Chinyingi

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Chinyingi footbridge

Chinyingi even Chinyingi Mission is a place on the west bank of the upper reaches of the Zambezi River in the Northwest Frontier Province in Zambia . It is 1,100 meters above sea level.

Chinyingi is a Capuchin mission, around 500 people live within a radius of seven kilometers. The Mission provides a hospital with 52 beds and medical care and a school. Their catchment area extends as far as Zambezi, 60 kilometers away .

In the 1970s, the Capuchin Crispin Baleri constructed a simple suspension bridge for pedestrians after watching four people drown trying to take a sick person to hospital. He collected donations in the Copperbelt and built the bridge with unskilled workers on site. Even though Baleri wasn't an engineer, the bridge still holds. It is one of five bridges that span 2,574 kilometers across the Zambezi.

Coordinates: 13 ° 31 ′  S , 23 ° 6 ′  E