The trainees working on the Multi-functional Hall at our Centre for Excellence have made fantastic progress which is great news as the start of the rainy season closes in. Our Centre for Excellence is situated on a two hectare site next to the Great North Road on the northern edge of Lusaka. When completed the […]
We caught up with Sara, our Assistant Project Manager at our Centre for Excellence, to see how she has been getting on since she arrived in Zambia… “A month has gone already! Where did that go? I remember landing in Lusaka after the 16-hour journey, my heart was beating fast in my chest. It was […]
‘Machaya’ translates to ‘fighting’ and fighting for the right to education is exactly what the local community is doing following eviction from the current school at Dudzai village, 10 miles north of Lusaka. The overcrowded school used to house over 320 vulnerable children and orphans. Thankfully, the community have managed to secure a plot of […]
We are excited to report that construction of the new classrooms at Kamaila School has started thanks to the support of our corporate partners BGL. The Government supported school was founded in 1978 and has 20 teachers and over 1,000 children. There are just eight classrooms, four of which have been condemned as unsafe. This […]
Zambia needs thousands of new classrooms. However as well as building classrooms, we also build accommodation for teachers at many of our school projects. This is essential in attracting teachers who are trained and qualified to more rural communities, helping to give local children a higher standard of education. We have met a number of […]
Sara Moslemi Zadeh from BuroHappold Engineering is following in her colleagues’ footsteps as she heads out to Zambia to volunteer as Build It Assistant Project Manager at the Centre for Excellence. We caught up with Sara before she sets out… “When I was a child, I would watch the news and see children around the world […]
The desperate need for schools in Zambia means that there is always an overwhelming number of communities needing support. We liaise with the Zambian district education authority to get a shortlist of schools which urgently need upgrading. It is a delicate process not to raise expectations and usually takes at least 12 months to identify […]
Our young trainees are making great progress on the construction of the new Multi-functional Hall at our Centre for Excellence,
Two years ago, Albert Chama was living in one room in Lusaka, Zambia with his wife, daughter and niece. Albert was a construction labourer, but was only occasionally able to find work. In 2016, Albert saw a flyer at his local church advertising a free construction training course with Build It International, and decided to […]
I have recently started my placement year at Build It and so far I am loving it! I am at the University of Bath studying Politics with International Relations, so I thought a placement year at Build It would be a great way to spend a year in industry. One of the reasons I decided to […]