By Jane Kaye-Bailey | Founder
Three substantial donations are providing more food production units and boreholes for schools and communities.
In the past month we have received a donation to install four boreholes and food production enterprises. A further donation to install four additional boreholes and a grant to initiate an agricultural project to empower young people with physical and mental challenges, and those living with HIV.
Without water and food there is no life. People living in remote communities in Zambia are being impacted by climate change. There has been no rain since April and rivers and streams are dry, and the rain pattern is changing. Normally rains fall between November and April, but this year in the lead up to the rains the Southern Province of Zambia has been experiencing unprecedented temperatures for the past month, soaring to 42 degrees celsius.
The new project to empower young people will offer sixty participants an opportunity to grow vegetables and crops, and to rear chicken. The aim is to provide them with a sustainable income-generating cooperative. Twenty young people will grow vegetables in Kamwi Village, twenty will grow crops in Ng'andu Village and twenty will rear chickens in Mukuni. All will revceive professional training and three from each village will be able to attend short skilled courses at college. The project will include a workshop, a chicken coop and a grinding mill.
To kick-start the above project a borehole for the vegetable growing project at Kamwi has been installed. Boreholes are also being drilled this week at Guta and Bbombwe Lyangoma schools in a remote areas of Nyawa. Two more women's project in Musokotwane and Mukuni Chiefdom are being initiated and will each will be given a borehole, seeds and fertilizer, and tools. The land for tese projects, including the empowerment of young people with disabilities, has been freely given by the village senior headmen.
In the lead up to Christmas and for GivingTuesday on the 28th November we will be raising funds for bags of ground maize to distribute amongst widows, the elderly, and orphans. A bag of maize costs $10 or £7 and can feed a family of four for three weeks.
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