projects

building for villages

Most Pembans live in villages, containing anywhere from a dozen houses to hundreds. The Pemba Foundation builds village infrastructure: schools, sanitation, water supplies.Scroll down for details.

sanitation:

Public toilets built by the Pemba Foundation in the village of Maziwa Ngombe.

Many Pemba village houses have inadequate sanitation, or none at all. Running water – often a limited amount – may only be available from communal wells or from standpipes if piped water has reached the area. In the rainy season, cholera regularly hits some villages, affecting children particularly, some of whom die as a result.
A Pemba village street during the rainy season. Floodwater may carry human waste.

The village of Maziwa Ngombe has a population of about 6,000 in about 1,500 houses, at least 1,000 of which have no running water or sanitation. Streets often flood during the rainy season, and cholera outbreaks are common. 2015 was especially bad, and for a time the village school had to be used as a hospital.
In cooperation with village leaders the Pemba Foundation designed 2 public toilet buildings, hired local workers and managed construction. The Foundation also upgraded the water supply and installed a storage tank for a public toilet building built some years ago in Mjini Kiuyu village.
  • Street in Mjini Kiuyu prone to rainy season flooding, which can lead to cholera outbreaks.
  • Queuing up for water in Mjini Kiuyu.
  • Because of low pressure we added a pump and tank to the toilet building at Mjini Kiuyu.
  • Mjini Kiuyu public toilets (behind the banana tree) upgraded with water tank..
  • Low water pressure means the Maziwa Ngombe public toilets need pumps and storage tanks.
  • Nassor from Pemba Foundation with Maziwa Ngombe Sheha (leader) Asha Yussuf, at the site of one of the planned new toilet buildings.
  • Excavating one of the septic tanks.
  • Foundations for first public toilet building.
  • Second toilet building.
  • Ready for water tank and electric connections.
  • Completed building has men's and women's sides, with toilets, showers and hand basins.
  • Mr. Shamata, district MP, accepts the 2 new buildings from Pemba Foundation on behalf of the village.

school building:

A recent law required all children to attend nursery school, but no government funding has been available for school construction. In 2017 the Member of Parliament for the Maziwa Ngombe area asked the Pemba Foundation if we would build a nursery school to serve the village and surrounding district. We designed and built a 5-classroom school, with offices and storage. At the same time we upgraded the nearby primary school: we brought in power, installed lighting and ceiling fans, and built water storage and a septic tank.
  • School construction starting.
  • Main classroom wing.
  • Water tank will have taps so the new water supply can be used by students at break time.
  • New lighting and fans in offices and classrooms.
  • Students gather for opening ceremony.
  • Official opening by Zanzibar VP.
  • The VP unveiled this plaque.
  • Students from nursery and primary schools with the headmaster.

water supplies:

This project, to be completed in spring 2021, is bringing piped water to one of the small, remote islands off the Pemba coast.
Successful pump test of new borehole.
Uvinje Island off Pemba's west coast has one village with about 700 people. There is no piped water, and no ground water. A government pipeline once brought water to Uvinje, but it dried up years ago because of increased demand upstream. The islanders now have to haul in cans of water every day by boat. The Pemba Foundation is bringing water back into Uvinje's pipeline with a multi-faceted project: drilling a new, dedicated borehole on Pemba's mainland; upgrading and renovating the pipeline which runs to Uvinje underground and on the sea floor; and building 2 new tank storage areas near Uvinje village.
  • Approaching isolated Uvinje island.
  • Uvinje's water supply is carried by sailing dhows from a port on the Pemba mainland.
  • Cans are unloaded on the beach at Uvinje then carried up to the village.
  • Uvinje islanders are very poor and the difficult conditions often lead to poor health.
  • Clean piped water is the biggest need.
  • Pemba Foundation planning meeting with Uvinje residents.
  • Pipeline coming ashore at Uvinje. Several miles of pipe are now being cleaned out for the new supply.
  • Drilling new borehole on the mainland to supply Uvinje.
  • Connecting the new borehole to the pipeline that runs to Uvinje..
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