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Our Projects in Zambia
TICO has been conducting various Humanitarian and Development Activities since 1997 in Zambia.
As you may know, in 2002, Zambia was hit by a nation-wide drought and more than 12,000,000 suffered from starvation. People suffered from starvation and even had to eat the maize seeds which were supposed to be kept for next year’s cultivation. For 6 months since October 2002, TICO operated emergency relief work for alleviating starvation.
TICO has been tackling difficult situations from multiple aspects. And through lessons learned from above mentioned extensive experiences, we elaborated our approach focusing on indispensable 4 pillars in human livelihood, named “WAHE (Water/Agriculture/Health/Education) package” for the comprehensive community development.
Ongoing Projects
Rural Health Care Project (Momboshi area)
- It is not easy life for people in rural area without any access to health care. Before this project, the nearest health institution was about 37km away from the center of Momboshi, which is about 3-15km away from most of people reside in this area.
- Therefore, this project is aimed to improve access to health care system for people in Momboshi, and then to provide the community some trainings and knowledge on primary health care, targeting especially to mothers and children under 5-year-old, in order to ensure the community can help themselves.
1. Rural Primary Health Care Project in Chibombo District (Aug. 2007 – May 2010)
- 1) Construction of the health post
- 2) Training of community health volunteers on PHC and nutrition
- 3) Building a framework for the health post and community health workers
- 4) Nutrition improvement for mother and under 5
2. Project for safer pregnancy/delivery sustained by the local community in Chibombo District (Oct. 2010 – ongoing)
- 1) Construction of Maternity Waiting Home
- 2) Training of community volunteers as Safe Motherhood Action Group:SMAG)
- 3) Providing a nutrition classes to mothers by SMAG
- 4) Conducting survey on dynamic trends in Momboshi population by SMAG
Ngombe Compound livelihood Improvement Project (Lusaka city)
The objective of this project was to improve a nutrition and health situation especially targeted to mothers who had children with malnutrition within one of residency areas called Ngombe compound.
The Center was handed over to the management team and Steering Committee since 2002, and today, local staffs operates in a manner of self-reliance from generating incomes through participating Saturday bazaar and sales of commodities and other creative methods.
This is the oldest and very successful project that TICO has conducted.
Community School Infrastructure Assistance (Momboshi area)
For the communities who wish to improve their livelihood including drought-resistant capacity, it is very important to ensure their children can access to the education. There, however, are so many children in Zambia who cannot go to public schools by several reasons, including a long distance with no transportation.
In fact, parents are giving their best effort to develop community schools instead within a walking distance, yet the facility standards and its seating capacity tend to be inadequate because of lack of support from the government and difficulty to fund themselves.
Therefore, TICO now supports the infrastructure of community schools, aiming to improve the environment of rural educational conditions.
- Masaka Community School (2007)
- Momba School Science Lab (2008) supported by Otawa Foundation
- Nkonje Community School (2010-ongoing)
Rural Development Loan (Chipembi Area)
TICO raise funds in Japan in order to invest in the small business which people in Chipembi area come up. We lend them funds neither with collateral or interest and conduct trainings for them to acquire necessary skills and knowledge for running the business. We have so far lent to 17 groups and 23 projects including poultry and corner stores by Aug, 2010.
Agroforestry Project (Chipembi Area)
In Zambia, the issue of soil degradation due to over-usage of chemical fertilizer is becoming increasingly serious. The poorer the farmers could be, the less fertilizer they could buy, which means the lower harvests they end up.
TICO has been collaborating with Chipembi Farm College to rejuvenate the soil by promoting to plant fertilizer trees and leguminous plants for fixing nitrogen on the soil. We also promote crop-rotation in order to avoid too much dependency to single crop.
Recycled animal dip tank project (Chipembi area)
Livestock are very important assets for Zambian people. Among some tribes, many cows are needed as betrothal gift. What could be fatal to these livestock are infectious diseases mediated by mites. Many cows were lost from Corridor disease in a couple of years ago.
TICO assisted a renovation of several cow dip-tanks in this community built many years ago, in cooperation with local vet, so as for the local farmers help themselves to prevent further spread of livestock’s diseases.
*Dip tanks are now handed over to local committee.
Emergency Response Project by Sister organization (Sustainable Community Development Programme)
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