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Fupashi Suspended-Suspension Bridge
Project # 061
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Bridge Sponsors: Rotary Club of Innsbrook and KSHGS-Matthew McDonald
Partners: CARE Ndola
Bridge Designers and Construction Coordination: Zoe Pacciani
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Bridge Name: Fupashi Suspended-Suspension Bridge
Bridge Span: 30 meters
Pedestrian Footbridge Type: Suspended-Suspension Footbridge
Community Name: Maseiti
Population served by bridge: This site has moderate traffic, up to 500 per day, but will save many hours of walking to access the health clinic and market. In addition, at least 100 school children use this route every day to access the community school. The immediate community of Kafkania is approximately 100 households and an additional 7 or 8 communities use the path for reaching the clinic in Masaiti. The bridge will server 3600 people of the Masaiti Village.
Expected Traffic: 500
Bridge Completion Date:
Bridge story: The women of Fupashi are very outspoken. The first thing they argued about in our community meeting was how many days or weeks they cannot cross the river when it floods, and what happens then? Well, first the pregnant women cannot reach the midwife for labour. Then the women cannot reach market for vegetables for their stew. The children cannot go to school – well, we know what that can do for both mothers and children! Now that they have a school and a well, the women of Fupashi need a bridge.
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Project #061 Fupashi Suspended-Suspension Footbridge
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