Reuters, 08/06 18:54 CET
By Danstan Kaunda
KAZUNGULA, Zambia (Thomson
Reuters Foundation) – Munji Malambo and his younger brother used to
wake up at 5 a.m. every day to fetch water for their family and
livestock. With the nearest working well over two kilometres away, the
boys often missed school as they carried enough water home.
That changed when, earlier this year, the government
installed a solar powered-borehole at Malambo’s school, the Simukombo
Primary School, in southern Zambia’s drought-prone Kazungula District.
Now the local community has quick and easy access to
clean groundwater. And Malambo, 16, and his 200 classmates can spend
their days learning instead of toting water.
The new well is part of a government project to bring
water to the Ndemena and Mabole communities, both of which are among the
hardest hit by drought in the district.
The aim of the project, launched in 2015, is to build the
resilience to climate change of a county suffering prolonged and
unpredictable droughts.
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Source: euronews.
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