By Jane Kaye-Bailey | Chairman
I am currently in Zambia visiting The Butterfly Tree projects. The temperature is 38 degrees and rising as the rainy season approaches. Not a drop of rain has fallen for almost six months and the earth is parched, the rivers are low and the streams have run dry. Earlier in the week I drove to the Nyawa Chiefdom. The village I was aiming for was Muchimbale, 100 kilometers to Zimba then a further 36 kilometers into the bush.
Muchimbale has a small community school where children previously had to walk 5 kilometers every day to fetch water, which took 3 hours out of their time table. Thanks to a generous donor the school now has its own bore hole and it certainly was a joyful sight to see the children pumping and drinking safe clean water. In addition this donor has funded two double latrines for the pupils. In the same Chiefdom we have installed a bore hole at Kauwe Basic School A third bore hole has been donated but unfortunately, as yet, we have not been able to source water at Kanimbwa School. Such are the challenges when working in these remote communities.
Once these schools have a bore hole or well in place they can create a garden to grow maize and vegatables to provide a sustainable feeding program. Maize is grown and dried to store during the dry season. Currently children at schools such as Muchimbale leave home early to start lessons at 7am, but the children do not get any food until they return home around 5pm as the school budget is so poor. As a result attendence and performance suffers. November is the time to start planting - we are seeking funds to reach out to schools like Muchimbale.
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