Thanks to you: You support has meant that 4,718 children and their families now have access to clean drinking water, many for the first time in their lives.

Better facilities have also made a huge difference to the children’s school performance and attendance.

• It now takes far less time to fetch water for cooking porridge and food as the well is only 30 meters from the classroom.
• Porridge is no longer brown as it is prepared withclean water and the utensils are kept clean muchmore easily
• The children can now drink water from the boreholethroughout breaks during the school day, meaningthey are better able to concentrate in class.
• The pupils are able to wash themselves after games lessons, which they couldn’t do in the pond before, for fear of snake bites.
• Five neighbouring villages, with an estimated population of 2,405, benefit from the using the borehole when the children are in class or during the evenings or weekend.

The new classroom blocks have been completed and villagers and children were welcomed to the blessing of the school on 28 April 2010. Kitemba Primary School now has enough room to accommodate 700 children from the local area. Since September, all pupils have been enjoying a seat to themselves in the classroom – a real treat! The three-seated benches are a far cry from sitting on the classroom floor in previous years.