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Meet Sandra

Sandra is a farmer in Saidi, a village in Zambia’s Eastern Province. Each day, Sandra has to travel more than 30 minutes to the nearest water point. She needs the water to execute basic household chores as well as to attend to her farm in times of poor rainfall. The problem she faces is lack of adequate access to a functional water point which would enable her to be more productive.

With AccessMvura, she has access to a functional water point within 30 minutes of her home through a community borehole. She is also able to mitigate the impact of climate change through improved access to water and sanitation as it affects the most vulnerable. This is so in the case of droughts, which affect her ability to have a successful harvest, through access to water points which enable her to reduce vulnerability by enabling food security for herself and her community.