Welcome
Hello and welcome to the Zambian International Health Alliance -Z.I.H.A website. Our site is new, so you will continue to see changes to the content in the coming months. We welcome you to continue to check our site for new updates about our organization and the cause we are supporting in Zambia Population: 12 million .Below poverty line: 86% (1993).GDP per capita: $1, 400 (2007) .Life expectancy: 39 years.People living with HIV / AIDS: 920 000(2003)
64% of rural areas about 2,000,000 school chidren in the primary level live without access to clean drinking water
13 700 deaths occur every year as a result of unsafe drinking water.
The Zambian International Health Alliance -ZIHA mission is to promote Zambia's Cross -Cultural understaing through education, reconciliation and Peace by working together as a people seeking for developmental solutions that can make a better life for all !
ZAMBIAN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ALLIANCE
Z.I.H.A
We are Creating a Culture of Non Political Violence ,Democracy and Good Governance
We are now working on setting up a Center on Non Violence in Zambia
"The Brain Drian is the underdeveloped Nation's global warming "
ELECTORAL CONFLICTS & POLITICAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION IN ZAMBIA TOWARDS THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS.
Zambia has a serious problem with political violence. It permeates the very structure of our community - our families, our schools , political parties and leaders in our neighborhoods. Political violence transcends geographical, tribal , economic , gender and more political boundaries. Its costs are incalculable, In real dollars , money from the donor community is spent on funding political violence and not law enforcement in the right manner, the criminal justice system , penal facilities are used for mistreating political victims as offenders from the opposition. Costs are also found when the abused electorates cannot choose freely the person they need to represent them and therefore can not live up to their potential, when victimized opposition leaders cannot oppose adequately and when some government employees are fired for being family members of some opposition members or personal friends due to political violence. This program will represent the first nationwide attempt to prevent political violence activities in Zambia. The Zambian International Health Alliance spearhead the program for Electoral Conflicts and Political Prevention Initiative.
Recent News
4/2/2010 - New Website Launch
On 4/2/2010, we launched our new website. We invite you to take a look around the website and tell your friends to come see us too by using our new Spread the Word website tool.
Adopt -A-Water Well in Rural Zambia
With its stunning beauty and rich natural resources, Africa is still ravaged by its limited access to safe water supplies. 750,000 children die each year from diarrheal diseases alone in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, in rural Zambia over 2,000,000 children attending primary schools without safe water.
With help from health partners around the world, we can meet the needs of the children of Zambia by adopting a water well. In May 2009 we began work on a project that will, when complete, ensure that all village primary-school students in rural Zambia will have access to safe drinking water.
The long-term success of our work is dependent upon the local community taking ownership of their own water resources. As with nearly all our projects, we begin by training staff from local villages, churches, schools, and community groups. These teams will work with our Adopt-A-Water Well staff on a daily basis to complete 50 water wells at roughly by December, 2010. A typical school in rural Zambia will have three or four school buildings for children from the first grade through eighth grade and they need a water -well on site to give then fresh water .
The cost for restoring the water well is about $ 365 to keep the water well running for one year and in good standing .
Churches and groups of friends, here is an opportunity! If you are interested in "adopting" a water well in Zambia so that it can provide safe water for its school children , please make your donation now to save a life. We will keep you updated along the way with everything from construction progress to photos and stories from the students themselves. Whether you raise enough for a small school or an entire community campus, what you do will make a huge difference in the lives of these children, their teachers, and the future of this Zambia!
We need you are help through sponsorship programs, gift donations, and volunteer work to make a difference. If you feel you can help us (Go to the donation page) We certain you will bless our work! You can help by donating money or personally taking action or joining our programs which as you may wish and help provide for the school kids in need, administer water and medicine, and educate/train people in Zambia. There are countless ways!
Just remember: although it doesn't seem like your small monetary donation will put even much of a dent on this huge epidemic, and your efforts alone likely won't solve it over night, every little bit does help. It has to start somewhere with someone! If one person, and then 10 and then hundreds and then thousands, millions, then everyone were to make small contributions and efforts to help such a cause... Then we will find a sure solution and way to help! Thanks for the concern and efforts
A folklore story from my Zambian Village …
By Oliver Mupila
This a folklore from my village in Zambia, Africa as told to me many, many years ago by my late grand mother when I lived in the same place where many of precious children are lost to illness due to lack of fresh water. For many years folk tales and myths serve as a means of handling down traditions and customs from one generation to the next. For a long, long time stories have been passed down by word of mouth. Often they where told by the light of the moon around a village after the completion of a long day work. The story telling tradition has thrived for generations . Usually the stories taught a lesson and frequently , the selfish person learned . Folk tales prepare young people for life, as there are many lessons to be learned from the tales.
Mutupa the Lion and Kalulu the rabbit go hunting
Kalulu the rabbit like the jackal and the monkey is known by other animals for his cleverness.
Kalulu the rabbit is a celebrated trickster his reputation is widespread through the woodlands, water lands and grasslands, even such animals as lion the king and the leopard, respect him. In many traditional folk tales, Kalulu the rabbit will visit the lion king who will give him a job to became a care giver for his household. Typical stories are like the following the Lunda speaking people descendants of the Great King Mwanti Yamvwa of the Luba -Lunda kingdom now living in the North-Western part of Zambia in the South of Africa. Even the largest beasts as lion the king and the leopard have had respect for Kalulu the rabbit for many, many, many years.
A long, long time ago, it is said that once lion the king caught Kalulu the rabbit and was about to eat him. Why does your mouth water so when you look at me? Asked Kalulu the rabbit.
Are you you not meat? Lion the king asked in surprise.
“But I’m too small and so thin”, Kalulu the rabbit said. After you have finished eating me you will still be hungry. Why don’t we go hunting together for something better, larger and fat?”
“You go hunting with me? Lion the king laughed, ha ha ha ha, hoo , ho ho ho ho.
What could such a ridiculous animal as you catch?
“Let us go to the village where men live”, Kalulu the rabbit said. If we do not find something fatter than I, then you may eat me”.
So Lion the king and Kalulu the rabbit went together and prowled around the edged of the village where men lived and on the outskirts Lion the king captured a fat young bull. Kalulu the rabbit also hunted, but found nothing but a mangy donkey who was rolling on its back in the dust of the trail.
As the drove and took their catch home, the rabbit looked with envy at the Lion the king’s fat bull and said, Ah , lion , what bad luck you have had!”
“How?” Lion the king said in surprise.
“Your poor bull is so thin and under nourished. You’d have been better of eating me.”
“ Everyone knows that when you strike a fat animal he gives out steam.” Kalulu the rabbit said.
Lion the king did not know about that, but replied, yes, everyone knows that.
He picked up a stick and struck his bull across the back, but there was no steam coming out of the bull.
He struck again, still there was no steam, see, he is fat, lion the king said without conviction.
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