Misisi
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Misisi Compound is a shanty town or komboni located in Lusaka, Zambia. In 2008, it was estimated to have 10,000 inhabitants1. Plans for redevelopment were announced by President Edgar Lungu in 2019.
Misisi Compound is a shanty town or komboni located in Lusaka, Zambia. In 2008, it was estimated to have 10,000 inhabitants. Plans for redevelopment were announced by President Edgar Lungu in 2019.
Project Zambia
Misisi is one of the main places in which Project Zambia works. Much of the work takes place in the adjoining St Lawrence's Centre, which houses the Home of Hope, an outreach programme removing street children from Lusaka and offering them a safe haven and attempting to reunite them with their families, a Community School, bakery, Agricultural Project for a few examples, but a significant amount also takes place in the compound itself, such as the provision of clean water. Project Zambia also works in the St Catherine's Centre, in the middle of Misisi; it is a school offering education to local children of Misisi. Project Zambia's continued work in the St Catherine's Centre, with the work of Mr Peter Tembo, the co-ordinator of the St Catherine's centre, has seen its expansion from a few buildings acting as a temporary school, to a walled compound that has continued expansion with each year that Project Zambia continues its involvement.
Redevelopment
In 2019, President Edgar Lungu announced plans to redevelop the Misisi and Chibolya settlements. They were one of four initiatives submitted to the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development. Whilst residents were concerned about eviction, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela announced that under the Urban Renewal plans, the government would build 12,500 housing units in Misisi and also Kuku, which would house 50,000 people.
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External links
The Zambia Society Trust Groundwater quality assessments in the John Laing and Misisi areas of Lusaka
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