Mama chungu foundation aims to:

Grow. Inspire.

We help rural communities in Zambia access clean water, grow sustainable food, and inspire healthy living.

We draw inspiration from the life of Mama Cecilia Chungu who lived from 1924 to 2017 in Luapula Province of Zambia. She cared deeply about her wider family’s well-being and its future.

She worked very hard to educate her children, secure food and water, and a roof over their heads.

She always gave a helping hand to anyone in need welcoming all into her village

The Foundation is inspired by Mama’s values to serve the needs of rural farming communities especially young women, the vulnerable, and the elderly with the same generosity of spirit and helping hand

 
 
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Our Aims

The Foundation focuses on four things:

1. access clean water and sanitation as the basis of healthy life,

2. grow sustainable farming to enable food security and income generation,

3. provide education in sustainable farming, and

4. install renewable energy for food processing, education and living.

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Our Impact

 

300+

hectares of farming land

 

75+

Years Serving communities

 
 

1+

Thousand children and women Impacted

 
 

Our Programmes

We focus on the nexus of water-food-energy to better the health and livelihoods of rural communities of Zambia, the demographic that is historically left behind.

 

water boreholes and sanitation

Clean water is the source of healthy life and fundamental to food security. Our borehole drilling program targets local communities without easy access water on a daily basis. Hand pumps supply community water for living and small scale irrigated farming.

Communities are provided with education on basic healthcare and sanitation to cut the incidence of illness.
 

RENEWABLE ENERGY PROGRAMme

We aim to extend the quality of life through the access to solar (PV) power, vital for all manner of home facilities and access to information, news and communication.

We teach how to reuse discarded maize cobs for fuel cooking to minimise the need for charcoal, which is responsible for much of our deforestation.

Access to electricity improves schooling and health of the family and community as well as helping process farm produce.

TRAINING IN SUSTAINABLE FARMING

We train young farmers in techniques for sustainable farming that preserve soil quality, reduce water evaporation, deforestation and cut the need for harmful and expensive chemicals.

The farmers learn how to trade and bank their takings to build their financial skills to outlast each farming season and provide for the needs of their families.
 

FARM SHARING AND FARM JOBS

We rent farmland for cultivation of crops. This rent sharing scheme provides jobs and food security.

We aim to produce vegetables such as cassava, sweet potatoes, ground nuts beans, maize, sorghum, soya, millet, sunflowers, rape, onions, and pumpkins.

On a longer term horizon, we aim to set up dairy farm, chicken rearing, and goat farms.

 
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Volunteer

We are looking for volunteers with or without technical or teaching skills.

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Any donation is gratefully received on a monthly or one-off basis. WE THANK YOU FOR ANY DONATION!