Building Walls Build Hope – New Photos from Kachele Primary School
Building Walls Builds Hope –
New Photos from Kachele Primary School
Angela walks by a future classroom
“I have a dream – because everybody is allowed to dream – of a school for orphans and vulnerable children in my neighborhood of N’gombe Compound. The school will care for children whose parents have died from AIDS and whose caretakers struggle to pay for food, clothing, and school fees.”
These words came from the determined mouth of Mrs. Angela Malik, a Zambian woman working tirelessly to care for children in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Along with three other visitors from the U.S., I sat listening to Angela’s dream that night in March 2006, wondering if and how I could help.
A banana tree, one of many crops planted on the Kachele land
Three years later, Angela’s dream is almost a reality!
I visited Lusaka again this March and saw the foundations for the new school being dug and the pipes laid for the water system.
By July, the cement block walls were up, waiting to be covered by metal roofs. Lots of finishing work still needs to be done, but if all goes according to plan, the school will open in January to first and second graders. The school will be called Kachele -the name of a local fig tree with large leaves that provide comforting shade.
Walls going up in July
How did this dream become a reality? Thanks to your generosity, and that of more than 350 contributors across the U.S. and CANADA, the Temwani Children’s Foundation raised $33,000 to help build the first three classrooms and $15,000 for boys’ and girls’ bathrooms. Annual World Food Day events in Cincinnati, Des Moines, Flagstaff, San Diego, San Jose, and Tucson have raised funds to provide breakfast and lunch daily to the students at the Kachele School.
As an old African proverb says,
“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”
Your partnership with the Temwani Children’s Foundation joins you with hundreds of supporters in the U. S. and Canada and our partners in Zambia to create a strong focused campaign for making real and lasting change in the lives of orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia. Together we can accomplish great things.
Panorama of classroom area
I am proud of all that we have achieved together and humbled by how much more work there is to do. Please continue your support of our partnership with the Kachele Primary School. Your help can ensure a healthy, educated, and happy new generation of children in Africa!
The United Nations estimates that more than 850 million people worldwide are undernourished. World Food Day recognizes that every person should have the right to sufficient, nutritionally adequate, and culturally acceptable food for an active healthy life. To ensure this same right to the children of N’gombe Compound that will attend the new Kachele Primary School, the Kondwa Children’s Foundation sponsored World Food Day events in Cincinnati, Des Moines, San Diego, San Jose, and Tucson to raise money for the Kachele School lunch and breakfast program.
Emanu East African Restaurant in Cincinnati Ohio hosted the Cincinnati World Food Day fundraiser on October 16, 2008. Emanu Mogos, the owner and chef, prepared a delicious Ethiopian buffet, and her son Sammy Yhdego demonstrated how to use the injera bread to eat the tasty vegetable and meat dishes. Board members Regan Murray and Adam Hardin presented a slide show about the children who will attend the Kachele Primary School and the challenges they face in obtaining access to food, education, medical care, and adult supervision. More than 30 people attended and contributed, resulting in donations of $1291 toward the the Kachele Primary School lunch and breakfast program. 
Over 80 people were present at the event in Tuscon! Participants ate Zambian shima and sauce, bid on African items in a silent auction, participated in dollar Quick Draw raffles, and learned about children in need in Lusaka. Tucsonans raised more than $1000 to buy food for children who will attend the Kachele Primary school when it opens.
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.
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.
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