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|  | | Mwancheka Well, (Malawi) | | | | | | For the villagers of Mwancheka in Malawis Kaphuka Project area the risk of diarrhoea and stomach infections was ever present, the spectre of cholera a threat which was never far away.
That was until last year, when Self Help teamed up with the regional Water Department and drew up plans for the construction of a community shallow well to service the drinking water needs of the 95 households in the locality.
A series of meetings were convened with the community, and after locals had been trained by the Ministry in building techniques and by Self Help in the future management and administration of the utility, a working rota of villagers began digging, baking the necessary curved well bricks, and set to work on the construction of a new shallow well for Mwancheka.
Building of the well finished just recently, and a manual low-maintenance Marda hand-pump provided by Self Help is to be installed at the completed well in the near future.
In order to ensure the sustainability of the project into the future, villagers have agreed to pay 10 Malawian kwacha (7 cent) per month to a well management committee towards the future upkeep and maintenance of the pump and utility.
The pump is the 17th such shallow well to have been developed by Self Help in the Kaphuka Project area.
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