Mayukwayukwa Refugee Camp Case Study
Introduction
Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement is located in the Kaoma District of Zambia’s Western Province and houses 11,000 refugees. The camp has major issue on the management of waste since there is no department for it. Furthermore, the camp has no designed place to dispose the waste which leads the inhabitants to dump solid waste into the nearby bushes (Bodonyi 2014). The project is intended to help the management of waste by sorting out types of waste and reducing the pollution causes by it.
However there are bins installed in local markets, but the refugees there still rarely uses it. Other than that, there is only little organized recycling or reuse of waste materials in Mayukwayukwa which results in disposal of recyclable solid waste …show more content…
It is estimated that one third of the refugee camps are having inadequate waste disposal and latrine facilities. It is crucial that preventing the spread of diseases is made from proper disposal of human waste. Besides that, numbers of standing tanks are usually potential breeding grounds for harmful animals like maggots and flies. Other than that, human waste produced methane gas is very explosive and an asphyxiation hazard. On the other hand, the bad soil quality, very low usage of chemical fertiliser and often attacked by earthquakes that caused the damage of the facilities and loss of humans’ life which affected the harvest of the crop is very less amount so packed food will be the first choice to …show more content…
472 of them are Zambians. Furthermore, there are 5 schools in Mayukwayukwa, which are 2 community schools, 2 government-run primary schools and one recently opened government constructed secondary high school. When the secondary high school is fully operational, it is planned to accommodate 600 of students, refugees, former refugees and Zambians (Shimoh 2015). In Mayukwayukwa, there is a power supply infrastructure located at the nearby river rapids. With the help of UNHCR, the government had rehabilitated the power supply in order to generate electric power. With the help of the Department of Water Affairs, the water points in Meheba and Mayukwayukwa settlements can be maintained by the refugee committees (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement is located in the Kaoma District of Zambia’s Western Province and houses 11,000 refugees. The camp has major issue on the management of waste since there is no department for it. Furthermore, the camp has no designed place to dispose the waste which leads the inhabitants to dump solid waste into the nearby bushes (Bodonyi 2014). The project is intended to help the management of waste by sorting out types of waste and reducing the pollution causes by it.
However there are bins installed in local markets, but the refugees there still rarely uses it. Other than that, there is only little organized recycling or reuse of waste materials in Mayukwayukwa which results in disposal of recyclable solid waste …show more content…
It is estimated that one third of the refugee camps are having inadequate waste disposal and latrine facilities. It is crucial that preventing the spread of diseases is made from proper disposal of human waste. Besides that, numbers of standing tanks are usually potential breeding grounds for harmful animals like maggots and flies. Other than that, human waste produced methane gas is very explosive and an asphyxiation hazard. On the other hand, the bad soil quality, very low usage of chemical fertiliser and often attacked by earthquakes that caused the damage of the facilities and loss of humans’ life which affected the harvest of the crop is very less amount so packed food will be the first choice to …show more content…
472 of them are Zambians. Furthermore, there are 5 schools in Mayukwayukwa, which are 2 community schools, 2 government-run primary schools and one recently opened government constructed secondary high school. When the secondary high school is fully operational, it is planned to accommodate 600 of students, refugees, former refugees and Zambians (Shimoh 2015). In Mayukwayukwa, there is a power supply infrastructure located at the nearby river rapids. With the help of UNHCR, the government had rehabilitated the power supply in order to generate electric power. With the help of the Department of Water Affairs, the water points in Meheba and Mayukwayukwa settlements can be maintained by the refugee committees (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees