by Regan Murray
Help us raise $25,000 to build boys and girls’ bathrooms so that the new school for orphans can open next year!

Last year, with your help, we raised more than $30,000 to construct a new school for orphans and vulnerable children.  This new school will be a state-of-the-art primary school in the heart of one of the most impoverished areas of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia.  Once built and fully operational, the school will offer a rigorous education to 210 children in grades 1-7, two meals per day, and caring adult supervision.

The most exciting part of the school is that it will be entirely free for these children, so that they no longer have to worry about whether or not they will be able to go to school, how to pay for school fees and uniforms, and how to find food to eat every day.

The school will be located in the midst of a beautiful small urban farm.  Named after a fig-tree with large leaves that provide comforting shade, the Kachele Primary School will offer comfort, shade, and enrichment to a continual stream of hopeful children.

The first three classrooms are being built this autumn.  When the school opens, the three rooms will house grade one, the cafeteria, and the administration.   However, the school cannot open until blocks of boys’ and girls’ toilets and showers are built.  In order to open the school next year, $25,000 must be raised in the next two months.

We would love to partner with you to ensure a hopeful and healthy future for these children!  For more information about how to contribute to our annual campaign, see http://www.kondwa.org/help/donate.htm or contact us at donations@kondwa.org.

Please send your gift today so that the new school can open its doors to first graders in 2009!