By Staff Reporter
Learners at Mapereka Primary School, Traditional Authority( T.A) Mabuka in Mulanje district can now breath a sigh of relief after athlete Shantel Davie repaired a broken borehole at the school.
According to the school authorities, the borehole has stayed over 10 years not function.
Speaking on Tuesday after the borehole get repaired, the School’s Head Teacher Joyce Mulima Kazembe, thanked Davie for the initiative.
Kazembe said the repaired borehole will now help learners and the community able to access clean water.
She added that at first before the borehole repaired, learners were walking long distances to search for water for mopping in the classrooms and toilets at the school.
“I am very happy because all the problems we had concerning water are now over . God should always bless Davie for what he has done here,” said Kazembe.
In her words, Jacquiline Thawani, a standard six learner at the school also expressed her excitement over the restoration of the borehole.
She said in past three years, classes were disturbed because the time when other learners were in class others were somewhere far from the school searching for drinking water.
Group Village head Kadewere ( Emmie Namakhwa) from Senior Chief Chikumbu in the district where Davie has also repaired some boreholes thanked the athlete for his charity works.
She said that as a Group Village Head, she will form up a committee that will look after the borehole.
“I ask God to bless Shantel for restoring the boreholes in my community because in past years we were fetching water at the river where we met snakes. With this repaired borehole, we are now we are happy that we will fetch water near home,” she thanked.
After repairing the borehole, Athlete Shantel Davie said he follows what the Bible and Qur’an teaches us that we should help those who are in need hence embarking on borehole repairing initiativeres so as to help those in need of help
He said “I am asking for well-wishers to help us so that we can reach many people in the country”.
Davie has been helping people through repairing boreholes since October, 2021 and as of now he has repaired over 40 boreholes in Mulanje district.
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