Objectives: To reconstruct the existing water system (sourced from the local spring) and the two reservoirs so that the local community have access to clean water.

 

Intended beneficiaries: Water will be available to the two school dormitories, the hospital, church, two schools priest's house. The whole community will benefit particularly the women and children who carry water everyday on their heads. The mission has 59 communities with a population of 10,000.

 

Description activities: The St Benedict Mission under the Diocese of Lwena was destroyed by war in Angola in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since 2005 the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart have been rebuilding the community. The school, dormitory for girls and hospital have all reopended. MSC provided AUD$25,000.00 to fund the reconstruction of the old water system and two water reservoirs. The local community contributed by producing local materials such as gravel and sand, made cement blocks to reconstruct the two water reservoirs and assisted in digging and canalisation. Before applying for assistance from MSC, local youths had already cleaned the whole area, the diocese had supplied a truck to transport gravel, sand and cement blocks, and the youths made the cement blocks in the river banks. 

 

Progress  to date: This project was aproved in december of 2007 and has now been completed. 

 

Budget: As set out in the application attached the funding provided by MSC included the costs of materials and transportation of those materials from Lwena to Cazombo.