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20 March 2007
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Since October 2005, Blantyre Urban Area Development Programme (ADP) has:
Health and sanitation
- Constructed a shallow well and repaired two other wells, which has quickly reduced the incidence of water-borne disease
- Trained 36 people to construct improved latrines
- Held monthly cholera awareness meetings
- Surveyed nutrition levels in children under 5 in the communities; 102 children identified as malnourished were registered and provided with high-energy food
- Stocked the first aid kits in nine primary schools; this will reduce absenteeism caused by illness
Education
- Provided 1,200 library books for nine schools
- Provided 180 two-seat desks for two primary schools
- Assisted 132 students with school fees and 100 students with school uniforms
- Awarded prizes to the best-performing students
- Held four career guidance talks in schools
- Held meetings with parents to encourage education and sharing of the cost of school fees
- Assisted 18 teenagers to attend vocational-training classes
- Celebrated National Education Day by creating awareness of girls’ rights to education
Economic development
- Supported 33 village banks, which provided small loans for 900 people to start or expand their small businesses
Leadership development
- Trained members of two community-based organisations in development management and registered the organisations with the government
- Trained 18 community leaders to manage development activities
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Blantyre Urban project profile
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