DLOVUNGA – World Vision Eswatini is still a most consistent perpetrator of improved standards of living in the Kingdom of Eswatini. Their support in communal development goes a long way in improving lives, and saving an unknown number of Emaswati from terrible fates due to lack.
A most appreciated accomplishment has been the completion of the Dlovunga Potable Water and Sanitation Project.
“My niece fell and died whilst getting water from the reservoir”, said a Dlovunga community member in a statement published by World Vision.
“After this horrible experience, the Dlovunga community came together in 2015 to raise a funding committee that would support a community water project. This was in an effort to find a solution to their water woes. These included the dirty water they consumed, travelling long distances to obtain water, the risk of slipping and falling into the water source, amongst others,” reveals the statement.
It continues to explain that “Succeeding these efforts; in 2018, the community then approached World Vision Eswatini for assistance. The organisation, working in partnership with the Eswatini Water Services Corporation (EWSC), requested that the community contributes 20% towards making the project a success.”
“This project has also improved our children’s health as their hygiene has greatly improved,” says one of the community members.
The statement comes barely a week after World Vision Eswatini organised 80 bags of 50kg cement from Afrisam, “which will go towards fencing of a five-hectare pasture for a goat project for persons of concern (refugees and asylum seekers) at Malindza and Ndzevane.”
An impressive aspect of World Vision Eswatini programmes is that they last, and World Vision checks up on them. For example, the recently checked in with Nkiliji community where they protected a spring in 2014 to help reduce contamination of the water from the spring.
World Vision is currently celebration 30 years of transforming children’s lives Eswatini.
