Our Programmes focus on water-food-energy

 
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Water

Clean accessible water nurtures life

 

water Borehole drilling 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.

 
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Food

Training coupled with farm land

training and promotion of sustainable farming

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

The training teaches students how to rotate crops and use trees as part of the farm without the need for constant deforestation.

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.

Next we want to provide a part of the family land to set aside for others to farm. In exchange for a small portion of their crops, the community benefits from access to land, support and infrastructure.

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, fish and goat farms.

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Energy

Solar big and small is our most ambitious programme bringing power to rural Zambia

renewable energy program

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.The use of discarded maize cobs can be used for fuel for 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.