Mike Tembo, now aged 25, was one of 23 young unemployed people recruited to train with us on our community build project at Bissell Community School in 2017. Mike successfully completed his training gaining a certificate in Brick and Blocklaying during the build of new classrooms for his local community. Mike’s new skills have opened […]
Chitukuko is a rural community around 20km west of Lusaka. The community was formed in 2015 when nearly 500 families were forced to move from farmland they had been squatting on for many years by new land owners. In 2016 your support helped to build a three-classroom block, a latrine block and a teacher’s house. […]
We are delighted to announce that our CEO Andrew Jowett has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year honours 2020 for services to education in Zambia. Graduating from Pembroke College, University of Oxford with MA Geography, Andrew’s career in international development began at Save the Children UK working first in the Horn of […]
The roof is on at Naluyanda Community School which means that the children are a big step closer to getting into their new classrooms. Generous support from our corporate partner BGL Group is bringing better facilities to over 300 young pupils of this community school in a peri-urban area north of the capital Lusaka. We […]
It was fantastic to celebrate the graduation of our first group of 2019 trainees at our Centre for Excellence on 2 December. Trainees across Bricklaying, Painting, Plastering and Rough Carpentry celebrated the successful completion of their training and work placements. The vast majority of our trainees are between 18 and 35 years old. We look […]
We are delighted to announce that we are taking part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019 – the UK’s largest match-funding campaign which last year raised an incredible £13 million for participating charities. This means that donations made to Build It online through The Big Give Christmas Challenge website between midday Tuesday 3 December until midday […]
It’s fantastic to see the progress being made by our community trainees on the new classroom block at Mukuyu Community School. The current school was built by the local community who were determined to help their children get an education. Several years later the building is crumbling, cramped and unsafe for the 231 pupil now […]
Build It has been awarded centre approved status by NOCN for the quality and excellence of its construction skills training programme in Zambia. A progressive vocational skills charity and social enterprise, the National Open College Network Group (NOCN) has been at the forefront of skills development and professional accreditation for over thirty years. Now active […]
Jamie Howard, a member of Build It’s Young Professional Board, recently travelled to Zambia to visit Build It projects and trainees at the Centre for Excellence. Jamie shares his experience… Early in September, I joined a group of cyclists in Zambia to send them off on their journey from Lusaka to Livingstone to raise money […]
Build It is delighted to have been awarded an organisational grant from The Happold Foundation to continue building brighter futures in Zambia. Build It, and Renewable World, will each receive £30,000 funding per year for three years. The two organisations were selected from 33 applications received from around the world. The Happold Foundation is a […]