CHCs in Masvingo thatt were formed 12 years ago (2010) in Masvingo City have evolved into Community Based Organizations involved in waste management in which they collect discarded plastics which they sell to a local company that makes plastic bags and poly pipes….
Gutu District in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe was one of the 9 districts which were heavily hit by the Tropical Cyclone Idai in March 2019, resulting in most water and sanitation infrastructure being damaged. An estimated population of 270 000 in total, including 129 600 were affected by flooding and other damages caused by Cyclone. The …
Building resilience in Gutu District after Cyclone Idai Read More »
The Founders Juliet and Anthony Waterkeyn went on their annual tour of the programme in Zimbabwe to see how the team were doing in Makoni District where the SKAT funded project was revamping CHCs and installing Rope & Washer pumps for a self supply water project. However whilst the technology was disappointing the CHC methodology …
Juliet meets Juliet – an insight into the sustainability of good hygiene Read More »
Field Trip to Makoni District by CEO 6th December 2018 SKAT is supporting the introduction of locally fabricated Rope & Washer pumps in Makoni District and Africa AHEAD has been working with the communities to install around 60 of these new pumps, replacing the conventional upgraded family well which for the past 30 years has …
Reported by the Swift Consortium / Tearfund Fikiri Madisi, age 42 and father of nine children is a teacher. “On the return from our displacement camps, we had no toilets and bathrooms or clean water,” he reports, remembering his early return to Congo after a decade of refuge life. Fikiri lives in Mwandiga, a small …
In the face of the El Nino induced drought in Sub Saharan Africa, communities have to raise their vigilance against WASH related diseases. Action Contra la Faim has invited Africa AHEAD to partner once again to use the CHC approach to mitigate against emergencies, so as to avoid a cholera outbreak such as the one …
Emergency Humanitarian Response to the El Nino in Zimbabwe Read More »
