Location: Zambia, Lusaka
Project: Pa Kachele School
Quote:
Angela Malik, founder & Director Kondwa Day Care “Some children nursed their parents until they died. It’s traumatizing. You get traumatized when you lose a parent through normal circumstances. But now you have to see them wasting away. So that’s what inspired me to help these children.
Short description:
Pa Kachele (under the tree) Primary School was started by Angela Malik on 25 March 2011 based on the need for the children from the Kondwa Day Care to move on to a primary school. The school provides education to 266 children (including 11 special needs children) in the ages from 7 to 17 years. Besides the children that move on from Kondwa Day Care, the school also has room for the children of the compound. One condition is that the children are half- or complete orphans as a result of the HIV epidemic, because their parents died from the virus or cannot take care of them anymore. Pa Kachele places the children in a class based on their level of education, not their age. In addition to the regular education, Pa Kachele has one class with ten deaf children in the ages from 4 to 15 years old. This is called the ‘special class’. All children wear a uniform four days a week and informal clothing one day a week on sports day.
Goals:
- Offering an elementary education with a good connection between primary school and high school to 266 children
- Providing 2 nutritious meals a day (breakfast and lunch)
- Psychosocial support
- Offering hope for a better future to vulnerable and orphaned children from the Ng’ombe region
Results:
- Offering primary school to 239 orphans and other vulnerable children.
- A nutritious meal for these children (breakfast and lunch).
- The children are healthy and are growing according to standard. They learn how to play like any other child.
- They receive psychosocial support.
- All classrooms from grade 1 till 7 have been built. The kitchen was enlarged.
- Pa Kachele School received authorisation to conduct exams for Grade 7 in 2015.
- A senior (retired) teacher was hired.
- A special needs teacher completed a training.
- The houses for volunteers are finished and the first volunteers stayed there.
- Pa Kachele started a carpentry project for children who dropped out of school, to teach them the skills to make their own living.
