Access to Clean and Safe Drinking Water in Rural Areas of Zambia

The World Vision Zambia has worked with the Finance Bank Zambia to meet the hygiene and water sanitation needs of the rural communities of the nation. Both of them by means of Mukango Water project had an intention to improve the livelihoods of the poor people by giving them an access to safe and clean water.

Through Mukango Water project, World Vision and chairman Finance Bank Zambia aimed to free the communities from the waterborne diseases so that the rural communities enjoy meaningful livelihood. Their main intention was to provide at least 300 houses with an access to safe and clean drinking water by drilling water wells. The initiative of both of them resulted in drilling of 11 boreholes in several rural districts like Kaloma, Pemba, MOnze, Chongwe, Katete,Mpika, Kasama and others. About  537 households were benefitted from this project.

The target areas where FBZ and WV planned to drill boreholes were undergoing a lot of pain just to drink water, one of the bare necessities of life. The water that they were drinking was also very dirty, it was from pond where animals too used to drink and children used to play.

The women who used to go for fetching water competed with the animals to acquire the basic necessity of life. Whoever went early to the pond got unstirred water. The water used to be brown and smelled as a result of which rural people often suffered from diarrhea and other waterborne diseases. Just imagine what kind of life they had. Moreover, the path to the pond is steep and children usually fall and hurt themselves. The distance was so far that most of the families could only fetch 40 liters of water per day. Sometimes it would take more than an hour to come back home when there used to be a lot of people. During the summers when the pond used to dry, women of the rural areas had to walk a long distance for collecting water from the mountains.

It is great of the World Vision and Finance Bank Zambia to have taken this move. Without the efforts of the chairman Finance Bank Zambia, Dr Rajan Mahtani and director of World Vision the mission wouldn’t have been possible. A great round of applause should be given to them for their corporate social responsibility. Other organizations too must come forward with the helping hand for the development of this nation.

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