Chibolya Education and Health Organisation – Zambia (CEHOZ): water aid to a new school

CEHOZ is a small, community-driven, non-government aid organisation which is addressing the health and social needs of children in Chibolya and the surrounding Kalaya community of over 10,000 people near the town of Mazabuka. With the support of ZOA-UK (see Partners) and Build IT, a new primary school is being constructed in Chibolya. Build IT is a UK-based charity that helps local communities to build essential low- cost facilities in an environmentally friendly way by training local people in building skills and maximising the use of local resources. The Estelle Trust is financing the provision of a bore hole and water pumping and storage facilities for the school which is scheduled to open in April 2012.

Moulding concrete floor panel for the school at Chibolya. Over 18,000 hydro-form blocks are being moulded on site by community volunteers lead by Build IT.

 

Mpanshya Orphan Training Farm: solar powered water supply

In 2002 Katondwe Hospital was given 80 hectares of land on which to develop Mpanshya Farm OVC: a training and farming enterprise for AIDS orphans. There is now a dormitory, a supervisor’s house, a small poultry house and pig sty on the site but the well dries out early in the dry season and the students have to collect water from 3 km away. An improved water supply will improve the output of the farm and benefit four nearby villages. The sale of the farm produce to the hospital and others helps to pay for the orphans’ school fees. Following a site visit by Glenn Allison, an Estelle Trust trustee, the Trust has approved the funding of a new bore hole and installation of a solar powered pump and water tank.

The dried out well at Mpanshya Orphan Training School

Kutemwa ndi Kusama Ministries: water supply for community and school project

Kutemwa ndi Kusama (‘to love and to care’) is a registered charitable society in Zambia that acquired 53 hectares of land at Chongwe  – about 90 km from Lusaka – and the community embraces 14 villages in a catchment area of around 3000 people. It includes a school for 227 orphans or vulnerable children. Its work in education, health and agriculture is supported by contributions from UNICEF, World Food Programme, Churches Health Association of Zambia and Goodshepherd Ministries. The wind pump and water storage tank that has been installed will meet domestic needs and help the community irrigate and cultivate its crops all year round in order to feed the children and create surplus produce to sell.

‘Kids Dance for Kids’ – to develop a new school

A community school is being developed by Anja Kleeman-Wright and a group of local supporters on the border of their property, Nagwaza Farm near Chisamba. The farm is adjacent to a forestry reserve that has attracted a large number of squatters whose children have had no chance of attending school. The aim is to develop a school with qualified teachers and in due course to transfer it into local community ownership. 

The Trust, with Chapman Freeborn Airchartering’s support, has funded the installation of  a wind pump and water storage facility at the school.  Anja teaches ballet at the American and other fee-paying schools in Lusaka and uses the funds raised to help finance the school – hence the name of the project.  The Trust is planning to assist in the development of the school’s physical and educational facilities.

Water for two Holy Rosary Sisters’ community re-settlement projects

Bore hole and wind pump base at OWDEC Village

The Holy Rosary Sisters are a small but well-established community in Zambia with a high reputation for medical and community work. Irish by origin, the community is based in Lusaka and lead by two Nigerian nuns, Sister Chizo Chiedo and Sister Salome Mbate. The Trust and Chapman Freeborn have funded the installation of wind pumps and water storage facilities at two of the Holy Rosary Sisters’ projects.

The Orphans and Woman Development and Empowerment Community is a resettlement project that is moving families that are living on the street or in shanty accommodation in Lusaka to rural land about 50 miles north of the city. With appropriate assistance, the families are building their own houses and farming subsistence plots according to conservation farming principles.

The second project is at Chipapa in the Kafue district south of Lusaka. This is a very distressed area with few facilities and a collapsed agricultural economy. The project is rebuilding the community based on four villages in the area, a school and revived subsistence farming.

Water and buildings at Kachele Village and the Natimwa Learning Centre

Natimwa school children during a visit to Kachele by Carol Norman, group managing director of Chapman Freeborn Airchartering

The New Jerusalem ‘Kachele Village’ project was set up in 2000 by the Zambian charity, National Agenda for Social Advancement (NASAD): the village is built on 500 acres of land near Liteta and held in trust by NASAD. The aim of the project is to support and improve the lives of the families of leprosy sufferers and 45 families –about 200 people – have been re-settled in the village so far.

Kathy Harding (Mrs Kathleen Harding MBE) is the originatingand driving force behind the project: she created Kachele and lives for half the week in the village in an old caravan. A large school and health clinic has been established in Kachele Village which serves the surrounding district of 10 villages or about 2000 people. The school currently has 185 pupils at primary level (up to grade 6) with further classrooms and other facilities planned in order to expand the age range up to the secondary level.

The Estelle Trust and Chapman Freeborn have funded the two wind and solar pumps and storage tanks that provide water for the village, the school and the clinic. The Trust is also paying for the construction of houses for the head teacher/manager of the Natimwa Learning Centre and for the district nurse at the clinic.

Community-centred installations

There are currently 10 communities or community facilities in central Zambia where installations have been completed or are in progress based on wind pumps or in one instance a solar pump. Among the first beneficiaries are two re-settlement villages, one for leprosy sufferers and their families and the other for families that having been living on the streets in Lusaka. Other sites include two orphanages, two schools, and a rural clinic. This water supply programme has been substantially aided by a generous contribution from Chapman Freeborn, the international air charter company.

An installation funded by Chapman Freeborn