Thank you for your overwhelming support for our ‘Help Lupuka Learn’ appeal. This has so far raised £43,000 – enough to start construction of the classrooms and school office next month – Fantastic news! Project manager, Albert Lungu, took this good news to Lupuka last week and it was received with great excitement. He also… Continue reading Overwhelming support means Lupuka construction can start!
We are extremely proud that two of our former trainees, Emelda and Charity, have formed one of the few all female contractor groups in Zambia will build the teacher’s house at our project in Kabaka. We are working hard to address the issue of gender equality for our trainees and our ‘Training into Work’ programme… Continue reading All female contractor group to build teacher’s house at Kabaka
Earlier this week Albert Lungu, Build It’s Project Manager, met with the Kabaka community to discuss the design of a new school for the community. Kabaka is part of our 2013 building programme. We will build a new 3 classroom block, a teacher’s house and V.I.P (Ventilation Improved Pit) Latrines for the rural community 26Km… Continue reading A new school for the Kabaka community
The first block for the new Kabaka school has been produced. It will take over 17,500 blocks to build the new 3 classrooms, teacher’s house and latrines. The blocks will be produced by 10-15 new trainees who will soon be selected from the local community by Training into Work manager, Justus Katungulu, who is also… Continue reading One block down… 17,499 to go!
The enthusiastic Kabaka community in central Zambia have been working hard to clear the site of their first ever dedicated school building. The community volunteers have been enthusiastically clearing vegetation, tree stumps and termite mounds, shifting earth and leveling the site of the school and teacher’s house. Now that the site has been cleared, stabilised… Continue reading Kabaka community clear the way for new school
