Finding Water for the People of Africa
Sarah & Friends

Hi,

I’m Sarah (left), photographed with two other volunteer field workers in the sanitation & hygiene programme. I travel around villages that have a clean water supply thanks to Village Water – to deliver babies, that’s my job – I’m a midwife. Can you imagine the difficulties I had before clean fresh water arrived?

One morning the Village Water team called to collect me in a village where I had been delivering a baby since 6.00 a.m. They saw I had no shoes to wear and no bicycle – and immediately provided both.

Thanks,

Sarah.

 GeorgeHello,

I’m George and I’m a pump-mender. I am being trained by Village Water to service and repair the new water pumps being installed to replace many of the old pumps that have failed in the past 20 years. I am very proud of my work and of the toolbox provided by Village Water.

 
In Zambia, Central Africa, farmers have used their ingenuity and skills for many years to make the best of a tough climate and, in the Western Province, a poor sandy soil. They have learned methods of soil conditioning, such as applying green waste compost, and ploughing in the roots of cassava plants, so that their only shortage now is irrigation water in the dry season – which lasts 8 months of the year.
 Village Water Well
Here is another of the wells sunk this year by Village Water. It has the manual water pump installed, but the villagers have yet to build the thatched hut and compound that will protect the well from the weather, from animals and from children.

The man on the far right is Mr Andrew Kakombe, an Environmental Health Technician, from Kaoma District Hospital, who volunteers to supervise the field work for Village Water – ensuring that your donations are well spent. We purchased a motor cycle in this year’s programme to enable Andrew to get around.
 
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