Lusaka Projects

This week we returned to Lusaka to keep our

 humanitarian projects moving.  

We visited most of the projects and even two

new ones we hope to submit.  It was a very busy week

 but good to see how things are progressing.  

The Twikatane health post going up.
 This will serve 13 villages (16000 people) and deal with
 general health and emergency situations.

All contractors were required to stop work in Zambia for 3 weeks
 during the Christmas holidays so nothing happened during that time
 on some of our projects.  But now they are up and running again.

The community is building a staff house.  Hope it moves along a bit faster.  

Tiyende Padomzi school.  They are plastering the inside walls.  

After a year of seeking funding from their local government council,
 the Sosco school has nearly completed their building that
 will house a maize dehuller and grinder that the church is purchasing.
 The funds generated will support teachers salaries because these
 small community schools have to pay their own teachers.
 A good self-reliant project that will provide a better education for the students.

Visited a new school that is in need of teachers accommodations.
 They started a 2-teacher house but ran out of funds.
 The government will provide paid teachers if they have a place to live.

Started teachers house

Many dips in the road were filled pretty deep with water.
  It is rainy season here.  There were a few dips that we wondered
 if we were going to get through.  

We visited one of our new projects in Chipembi.
 The community had constructed a new 1x3 classroom block
 up to the roof level to support secondary students.  The church will
 complete the building.  We like these projects where the community
 has already shown great initiative to complete work they can do. 

While picking up the Chisamba building officer to take us to Chipembi,
 other district leaders asked us to walk next door to visit the
 Chisamba Primary and Secondary school.  We found that many students
 were sitting on the floor or standing against the wall because they had so few desks.
  They had just completed a new 1x3 classroom block but had no new desks.  

The same school showing 4 kids to a desk and some on the floor (7th graders).
 It is amazing they can learn anything in such a difficult environment.
  We decided to submit a project for 60 desks at the old school
 and 60 desks for the new classroom block.