Mporokoso Project, Zambia

See the progress you helped make happen in your sponsored community

See the progress you helped make happen in your sponsored child’s community

When the project started in 2006, children and their families were vulnerable due to poor sanitation and lack of access to safe and clean water. Children in the community also suffered from malnutrition, along with limited access to basic health services.

Thanks to your support, children in the Mporokoso community have improved access to nutritious food, clean water, education and greater child protection, all greatly improving their wellbeing.

Together we've achieved so much

15 boreholes were drilled and equipped with hand pumps

This benefitted over 3,000 community members. Another 20 existing boreholes were repaired.

Four schools and one health facility were equipped with improved sanitation facilities, reaching over 10,000 teachers, students and community members. Training for pump minders and sanitation champions was also provided to assist in maintaining equipment and hygiene practices.

The number of households living below the national poverty line decreased from 80 percent to 71 percent

A strong focus of the project was to train small scale farmers and individuals on better farming techniques.

This includes drip irrigation and growing crops better suited to the local climate. Women were assisted in developing sustainable income generation activities and savings groups were established.

This successful approach helped to reduce the number of households living below the national poverty line.

The rate of children under five years of age with stunted growth dropped to 45 percent

In 2008, the rate of children under five years of age suffering from stunted growth was 56 percent.

The project focused on protecting children from diseases like malaria, and educating adolescents on how HIV and AIDS could be transmitted or prevented. By the end of the project, the proportion of children under five reported to have malaria decreased from 17 percent to 14 percent. The proportion of adolescents with comprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS transmission and prevention increased from 17 percent to 31 percent.