen provinces without exception, where those
areas considered, specifically the governorates of Lahej and Abyan of the
southern provinces that have been freed (liberated) and became desperately need
to revive life there, where electricity is one of the most important needs
recover life as they are the most affected areas from the woes of war.
Here was our intervention by
monitoring the installation and operation of solar energy systems in the most
important two fields health and education as the first stage 2016 as these
systems are the best alternative for the power outage.
Excuse us, we tried in this story to
offer a quick glance as an identifiable prelude for the project and the importance
of the services provided to community, especially in the health and education
from one side, children and students who are at the center of our story on the
other side.
As you may know, the schools are
doing student activities such as morning routine (students podcasting radio) or
sports or cultural. These activities are the foundation for polishing the
creative talents and develop the children's skills, along with the study of the
curriculum. Among these activities is the morning routine of school and radio
morning carried out by students beginning of each school day. Note that the
morning radio contain wisdom, proverbs, poetry, singing, acting and simulation
and other activities that enhance confidence, courage and sharpen up the
talents of students. Many students who were presenters in the school morning
radio or did some activities, after years they became prominent figures whether
in politics or in media, culture and literature and others. As the school is
the first step in forming the character of all those who have become prominent
name deserves recognition and respect.
Unfortunately this basic step has
become endangered of vanishing awfully, although the school radio is not
exceeding 30 minutes a day this is so sad.
After the installation and operation
of solar energy services in schools, we have waited for almost 20 days after
the installation and operating in order to measure the impact and find out what
has been achieved by ERRY services.
We visited Khadija School for girls
in Toban District – Lahej governorate, in which 660 students of all ages
studying there, we surveyed the impressions of students after the installation
of solar energy system at the school. Here was a surprise that the most
important success is to run the school radio through speakers.
We asked the student
"Raja" of the seventh grade about the changes that have taken place
in the school and its environment after operating the solar energy, she simply
answered with the expressions of sadness and pain filled her face, "we have
been deprived doing student activities, creative and receive lessons in new
ways due to lack of electricity even the school morning radio the only activity
have left we carry out without electricity, we couldn't hear from the daily radio presenters anything
because there are no speakers "
She added with expressions of
severity in her face, despite her young age, " the school administration
resorted to address this problem through a small speaker works by
batteries", she continued her talk with the changing of her face lineament
quickly mixed with a smile of irony "the microphone - speaker, which we
used to carry out the school morning radio used street dealers to promote the
sale of potatoes and vegetables in the markets to attract buyers"
We asked "Raja" How did
the school radio become after running solar energy in school?
she replied interactively
"Solar Energy handled a lot of problems so we offer distinct activities of
morning radio due to the availability of electricity and powerful speakers that
can be heard by not only the students in the school, also the local community
near the school."
There was interference from the
student "Rahaf" a friend to "Raja" where she said:
"Solar Energy has restored our joy enjoying the activities of school
morning radio, not only this but also created a suitable learning environment
make us demand the school management to integrate new technologies in education
wither devices or other. Also enhanced our motive to establish students
activities and initiatives and perform graduation ceremonies and others, after
the elimination of the permanent excuse of power outage that was always the
obstacle, which paralyzed all of our proposals and projects. Now this excuse
does not exist because solar energy is turned on. The student can implement
creative activities without the obstacles of electricity
".
Through the dialogue with the
students, we felt that the services provided to schools are important with a
large role in return the smile and activity to students in the schools, we felt
to how extent the students consistently adhering to the continuity of creative
activities which were close to disappear in the majority of schools on light of
the unstable situation and the raging war. This war victimized community in
present time and future.
Psychologist Abraham Maslow said,
"The most important motivation for a person is survival motive". This
is the motivation we saw its intensity flowing from the eyes of these two
students; we were able to read some of hidden things from those eyes.
The most important of these messages
that and despite the pain, agonies and harsh conditions of the war, but we will
continue carry out our activities, creative, even if the image before us is
dark and not clear. We will not allow the war to destroy what we love specially
our skills, our personalities in which school environment is the most important
stage to achieve it.
The second message: the motivation
of survival will dig our depth with hope; we will live our live regardless of
difficulties and obstacles.
Although: the messages of the eyes
were clean and transparent thus there words uttered by the students.
Student ''Rahaf" confirmed that
the service of the solar energy provided to Khadija School enhanced the
survival motivation giving us new chance to revive our activities, we created
not just an ideal educational atmosphere but an atmosphere in which
creativeness and communal participation arrive. Thank you Adwar, thank you UNDP
and thank you EU.
Before ending the exciting dialogue
with "Raja & Rahaf" to give them and their friends a push forward
to survive "when you have the burning desire to success no one can stop
you, desire is the seed of success"
Yes, faith in surviving is based on
motive with burning desire to prove personality, doing creative school
activities is the key of success.
The story of the beginning of the
road with the students of Khadija School ended
but the motive and desire in success does not end not only for
"Raja & Rahaf" even to us the team of ERRY in Adwar Organization.
Beginning of the Road is a success
story
Important Instructions For the Use and Preserve Solar Energy System
Important Instructions For the Use and Preserve Solar Energy System
· Operating of solar system must be according
to the designated purposes and the special times of community service. Not to
be used for personal purposes.
· Do Not touch any part of the system or change
the way of installation or connect sockets or cables to ge current rather than
way it was connected when installing.
· Do Not change the place of the system or move
it or move some parts to another place rather than the place where it was fixed
when installing.
· Commit to the rules of operating the solar
system, uses, maintenance in accordance with the user guidance. Not to harm the
system by any means.
· Maintenance of solar system should be handled
by specialized engineer in the field of solar system with the coordination and
instruction of administration.
Thank you for you cooperation
Important Instructions; For the Use and Preserve Solar Energy System
Important Instructions; For the Use and Preserve
Solar Energy System
¨ Cleaning and wiping solar panels each 48 hours.
¨ Reading the regulator/inverter data in order to know any reading warnings each 24 hours.
¨ Cleaning the place around batteries, equipment and cutters.
¨ Make sure not to engage the system in case there is another source of power in the facility.
¨ Preventing water or any kind of conductors to connect with batteries.
¨ Not to reach to system contents, not to touch or to move it.
¨ Eliminating heat sources from the system contents.
¨ Contacting the technical engineer of the project in the district in case there is any malfunction requires him to attend.
¨ Maximum load is 1000W/1500w.
¨ Not to clean the panels when sun is hot, clean them in morning when the weather is cold or warm.
¨ Use soft fabric to clean panels. Use water for stains on the panel.
¨ To preserve batteries, they should be kept in a cold. Therefore, don’t change the direction of the fan..
¨ Caution Electricity. Do not get close from Solar System.
First: Institutional Arrangements
First: Institutional Arrangements
Description:
The
institutional arrangements which were carried out by Adawr Organization based
on the participatory planning between the administration team of the project as
stated in the UNDP's Terms of References and rest of assisted documents. Main
targets and sub targets of the plan were put on the light of these documents as
well as expected results for each activity, timely checking mechanism and
achieving of requirements. We worked on this identifying requirement based on
the information, materialistic equipment and human resources. Tasks and missions
distributed as follow:
- Obtaining as
much information and reference documents from UNDP about the project and
mission of Adwar Organization.
- Forming team
work for the project, obtaining a set of reference documents, where the
terms of the references and studies provided by the partner of the
project. Besides relying on the private resources of the Organization of
competencies and expertise in research gathering as much information on
previous international and local projects, magazines and specialized reports
in this aspect as well as cooperation of coordinators, our partners and
allies of local Organizations particularly in Aden, Lahej and Abyan
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