A borehole at Tasha Sani, and the question of what happens next
A community water point in Yola South LGA, drilled with the Baitul Hikma Wal Ulum Foundation — and an honest note about the figure the organization does not have.
Tasha Sani is a community in Yola South Local Government Area, Adamawa State. In 2020 it received a borehole: a year-round source of clean water within the community, rather than a walk to one.
The work ran in three stages. A site assessment and community consultation came first, which is the stage most easily skipped and least safely skipped — where a water point sits determines who actually uses it. Drilling and installation followed. The completed water point was then handed over to the community.
The project was co-funded with the Baitul Hikma Wal Ulum Foundation. Co-funding with a local foundation did two things at once: it reduced the unit cost of the borehole, and it strengthened community ownership of the finished asset. The second effect is the one that matters over a ten-year horizon.
This update reports no beneficiary figure, because the organization's records hold none. A borehole serves a community, and it would be easy to reach for a plausible-sounding number of households. The organization does not estimate. What is documented is this: one community borehole drilled and commissioned in Tasha Sani, and improved access to clean water for the community it serves.
The harder question is the one that arrives after the handover. A drilled borehole is not a solved water problem; it is a solved water problem for as long as it is maintained. The organization's own conclusion from this project is that water point sustainability depends on an identified maintenance arrangement at the point of handover, not on the quality of the drilling alone.
The project marked the organization's entry into WASH infrastructure and is recorded against Sustainable Development Goals 3, 6 and 9 — health, clean water and sanitation, and industry, innovation and infrastructure. The third of those is not incidental. A borehole is community infrastructure, and this project is the delivery evidence behind the infrastructure development strand of the organization's work.
