Plan Brings Clean Water to Malawian Residents

Every day in the Kamtsizi and Mazaza villages, of Njewa, Malawi, families turn on taps at shared water points and out flows clean, fresh water for drinking, cooking, washing, and bathing. This may seem unremarkable, but not too long ago, this wasn’t the case.

For years, residents of these two villages had been using contaminated water from unprotected sources such as streams and dambos, the Malawian name for wetlands. This water would be used for cooking and drinking.

“We suffered from recurrent bouts of diarrhea due to lack of safe water and proper sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices,” says Henderson Mbendera, secretary for the Kamtsizi-Mazaza Village Health Committee.

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