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To date, we have succeeded in serving over 60,000 people in 240 villages, each with either a new or rehabilitated well and with around 20 pit latrines for toilets, with hand washing, refuse pits and plate and vegetable racks to keep the food off the ground - and this is having a dramatic impact upon the health of the people, particularly children. All the sanitation work is undertaken by the people themselves with Village Water providing cement and other materials.
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In Zambia most rural villagers do not have access to enough clean water. A village woman often spends three hours a day carrying one 20-litre plastic container of water. This is not sufficient water for drinking, cooking and washing. Diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases are common and life-threatening.
Village Water believes that no one should be that deprived of water in our modern world.
How we use the money we receive:
- £450 could pay for a pump
- £200 could buy cement for a new well
- £40 could buy cement for a rehabilitated well
- £150 a week of pump mender training for 2 villagers
- £300 for 3 field workers to carry out a full programme of hygiene and sanitation training in a community
- £100 all vehicle costs for one community programme
"We had a lot of diseases before we got this pump and the children were really suffering, they were going to the hospital, but after this pump those diseases have all gone... But today our village is clean we have latrines we are using everything sanitary. We really say thank you. "
Read Mr Bosco Kashekele's speech in full.
Watch the YouTube video of this speech translated by Albertina Siyunyi, one of the Zambian Village Water field workers.