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> the community project
Nyamphande is a community school and orphanage that provides education to 650 children of all ages free of charge. It is a rural community school run by volunteers from the local community to benefit the children who cannot afford to go to school. Without Nyamphande these children would not have any access to education.
The project was recommended to us by VSO Zambia, who currently have two volunteers at the school. Having worked with VSO in the past it's nice to maintain close links with the organisation and to support the work of their volunteers in country.
We decided that we would like to encourage education in rural Zambia and aim to use money we get from fundraising and one-off donations to provide the project with educational equipment and resources. We are very excited about working with Nyamphande and we look forward to reporting on the progress made there.
Thanks to a generous legacy donation we are now looking at various options to support the school with further developments.
Our work so far with Nyamphande
In the summer of 2008 we spent a lot of time deciding how best to support our community project, Nyamphande. Firstly, we chose to provide £1,500 worth of text books for the school. The school had no textbooks and so this donation means that the volunteer community teachers now have fabulous books to support their teaching. We also provided some much-needed every day school resources such as paper, pens and pencils, rubbers, rulers, chalk along with some topic specific academic wall charts.
We also chose to donate a dozen Lifeline wind up radios and lanterns to the project. We had a ring-fenced donation to be spent on renewable energy resources so we chose the wind up radios and lanterns as they have no electricity out there. The Lifeline radios have been specifically designed for rural African communities to be able to access national radio teaching programmes that are broadcast daily on any number of issues including health, nutrition and more standard academic subjects. The lanterns mean that the school can provide evening classes for adults, as the sun sets at around 6pm all year round. It also means that later in the evening the dormitories do not have to be lit by candlelight which is a fire hazard and also difficult to complete homework by.
Finally we paid for the thatching of the roof of the new Early Years Centre. Nyamphande had decided to set this up in their original school building which was a long old clay hut whose roof had fallen in. The new roof that we funded brought the building back to life and the nursery-aged community children finally had a school to attend. We also provided all of their early years textbooks to ensure that they would get off to a good start.