Zambia Project
Zambia project
Zambia Nutrition Program Update
October, 2025
We are happy to share that the village of Sindowe has a completed canal, complete with siphons and water flowing for the future community gardens.
The canal offers relief to the gardens during the dry months from June to October.
Digging and forming the long canal was completed by the villagers and is a celebration for the families in the area that will benefit from nutritious gardens.
August, 2025
I'm pleased to announce that the Rotary Zambia project is continuing to improve the growth of children in the Zimba region of Zambia.
I'm pleased to announce that the Rotary Zambia project is continuing to improve the growth of children in the Zimba region of Zambia.
We have completed a water grant in a remote area by the name of Masanzya making water more accessible to families using innovative strategies.
Pictured below is a solar upgrade to a water source in a rural village. Nutritious gardens are an important part of the nutrition program.
This Rotary Global Grant was implemented by the SAM project, our friends from Canada.
Another grant supported by Rotary was implemented in a village named Lifilale. This provided water, agricultural inputs and nutritional training.
We learned from our experience that we need to start working with pregnant mothers before birth so that they were well-nourished during their pregnancy.
Thanks to generous support from independent donors, The Lincoln East Rotary Foundation and First Plymouth Church in Lincoln, we can continue our project for 5 additional years. We are currently working with 40 mothers in 2 villages. The babies are gaining weight, but some are stunted i.e. short for their age.
We are addressing this pervasive problem together with intensive counseling conducted by volunteer Zambian nutrition promoters.
The addition of cow milk to the diet at 1 year of age is being added this year, 2025.
Research is telling us that milk will stimulate growth hormone, the substance in the body that promotes linear growth.
We also are funding a chicken project with a solar powered incubator which will provide needed protein for the children.
We have a great local staff that is dedicated to the project and we meet weekly by WhatsAp, the free phone app that allows for long distance communication.
One of the club's members, Rick Wilson, is currently in Zambia monitoring the improvement of dams along with the Engineers Without Borders. Our past president Andrew Mwape, a native Zambian is continuing to encourage tree projects in Zambia.
We invite interested folks to contact us to see how they might contribute to the project and to join our club to be a part of this incredible work!
Chuck Erickson