D-lab Zambia
Team Leader
Chikoti Mibenge,
cmibenge@wellesley.edu
Regional Partners
DISACARE
Through operations based in Zambia, DISACARE helps people with limited
mobility by making affordable, strong, fast, and long lasting wheelchairs.
They are currently striving to work with other African wheelchairs
builders so as to counteract the mass distribution of imported wheelchair
from Europe which are difficult to repair and are not suitable for
African terrain.
UNZA,
The University of Zambia
Possible Projects
for D-lab 2004-2005
- Solar installation
for chief, community center (Other ideas)
- Human-powered
grain mill (treadle mill)
- Micro-dams,
Irrigation (treadle pumps)
- Road Repair
(how, make tools)
- Drinking
water monitoring and treatment
- Nutrition
study
- Income generation
(cash crops)
Site Specific
Information
Kurt Kornbluth
has prepared a rough report based on his most recent trip to Mwape,
Zambia. Because Mwape is most likely the village at which the D-lab
Zambia team will be based during January 2005, the trip report contains
a wealth of relevant and location specific information about the
culture, available materials, and possible projects of Mwape. You
can view the report by clicking the following link (another browser
window should appear):
Kurt
Kornbluth's September 2004 Mwape, Zambia Trip Report
Related Links
CIA
World Factbook, Zambia:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/za.html
A more detailed
description of DISACARE:
http://whirlwind.sfsu.edu/2020/_wproduc.html
The
CDC website with recommendations for travellers to Zambia:
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/cafrica.htm
The
US Dept. of State travel site with advice and information for travellers
to Zambia:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/zambia.html
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