This year The Attias
Group will dig at least 2
wells in South Luangwa.
Each well will last 30 years
and supplies 250 families
a day with clean water.
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
SMALL VILLAGES, BIG PROBLEMS
The small villages of the Mfuwe area are typical
of those in many rural areas of Africa. Water is
typically only available from rivers and streams,
or by digging simple wells in dried riverbeds.
This water is often unclean and a source of many
water borne diseases.
The water can be a long way from the village, a
potentially dangerous journey on foot, usually
by women and children.
The provision of a central, easily accessible
source of safe, clean drinking water is an
immense benefit to the entire community. Each
well improves the daily lives of hundreds of
people…especially the children.
With access to safe, clean water, people are able
to achieve a much better balance between their
needs and those of the environment. People can
only appreciate the need for conservation when
the daily demands of their own lives are met.
The gift of something as simple and basic as
clean water goes a long way to fulfilling those
demands and helps to ensure the preservation
of a unique area where the needs of the human
and natural world are too often in conflict.