Mkushi rural benefits from Noor Helping Hands initiative

MATHEWS NDANDULA from Mkushi writes MKUSHI residents in Masanza area now have access to clean water following the sinking of a borehole and installation of a borehole by Noor Helping Hands in conjunction with Sadaqah Ummah. Noor Helping Hands regional director Austin Isma’il Phiri said the community development project was made possible through crowd finding targeting vulnerable children and the elderly in rural areas with assorted aid. “We are actually here for the vulnerable people in society … we are here to also share a livestock farming knowledge as well as distribute some a second hand clothes also and to see other things that we can try to do for this community, God willing, in the coming days,” Phiri said. The regional director said other community programmes will focus on HIV and AIDS sensitisation, awareness raising on the dangers of early marriages which have so far emerged in most rural areas as a result of poverty. He notes that empowerment programmes will keep the community members busy and sustain their lives other than being caught up in vices such as marrying off young children instead of sending them to school. And the recipients have thanked the donors for coming to their aid more especially at a time when the country has corona virus which has affected most of their programmes. So far Chirundu, Chipata and some communities in Southern province have benefited from their initiative. The Sun