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How Your Money Could Be Spent
It is important to us to use all donations as efficiently as possible. Your money could be used in many different ways to further our aim of providing clean water and sanitation and hygiene education to rural villages in Zambia:
- £30 could provide hygiene education, improved sanitation and clean water for one person, for life.
- £240 could buy all the cement needed to install a new well.
- £450 could pay for a brand new India Mark II water pump.
- £2,500 could pay for refurbishing a well, bringing a useless pump back into full use. We carry out a full community sanitation and hygiene mobilisation programme and train village pump operators, so they know how to carry out basic maintenance to give a pump a long and useful life.
- £4,500 could transform an entire community, providing an average of 150 people with hygiene education, improved sanitation and clean water, for life.
Water Charity Zambia Africa
The Republic of Zambia was once classified as a middle-income country. Three decades of economic decline and neglect of infrastructure and services have turned it into a very poor country.
- Total population: 13,046,508 (Zambia census 2010)
- Life expectancy: 47 years (UNDP and Zambia Statistics office
- Zambia ranks 150 of 169 countries in UNDP Human Development Index report 2010
- 45% of the population is under nourished
- Access to water in rural areas: 46% of population
- Access to sanitationin rural areas: 43% of population
- Infant mortality: 148 deaths (under 5) per 1000 live births.
Village Water has carried out water, sanitation and hygiene education programmes in four Districts of the Western Province of Zambia - Kaoma, Mongu, Lukulu and Senanga. According to the Central Statistical Office of Zambia, the Western Province consistently emerges as the poorest Province.
The Zambia National Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme indicates that only 37% of the rural population has access to clean water and 13% has access to sanitation facilities. In accordance with the Millennium Development Goals, the Zambian Government has set itself the target of, by 2015, halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. In rural areas of Zambia this means ensuring that 75% of the Zambian population has access to clean water and 50% has access to sanitation. Village Water is working with the knowledge of the Local Government in the Western Province to make this a reality. Hygiene and Sanitation Programmes do, of course, also impact on other Millennium Development Goals such as combating major diseases, particularly diarrhoea (goal 6), improving maternal health (goal 5) and reducing child mortality (goal 4).