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29 August 2005
Snippets
The following are some achievements in the Nakonde ADP since October 2004:
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School anti-AIDS clubs teach children
how to prevent HIV infection.
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Health and Sanitation
- Conducted a campaign which assisted 1,320 families to rid their homes of mosquito breeding grounds and thus prevent malaria.
- Held nine meetings in schools and communities to educate people on bilharzias (schistosomiasis) and its prevention.
- Promoted the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and provided health workers with anti malaria medicine.
- Immunised over 1,000 children against tuberculosis, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, poliomyelitis and tetanus.
HIV/AIDS
- Paid school fees and provided school materials for 191 orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.
- Supported eight school anti-AIDS clubs.
- Trained 25 teachers to educate their classes about HIV prevention.
- Supported five home-based care programmes, providing care and support for 362 people.
- Supplied over 300 chronically ill patients with medicine to treat opportunistic infections and high energy protein supplements.
Education
- Began construction of a three classroom block.
- Supported 800 orphans and vulnerable children to attend school.
- Supported 52 young people to take part in vocational training courses in mechanics, carpentry, tailoring and tie-dye.
Agriculture and food security
- Held 20 nutrition demonstrations.
- Provided vegetable, soya bean, groundnut, pea and pumpkin seeds to four nutrition clubs, which distributed them to over 300 households.
- Supplied hoes to 235 farmers.
- Formed 23 farmers groups and trained 23 demonstration farmers who will work closely with government departments and advise the groups on modern agricultural methods.
- Established seed multiplication demonstration fields and held four farmers field days to promote the seed multiplication project.
- Trained farmers in sustainable practises, such as fertiliser application, crop spacing and weeding, in association with the Ministry of Agriculture.
- Trained farmers to use oxen to plough their fields. The oxen start by learning to pull logs and that gradually adapt to a plough. Oxen plough fields in one-tenth of the time it takes a family of four people.
- Constructed grain storage bins for 25 female-headed households.
Community Leadership
- Held need-identification meetings in all villages of the ADP. Community members discussed and ranked the priorities for their village.
- Held a three day workshop to train community leaders to manage local development projects through the Tulemane Development Trust, a community-based organisation.
- Provided materials such as timber and window and door frames for the TDT centre. Construction of this centre has brought together the community as they work side by side.
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Nakonde project profile
NAKONDE STORY ARCHIVE
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Good news from Nakonde
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Counting down
Exciting changes in Nakonde
2006
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The benefit of good nutrition
2005
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Land of her own
Keep healthy
2004
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What class!
2003
Seed capital
Taking charge
Nakonde newbies
Last laughs
A matter of health
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2002
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