Social project
The Women's club
A club for the women of the complex has been encouraged. This group of women help one another to better their manual hand-craft abilities both for things for their families as well as for those to sell. Our organisation's objective is to stimulate and co-ordinate them by providing a room for meetings and by offering loans with which to finance the purchase of the necessary basic raw materials.
The village wells
To date six wells have been made functional to provide drinkable water to the six relative villages. Each well supplies drinkable water to 150/200 families and save many children from intestinal infections which are one of the main causes of infant death. The installation of each well costs Euro 4,500.
Village visiting rooms
Covered shelters have been built in some villages where the nurses, from the mobile clinic, can visit and care for the sick. The relative village is supplied with the basic raw material such as cement, roofing, doors and windows. The inhabitants of the villages are responsible for making the bricks and erecting and completing the shelter.
Preventive and care programme against HIV/AIDS
The
problem of HIV/AIDS must be approached with a global vision of the
problem. The knowledge, education, prevention, analysis, cure,
psychologic and moral assistance as well as the care of the orphans
are the main aspects to take into account, with
a global vision,
if we want to take on the challenge and fight against this infection.
This
programme will be strongly boosted, hopefully in January of 2009, by
a project to distribute anti-retroviral
medicine.
We
feel it is worthwhile drawing your attention to a recent initiative
where a group of sero-positive
people, twenty five for the moment, have got together to live their
experience from “a positive point of view.”
They meet every
Thursday, in rooms made available to them in our structure, to make
objects which are then sold. The earned money is put into a communal
'kitty' which can be used, when necessary, for things such as
expenses incurred due to the necessity of having to take some form of
transport when special treatment is needed or for other general
emergency requirements.
Help through the distribution of food
Apart from helping the poor in times of scarcity or when in dire need we have allocated land to the local inhabitants so than they can grow, under our help and guidance, their own products. We therefore have a site destined to the hospital workers, to the home care volunteer and so on. The school children's allotment is a different matter since they learn to cultivate products which are necessary for their school canteen.
The flour Mill
A mill, to grind the maize, is functional and the people pay a modest sum if they have their maize ground there.
The Carpentry school/workshop
Another
part of the puzzle in the creation of the “Lukamantano Village”
has been the construction of the Carpentry school\workshop using the
machinery donated by Mr. Costantino Sana. The first objects to be
made were the shelves, desks and tables for the school so proceeding
to then make chest of drawers, beds and chairs for external
customers.
The
aim is to have a high quality product so to be able to compete with
imported goods.
During
the second term of 2008 our first four students were admitted, with
the approval from the competent authorities.
The
training of the young is a fundamental point since if, through our
school, we give a basic preparation, we must also think about the
future of these children and know whether, for a few worthy students,
we are in a position to ensure that they continue their studies
offering them financial contributions or via student grants.
For
the others we must provide a professional formation. The
agricultural school, the Carpentry school and the Dress-makers school
fulfil these objectives.
