• The North West Zambia Development Trust (NWZDT) is a charity set up by a group of people connected with the area, both locally and in the UK.
• The Trust works directly with the local population and has a connection to the historic Kalene mission hospital which celebrated 100 years of service in 2006.
• NWZDT believes that while many individual crises can be eased by food and medicine, real progress comes from investment in infrastructure that most in the West take for granted - clean water, electricity, sanitation, and employment.
• A source of sustainable electric power was judged the priority as a trigger to the others, and the Zambezi Rapids Hydro-Electric Scheme has just been completed.

• This is a 700KW run-of-river hydro-electric scheme which has taken three years to build and has recently been completed - July 2007.
• Almost no machinery was utilised to increase local employment - 99% of workforce has been local, unskilled labour.
• The project's success is down to the determination of the core team and a remarkable mobilization of freely-given expertise and goodwill from around the globe.
• The power company that will operate the scheme is named after the local chief, His Royal Highness Chief Zengamina Nyakaseya.

Last updated August 2007

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