UK: Rotary Club bid to bring clean drinking water to Zimbabwe community

UK: Rotary Club bid to bring clean drinking water to Zimbabwe community

By Central Fife Times


COWDENBEATH Rotary Club in Scotland is on target to have the funding in place to help a Zimbabwe community get a running water supply by the spring.

The club’s involvement in this project came after club president, Hank John, met a local clergyman from the Arcadia community in the southern African country.

Hank said: “The clergyman was at an event I was at in Buckhaven and said that it would cost £2,000 to create the well and supply mechanism, and it occurred to me that a couple of years ago we were able to help a community in Kenya get an educational facility, thanks to raising funds for them with the help of a District 1010 grant.

“An inquiry showed that something similar could be achieved for this Zimbabwean community, and we have managed to get a grant of £1,200 towards the target.”

He added that the ZELA organisation, which works hard at trying to improve water and sanitary issues in countries like Zimbabwe, reports that residents in urban areas have had to dig wells without being able to follow proper regulations.

They say that groundwater ends up getting contaminated, resulting in diseases, so the rotary club’s commitment to the project could make a real difference to everyday life for the people of Arcadia.

This week Hank went on: “We have so far have raised £1,650 and with a couple of fund-raising activities coming up we are hopeful that we will have the money in place to allow the development of the water system in Arcadia by the early spring.”

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