By Sr. Emerita McGann, CDP | Congregation of Divine Providence
Hasbro, Inc. established the PROJECT ZAMBI Fund to support programs that provide for the care and comfort of children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. ZAMBI THE BABY ELEPHANT was the first charitable initiative of the fund and was introduced as a result of the creative collaboration and dedication of impassioned Hasbro employees. PROJECT ZAMBI has since helped over 82,000 orphans in Africa. Below is a brief report from one of the PROJECT ZAMBI grant recipients:
One of the most urgent survival needs on the Island of Madagascar continues to be clean water.
Project Zambi has brought this precious gift to the people of Bealanana, a small city located in western Madagascar. The population of the city and surrounding villages is approximately 5000. One of the Project Zambi wells is located on the outskirts of the city close to a large school complex (5 buildings and a boarding school) staffed by the Sisters of Divine Providence, Madagascar. The new well is open to people of the village as well as to the 600 children attending the school. Formally the majority of children and the poor people of the area did their bathing or got their drinking water from the Bealanana River. The addition of a second well helps to irrigate the gardens that supply food to the children. This river has been and continues to be the source of many deaths among the children.
The second well is located at Ambendrana, Antsohihy. Water from this well not only provides clean drinking water for the Sisters of Divine Providence but is also is used to water the gardens that provide food for the sisters and the poor among them. Before the well was in place, the sisters had to buy bottled water for drinking and put out bins to collect rain water to irrigate the garden during the dry season. Buying bottled water is very expensive and the money saved is now used to help feed and clothe the poor.
The third well is located in Lokomby, a very poor village located in the province of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar. This third well is located a school courtyard. It serves the people of the surrounding area and the 300 children attending the school.
Submitted by,
Sr. Emerita McGann, CDP
Congregation of Divine Providence
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