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Bringing clean, safe WATER FOR LIFE to the remote communities of Zambia's Luangwa Valley. Makolekole is the Nyanja word for carmine bea-eaters.

Christina (Gid) and Adrian Carr run Makolekole - a small borehole drilling company – bringing clean, safe water to the remote communities of the Luangwa Valley Zambia. In the remote villages of Zambia’s Luangwa Valley thousands of families still do not have access to safe, clean water. Women and children in rural villages often travel miles to find water in rivers or shallow wells. Collecting wate

r from rivers is potentially dangerous not only because the water is not clean but the risk of injury and death from crocodiles, elephants and other wild animals is very real; every year lives are lost. Luckily, the solution here in the Luangwa Valley is extremely simple – communal boreholes equipped with sturdy,’ low tech’ hand pumps. Our lightweight drilling rig is designed to access the most remote villages in the alluvial riverine areas which are hard to reach and for which conventional heavy rigs are unsuitable. These beautiful birds make deep holes in the sand of the river banks for their nests.

21/12/2023

Wishing everyone a Happy Christmas and a great 2024. Thank you to our wonderful donors this year, Makolekole.usa.water AJA Foundation Just a Drop Spirit of Zambia Schulprojekte Sambia Fundacion Livingstone/Livingstone Foundation for AfricaThe Dunne Family, the Mills Family, Cath and Andrew - to Mambwe Council, our MP PPS, WARMA, the Chiefs, headpersons, borehole committee members and community residents. We broke our record and drilled 45 boreholes this year! But most of all thank you to the Makolekole Teams - the drilling team who have achieved so much and also the back up team in the workshop without whom we could not keep going!
Here's to 2024. To Peace and to Love.
Photo - Fidelis Skabala

13/10/2023

Start your weekend with a smile. The ladies and youngsters at M'Longoti Village enjoy helping with pump testing their new borehole. Photo credit - Fidelis Skabala.

07/10/2023

As October rushes by in a haze of heat - we reach the grand total of 300 boreholes since 2015 in the communities of the Luangwa Valley. That's around 60,000 people now with access to clean, safe water. Thank you to our wonderful, brilliant donors, to the fabulous MUSA (our US sister organisation) thank you to the communities who have been so co-operative and welcoming, to the headpersons who worked so hard on behalf of their villages to bring water. But most of all - THANK YOU to the best teams in the world - The Makolekole Drilling Team and the Kakoma Workshop team (mechanics, engineering, welding, logistics and back up)
Our aim is to reach 500 communities so we still have work to do!

14/06/2023

We have already drilled 14 community boreholes this year! And this week we are thrilled to welcome some of our wonderful donors from the US who will be visiting the villages which have benefitted from their thoughtful generosity.

22/03/2023

It's World Water Day. Appreciate it, save it, love it, give it.

08/03/2023

Happy Womens' Day. 😀

20/12/2022

Before and after! We have installed more than 40 village boreholes in the villages of the Luangwa Valley in 2022. With grateful thanks to our wonderful sponsors.
Happy Christmas to everyone from us all at Makolekole.

16/07/2022

At Tabe Village in Mnkhanya, residents were fetching water from an extremely poor source. Thanks to the wonderful Rudnitsky family from Las Vegas in the USA - Makolekole has been able to provide Tabe with a beautiful new borehole. THANK YOU to Abi, Ben and Jessica and thanks to Fidelis Skabala of Makolekole for the great photos. This is just one of more than 250 community boreholes Makolekole has drilled in the Luangwa Valley.

23/05/2022

The beautiful new borehole and handpump at Gesani - Thank you Schulprojekte Sambia plus a reminder of the dire water situation before.

12/05/2022

Clean, fresh water for the first time at Gesani. Young residents helping with the pump testing.

10/05/2022

Young girls doing the washing up chores at a village we visited yesterday. Their water situation (a shallow lagoon shared with animals) is truly dire. I look forward to posting photos of their new borehole very soon. Permission was granted to show the photos.

06/05/2022

The redoubtable ladies of Mphomwa Village where we are drilling at the moment. Thank you to Schulprojekte Sambia and the Symphasis Foundation.

17/02/2022

It's rainy season, we can't drill in the rains and spend the time on maintenance of the rig, vehicles and kit. The drilling team has some well earned time off. During this down time we found out more about local football club - https://web.facebook.com/Valley-Queens-104189941520403 and have, in a small way, become a sponsor. Proud to support them. Great photos by Joseph Nkoma and Aaron Mwale.

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http://www.makolekoledrilling.com/

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