case studies

education

BZT’s community school provides the first important step in engaging local people with practical information about sustainable livelihoods, and helping them become aware of the issues surrounding HIV and Aids...
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micro-credit

BZT has helped more than 200 small loan schemes in Kalwa and other areas that it has previously supported. This is an innovative approach where a one-off investment managed by a local group...
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HIV and AIDS

HIV and Aids is a desperate problem affecting as many as one in five adults in Zambia. Unfortunately, it is also contributing to the most profound reversal of rural development for 40 years...
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sustainable agriculture

Most rural communities in Zambia have little or no access to transport. This is particularly hard for peasant farmers who need to buy seeds and other necessities at planting time. Without transport, they have little option but to reuse old seeds...
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school burseries

Every Zambian family is affected by HIV and Aids – and never more so than when orphaned and bereft children uproot their lives and homes to go and live with relatives. For rural families this is particularly hard. A very sick relative will return home, perhaps from town, to be cared for – and when they die, they often leave children behind...
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the luano valley

According to Zambia’s Sunday Post newspaper, the Luano Valley is one of the country’s most inhospitable areas – ‘the terrain is unforgivable… bad roads, streams and rivers devoid of bridges. Luano is simply wild and rocky’...
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