World Vision ends school’s water woes
Thembelihle Mhlanga
World Vision has come to the rescue of a primary school in Lupane by providing a solar powered sand abstraction system to pump water from a local river.
Kwesemvubu Primary School at Malunku Ward in Lupane has been operating without water since time immemorial until World Vision came through and provided the precious liquid.
Lupane Cluster Programmes Manager for World Vision Mrs Sibongumusa Ncube said that since the time she came efforts have been tried to provide water in this community but to no avail.
“Prior to the donation, Kwesemvubu Primary school learners had to bring their own water to the school as there was no source of water serve for a shallow well belonging to a villager which is almost 3 kilometres away from the school thereby posing a health hazard to both learners and teachers.
World Vision through its Spanish funding partner FERROVIL have come to the rescue of the school and the community in general by providing two and a half kilometre piped water from Tshangane River using the solar-powered sand abstraction technology.
“We chose this method after previous players failed to get water after hitting on the coal bed rendering the water inconsumable by the human being, but the method they chose provides clean and safe water,” said Ncube.
The mechanism consists of a sucked borehole in the river sand, a submersible pump and a 2.1 kilometre pipeline, a purification unit and two by 10000 litre Jojo tanks.
“Interestingly the community is guarding the infrastructure jealously against any vandalism and theft for the benefit of the school and the community at large” said Mrs Ncube
A cheerful learner at Kwesemvubu School Mandisi Ndlovu said that it was a dream come true to have water in the school. “We are so excited that finally we now have water at our school and can now clean our toilets and have safe drinking water,” said Mandisi.
