The strategy
The strategic plan of PAMO
o.n.l.u.s. is to create a unit of activity, managed by Zambian
people, who working in harmony with each other, sparks off a virtuous
cycle of development.
The final objective is to better the local conditions of life and to
avoid that the population is forced to leave their land in order to
survive.
The development strategy deals with three main problems which afflict
Zambia i.e.:
- the sanitary emergency;
- the nutritional emergency and the shortage of
drinking water;
- the growing problem of orphans and the lack of
schools,
and encouraging the growth of economical activities
independently managed by the inhabitants of the villages.
As far as the sanitary problem
is concerned work is already being done via:
- the "Mobile Clinic", precisely through nurses who visit
daily one of the fifteen villages included in the project where there
is no form whatsoever of medical assistance;
- the "Hospital" which is operative in a locality
called Chipongwe (27 kilometers South of Lusaka) where no other
sanitary structures exist;
- "Assistance at domicile" to assist the sick who
need long term care, moribund patients or people needing assistance
because they have no one to look after them or are no longer
self-sufficient.
Concerning the serious problem of lack of food but above all with
regards to the lack of potable water a programme "Adopt a village" has
been set up in order to provide some villages with a well from which to
draw drinkable water and so fight the high mortality in newly born
babies being poisoned due to polluted water.
A "School" has been opened to
contribute towards the problem of education where 100 children will
receive primary education.
The hospital, the mobile clinic and the school wouldn’t have a sure
future unless a productive unit is activated to produce the resources
necessary for their maintenance. These resources will be supplied by
the Farm which will produce foodstuffs to the two service units as well
as financial support to guarantee the continuity of the entire
initiative over the years.
The Farm must, furthermore, be inclusive of an agricultural school not
only for pupils from the village but equally for the small local
farmers.
Summing up PAMO o.n.l.u.s.’s strategic objective is that to be in a position, within four-five years, to have not only a self-sufficient nucleus but to have created an entity which produces expansion; which involves the local population and is such that everyone is able to stay near to the land where they are living.