Chipapa water stand
Project Manager Greenford Sikazwe
Water for Kids completes two projects in Zambia at Fumbelo and Chipapa
Five Water for Kids members returned from a field trip to Zambia on 14 May 2009. They 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.
Read the full report in EHN news.
View Gil Ogden's photos of the May 2009 Field Trip
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Chipapa clinic
Chipapa Clinic is always full of people, many of whom come from far afield. The top five diseases treated at the clinic are: malaria, diarrhoea, eye infections, sexually transmitted diseases and respiratory infections. Local people also need maternity care and under fives care. The clinic has a delivery room.
Until September 2008 the clinic staff had to queue at a borehole a kilometre away to collect water for the clinic. Water for Kids has now provided two boreholes, which feed two 5,000 litre water tanks. These provide safe water not only to the clinic, but also to the nearby school, market and five villages. See the EHN article for more details.
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.
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