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Success Stories
May be life of yours as long as
water...
October 3, 2007. This date left a trace which
will not drop for a long time from memory of Garachay Jek inhabitants.
That day was a day of reporting about successes achieved by Garachay Jek
community during a period of one and half year owing to community
development process. Thus the community members assembled for an opening
ceremony of Water system restoration project implemented within
Community Development Activity Program being carried out jointly by CHF
and Umid HSSC under financial support by USAID. At last the community,
which have been demonstrating a diligence, activity and belief for
several months in this work, could reap the fruit of their labor. People
having gathered in the event shone with joy and their faces expressed
satisfaction.
Another reason for this joy was related with greeting of high level
guests for the first time at the history of the community.
Representatives of US State Department and USAID arrived at the
community for participating at the ceremony. Likewise, Lale Abbasova, a
deputy of Milli Mejlic who met with village inhabitants in July, CHF's
and Umid HSSC's management also attended the ceremony for sharing
joyfulness of the community. The guests merged with the event arranged
in the project area and congratulated the Community Development Council
and simple village inhabitants for their achievements and wished
successes in their further works.
150 Garachay Jek village which has a history of over 150 years and
inhabited by 560 poeple is located at 14 km from Khachmaz region center.
The community has been involved in USAID's Community Development
Activity Project since May 2006. During past months the
community members and selected Community Development Council acquired
organizational skills through training sessions and weekly meetings on
different topics, and within a short period of time managed to
accomplish Repairs of roads inside the village and
Water system
restoration projects with total value of 22 811,92 AZN (CHF 15
010,2 AZN; community -7 801,72 AZN) in direction of improvement of
socio-economical infrastructure.
During this process selected CDC members applied their capacities to a
great extent. With a view to ensure its involvement in entire projects
in the form of a contribution the community established a Community
Fund, mobilized its financial, material and labor forces and developed
an activity plan.
While sharing her delight with us Zinyat khanum, a CDC member
expressed her impression from the event so: If one year ago this
day of ours has been described for me, I would simply guess it as a
dream. Since my birth I hadn't seen such a reviving in our village.
There are a plenty of problems waiting for solution in our village.
Significant one among them was a lack of potable water. Especially women
always felt this difficulty. But the village had not enough financial
support for removing this problem. While the inhabitants were hopeful
for receiving an aid for this problem we achieved this support. CHF and
Umid organizations having been cooperated with us since may of the last
year didn't leave us in the lurch. They helped us to address our two
problems firs road nd then water one. Knowledge and skills we acquired
during meetings having been held since our collaboration helped us to
carry out this projects. Thanks to young adults and women of our
village. Everybody gave a contribution they could. Somebody by money,
somebody by labor. I think, main gain we achieved is just union of
inhabitants and activity of women. Because our women are a little bit
secluded. But now you can observe how many women are participating in
this event. So, owing to the community work we managed to solve one of
the most difficult problems. We are glad for this.
Todays event will be borne in our memories, be it the memory of the
children or the elderly people. This one of the most pivotal historical
moments in the history of our village.
Now we believe that Garachay Jek community will worthily reap the fruit
from collaboration with you and make a step to a new stage of its way to
development. We are grateful to each of you for stimulating our
enlivening.
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