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Safe Hands Appeal: Our response to COVID-19 pandemic
Washing our hands regularly with soap and water is a key health message in the battle against COVID-19. But lack of adequate and appropriate facilities means that for many in Zambia, this just isn’t possible.
We wanted to respond directly to the challenges caused by the pandemic. In June 2020 we launched our Safe Hands Appeal to build permanent hand washing facilities at 18 schools in Zambia. These new facilities have space for 18 children to wash their hands all at the same time, and will help benefit up to 20,000 children.
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We have provided training to a small group of our young construction graduates to build these hand wash stations. New skills means new opportunities for them to earn a living and to provide for their families.
In addition, we are also providing schools with vital supplies including face masks, soaps and disinfectant. We are arranging COVID-19 awareness sessions to ensure schools have accurate information to keep their children, teachers and communities safe.
We are supporting crowded, urban schools that are at higher risk from the spread COVID-19. We are also supporting rural schools that although may have a lower risk of transmission, are often poorly resourced with even less access to essential services.
We continue raising funds for our Safe Hands appeal. Will you join us in #BuildingBrighterFutures in Zambia?
Dispelling the myths – Safe Hands workshops
4 May 2021. Ensuring schools have accurate information on COVID-19 is essential to help keep children, teachers and communities safe. As the pandemic has spread, so too has misleading information around COVID-19. False claims continue to circulate resulting in many people struggling to know who or what to believe. We wanted to ensure that schools […]
35 hand wash stations now completed!
17 March 2021. Your incredible support to our Safe Hands initiative, means our graduate team has now built 35 hand wash stations in schools in Zambia. And there are more on the way! Hand washing saves lives. Regular hand washing is one of the best ways to remove germs, avoid getting sick and prevent the […]
Further schools benefiting from your support
28 February 2021. Your generous support to our Safe Hands appeal means we have been distributing more essential supplies to schools in Zambia. In February, a further eight schools benefited from face masks, soap, hand sanitizers, granular chlorine and no-contact digital thermometers to help stop the spread of Covid-19. At Bissell Community School, 453 face […]
Helping schools to reopen safely
22 January 2021. The reopening of schools across Zambia after the Christmas holiday has been delayed by two weeks until 1 February. This is due to the rapid increase in cases of COVID-19. The Zambian Government says that this two-week period aims to allow schools to put in place measures to help protect learners and […]
Challenge completed!
18 December 2020. Thank you to everyone who took part in our recent Star Jump challenge raising £850 for our Safe Hands appeal. Set by our Young Professionals Board (YPB), the challenge ran on social media throughout November. Beth Vuckovic is a member of the Board and explained what they hoped to achieve: ‘The Coronavirus […]
Double the numbers at Naluyanda
1 December 2020. Work continues through our Safe Hands programme on the construction of permanent hand wash stations in local schools. These new facilities enable more children to wash their hands at the same time. This will help the school to manage and integrate hand washing more frequently into their daily timetable. At Naluyanda Community […]
Ten hand wash stations nearing completion
4 November 2020. Construction of hand wash stations at Bissell and Naluyanda Community Schools are nearing completion thanks to your support. This will take the total to ten new wash stations so far. Through our Safe Hands appeal, we are building permanent, hand wash stations at 18 schools with space for 18 children to wash […]
Star jump challenge!
29 October 2020. Our Young Professionals Board is throwing down the gauntlet in November encouraging people to take up their fundraising challenge: The challenge: 500 star jumps in 5 days How to take part: Donate £5 to Build It and post a photo of yourself having completed the challenge on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter – tag Build It and tag five […]
Hand washing stations completed at Moomba Schools
2 October 2020. As well as supporting schools we have worked with in the past, our Safe Hands Appeal is an opportunity to expand support to other schools in the local area. Situated just over 4km from our Centre for Excellence, Moomba Primary and Moomba Boarding Secondary Schools are large, Government run schools with a […]
New hand washing stations for the children at Kamaila
25 September 2020. Schools are reopening in Zambia and thanks to your support, children can safely return to their classrooms. Through our Safe Hands appeal, the first group hand washing stations have been built at Kamaila Primary and Secondary schools. The stations allow 18 children to wash their hands with clean water all at the […]