The land on which it is
intended to build the hospital complex and on which the School will be
made, is part of a vast area of approximately six hundred hectares made
available to the Zambian Helpers Society.
Three hundred of these six hundred hectares are farmable and would be
sufficient to produce the resources for the upkeep of the hospital and
to collaborate towards the School.
Today only eighty hectares are farmed and a minimum part irrigated. The
results are far from satisfactory.
With the help of experts in this sector a development project has been
set down via which, in a four-year span, three hundred hectares will be
farmed.
After much research a local person had been found and this task has been
assigned to him – the development programme so was given a start.
The first phase, started during July 2002, consisted in:
- start up of
vegetable cultivation with a drip irrigation system;
- opening of three new wells;
- the purchase of a second hand tractor powerful enough to plough deeply
the soil and to sow maize and Soya-bean
- the purchase of irrigators to compensate in temporary periods of
drought.
The cost to cover this first lot of investment is equal to 45.000 Euro and here we ask for the help of our benefactors. We believe that if many small contributions are put together in the end it is possible to complete big projects.
