WATER

Having established Zoe Zambia and welcomed our first orphans onto the programme it soon became clear that most of the villages in which they lived had only a very poor, unclean source of water to rely on. Due to their family circumstances orphans were the ones most likely to have to join the women and young girls walking long distances daily to collect it in big heavy containers. Infant mortality rates were high.

Obviously something had to be done to make a real difference to those real lives.

Happily the Chiefdom sits on a large aquafer that provides good, clean water that can be drunk immediately it’s been pumped – perfect! Kind donors have enabled us to sink 8 wells, each one enclosed by a large concrete ring on which stands a manual pump. A trough in the concrete leads to a large, lined pit into which any spilled water flows and which can then be used for watering neighbouring gardens. What joy to see the faces of all those who reap the benefits!

If you’d like to be involved in the joy water brings, just contact us.