The
weather at night was so chilly in Zambia. It reminded me of cool autumn weather
in South Korea. I did not wait in the long line, so I ran directly to get
Zambia visa. However, I realized that there was so simple step to obtain the
visa; no paperwork, paying $80 for multiple entries, getting a receipt, and
good to go! All processes were finished within a minute. I already love Zambia!
I
got off the airplane at 8:50pm and exited the airport at 9:15pm. Everything
seemed to go so smoothly, and I tried to find Doreen and driver from World
Vision. ‘Where are they?’ I was in
outside so early, so have they not arrived yet? After 5 minutes, people who I
was looking for were getting out of the airport. They were waiting for me inside.
“Welcome to Zambia!” said Doreen.
I
spent 3 days in the guesthouse in Lusaka, the capital city in Zambia, and
introduced myself to National Office staff. My project for Zambia and Malawi is
to analyze Lives Save Tool (LiST) to evaluate water, sanitation and hygiene
(WASH) project in Southern African Region (SAR). World Vision promoted the
campaign, <Every child deserves clean water>,
and it has become the leading NGO that drills wells in the developing
world. World Vision has been working closely with the academic institution, the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) to research, repair, and remain
the well operations.
World Vision’s efforts to provide clean water in African
countries succeed in reaching one new person with clean water from well every
30 seconds. West African countries have already received benefit from
sustainable clean water, and World Vision has expanded this WASH intervention
to SAR since 2010: DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia. It is good to be here
in Zambia because I can contribute how much WASH project in SAR has been
effective to community people by showing retrospective estimated number of
lives saved from 2010 to current.
Until every single child have access to clean water in
Africa, we will keep it up!
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| - From FEC ZWASH FY13 Semiannual Report |
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