Promoting health in local communities

The goal of our health and wellness program in Zambia is to support the provision of high quality health promotions services to workers and surrounding communities in order to improve their wellbeing and productivity in Solwezi and Kalumbila Districts of North-Western Province.

Our program has the following four key objectives:

• To anticipate potential health impacts associated with Company activities and implement commensurate mitigation or enhance measures coupled with effective monitoring and evaluation to assure effectiveness
• To anticipate and manage prevailing or emerging public health risks that have the potential to impact Company activities from a worker health and wellbeing, as well as business continuity and productivity perspective
• To enable or enhance FQM socio-economic investment activities through linkage with the Corporate Social Responsibility department to maintain ‘social licence to operate’ within our host communities
• To support health systems strengthening (“HSS”) activities that enables public healthcare service delivery and the effective implementation of Ministry of Health strategies and programs

We have supported health services to deliver training, improve infrastructure, promote good behaviors and support maternity, child health and nutrition. This includes increasing awareness and prevention of malaria, sexually transmitted infections, HIV, tuberculosis, as well as promoting testing and linking community members with care and treatment.

Our child and adolescent support program focuses on schools in the catchment area and vulnerable groups, helping to support menstrual hygiene, health screening, sanitation inspections, capacity building for teachers and teaching children the basic skills they need to understand more about keeping themselves healthy.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (“WASH”)

We’ve helped communities and schools to increase awareness of water, sanitation and hygiene practices. This includes:

• Supporting access to and improving water and sanitation services;
• Bettering water quality testing and communication;
• Helping local communities to manage waste and become more prepared for specific outbreaks