“Since 2008, water blues have been a thing of the past as we fetch water like people in towns and it is even better than those who live in shanty compounds of the city.”
Villager from Chipapa
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Chipapa water stand
Project Manager Greenford Sikazwe
Water for Kids completes two projects in Zambia at Fumbelo and Chipapa
The five people on the May 2009 Water for Kids field trip to Zambia, were delighted to see that their partners in the Zambian Institute of Environmental Health (ZIEH) had completed two water installations in Fumbelo and Chipapa. The UK Team worked with the local people to decorate and add the finishing touches to the projects before the handover ceremonies took place. These communities have suffered from high levels of water-borne diseases, including cholera. Now up to 20,000 people will benefit from having safe water close to their home for the first time.
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Improving water supply and sanitation in Chipapa
Water for Kids, along with partners the Zambian Institute of Environmental Health (ZIEH) have been improving water and sanitation in Chipapa since 2008 and are continuing to do so. So far water has been provided to a clinic, school, market and five villages and WfK has assisted 60 families to build sustainable latrines. Work is now starting to build two protected wells in the most remote part of Chipapa and to assist with building 100 more latrines.
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Fumbelo
Fumbelo is a peri-urban area on the edge of Lusaka, something between a village and a shanty town, it is an unplanned settlement. Until the May 2009 the 15,000 people living there had to get water from two shallow wells, they dry up for one to two months of the year and are likely to be contaminated. The nearest safe water was 2km away and usually involved having to queue for some time to get water. There have been cases of cholera in Fumbelo in recent years.
Water for Kids has built a water kiosk with six taps providing readily available safe water for the community. See the EHN article for more details.
View Gil Ogden's photos of the May 2009 Field Trip
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