SSAAP

Spring 2026 Update & News Letter:
This Season reflects powerful, rooted progress:
• Several new water wells planned to continue to support access to clean water for drinking and irrigation

• Positive developments for our Nonviolence Center in Zambia incuded signing the land deed & meetings with potential contractors

• Growth towards more sustainable construction practices with goal to obtain interlocking brick machine that helps protect forests

By replacing traditional brick‑burning methods, which destroy thousands of trees, with Interlocking brick machines we’re building in a way that honors people, land, and future generations. Swipe through to see the work unfolding. Full Spring Newsletter link in bio.

Through SSAAP’s Microloan Program, many of the microloan recipients have engaged in successful produce gardens. This helps to increase nutrition, offering a stronger variety of balanced vitamins and minerals into the diets of the local people.

Apologies that it has been awhile since we posted! But we're back and ready to share some photos and updates from the past few months!
These are photos from the brand new Chibwe Village water well. Thanks to the successful efforts of SSAAP and local partners, we drilled a new well in September. We hit water at 50 meters!

One of the most profoundly impactful parts of farming and agricultural, which is beneficial at-large to each and every rural community, is water.

In Southern Province, as the water table is too low to
hand-dig a water well, we drill boreholes using huge drill rigs.

Through the introduction of a sustainable, reliable, and clean water source comes the potential of gardening. So much is lost in the
investment of water without produce gardens and using the water to irrigate. Irrigation/food is part of Phase II in SSAAP’s Rural Transformational Model. Phase I is Clean Drinking Water.

SSAAP has no intention of doing anything with the land other than
cherishing it. SSAAP believes that Nature is a sanctuary; we work with Nature thus naturally, our work is with preservation and conservationism.

Planting trees, harvesting trees, replanting trees when matured trees are cut for building or firewood, working with seedlings, and rejuvenation of seeds are all pillars resting upon the sturdy principles and foundation of the Food Forest Foundation.

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This is what we are up against and this is precisely what we are fighting against. This is the stagnant ground water that is found in our community, here in Cooma Chiefdom, Zambia; the water is perfect for animals to drink (cows, goats, sheep, etc.) but unfit for human consumption. Can you imagine bathing your baby in this water – or yourself? Can you imagine cooking with it, or drinking it, or using it to launder your clothing? Neither can I. And that’s why I founded SSAAP-Zambia in 2009, and SSAAP-Sierra Leone in 2012.

We had a few gifts during the holiday season (2024) for Gift Packages; please check our SSAAP website if you are interested in a Gift Package for a friend. Most of the SSAAP Gift Packages include a school sponsorship, animal, packet of seeds, and various combinations of these items. Because of this, we were able to purchase a mother cow and her baby! A sheep, some goats, and some guinea fowl were also purchased for the project. Thank you!

SSAAP is also partnering with a project called Green Village Foundation, a local project in Kalomo town, Zambia. The top priority of their foundation is water harvesting (water well
boreholes and weir dams in rural communities), as well reforestation in remote areas. SSAAP welcomes a partnership with Green Village Foundation with open arms! Thank you!

Women’s involvement in economic activity has increased substantially after the introduction of a water
well into the prospective community; time previously spent fetching water can now be used elsewhere,
and largely more productively. Female children, responsible in the family structure to fetch water,
previously did not have time to attend school as the distance to the nearest water source was too far, or
waiting in long lines to access water from a mud hole would delay them to attend school in a timely
manner. Women and girls benefit largely, if not the most recognizably, through the introduction of a
water well into the community.

SSAAP is back in Zambia again!