May 2006
When a Parent Dies.
When a parent dies, the chief sufferers are the children. Many young people so badly placed, are cared for by King World School in Mutedere, Zambia. King world school feeds clothes and educates them and sends them forth into the world with every chance of being useful citizens.
For over a year now King World School, with the help of our family friends from USA, England and the Netherlands, has carried on and more than 40 children have received its benefits. Will you please help those children under its care?
The cost of maintenance is now much higher. (See our monthly budget on the site) There are no endowments and every penny must be subscribed. Your gift will be most welcome.
Recently we received a box from Ralph & Carol Sechriest, Lori and Matthew Wraith, a Box full of Teddy bears! What joy! Our toy room is fun. Though the Teddy bears did not go round to every child we have however taught them to share. We are very grateful to mom & dad Carol and Ralph, mom & dad Lori and Matthew in Ohio and California respectively for this parcel. We want you to know, that every toy packed could help another child in Africa embrace life in future.
March 14, 2006
Lately we have been sharing what we have been trying to say to the community. We have posed questions like, "What sort of a community are we looking for? "What kind of people are needed for the creation of this community?"
We believe that if a responsible community is to come into being, everyone must realize that he counts and his contribution matters. Since we began this school in this community, we have received a lot of negative attitude from the community ranging from name calling to sabotage. We did not give up but continued to interact with the community, letting them know that this school was theirs and their children's. I am happy to report that our message has paid off. Ten months down the line, we have an understanding community that is not only willing to come for any meeting we call upon, but also given itself to help with the cleaning of the school surroundings!
I therefore want to call upon all neighbors to :
- Help support these children by fostering. We have no exact number of children infected with HIV/AIDS but certainly all are affected by the same disease through loss of parents.
- To think seriously about the plight of these children and widows and see how we can provide effectively to them. To which most of them need food. If you know of people or companies that can send us Milk and rice we would appreciate so much.
- Let us cooperate in mobilizing resources to help build a permanent school for the community. When the school is complete, 4 communities will benefit namely, Mutendere east, Mutendere, Helen Kaunda, Kalingalinga and Vera Chiluba,
- Those in the corridors of ‘The haves’ should share with those in the corridors of ‘The have not's’ There are a number of things that the west just treat us trash which could be very useful in Africa. Look around and see the things that you and your family are no longer using, it could be as ‘small’ as a laptop and as ‘big’ as a child’s doll or toy it will go a long way here in Africa.
If you have some item or something and you want to communicate to us please do not hesitate to get in touch with Carol and Ralph Sechriest at ladybugoh@adelphia.net or Sara and Marty at, sara@racadillo.com, or Willeke Versluis at, willekeversluis@hotmail.com (Willeke and Simon, will be coming to Zambia this June) or you can write to Annet Vanhoorn who is here is Zambia and working with us at, annet@ahorn.nl
Thanks for visiting our site.
We love you.
Ralph and Agnes
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October 25, 2005
Warmest greetings!!!
I want to take this opportunity to wish all my Zambian folk and all those that visited my country, a happy independence day!!! Just like you all I am forever proud of my home, my country, my culture, and my people which is why I choose to be happy and celebrate today and take time to thank God for the peace that we enjoy in Zambia. I know many countries that have not known peace on single day and still have to deal with other problems that we face too and I just realize that God has blessed Zambia regardless of what economic state we may be in, who has stolen what and who is exploiting whom, I believe we have so much to be thankful to God for....
On this day, 41yrs ago, the instruments of independence were signed, on this day Zambia was no longer under the oppression of colonial rule, on this day we said "we are free to run our own land, to elect our own people," on this day a democracy was born, a seed was sown. So wherever you may be on this day, whether in Alaska or Finland, Jamaica or North Korea....take a moment to reflect back on what makes today special and say "Thank you Jesus for the peace Zambia has known." Zambia is blessed with good weather (no hurricanes or Katrina), great people, natural resources, peace, a nation with God's hand upon it (declared a Christian nation), and many other things. So instead of talking down on your country be proud of it today if not any other day....even if you hate it today say "I'm a proud Zambian!" I am very passionate about my country and my people, even though people say my country is poor and a third world country and insignificant, I still hold my head high and say "I'm a proud Zambian!!" Thank you for representing my country wherever you are and keep the Zambian flag flying even higher....
I also want to say thank you to all the sportsmen and women, students, and all those who help put Zambia on the world map, you are our Zambian ambassadors. Rest in peace Lottie Mwale, you made us proud!!
HAPPY 41st BIRTHDAY MOTHER ZAMBIA!!!!!
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August 11, 2005
Hello everyone, we are enjoying the cold season here in Zambia. Soon we’ll get into the hot season and consequently the rainy season. We have only three seasons in Zambia. Meanwhile we are watching the leaves turn to yellow, gold and red. What a delightful time of the year to welcome you to Mutendere community. We take great interest to all our visitors and in my local language it gives the pleasure to say Mwaiseni. (Welcome)
Zambia continues to experience hardships in the face of high poverty levels. Poverty is more prevalent and higher among female-headed households than male headed ones. 75 percent of Zambian population is classified as poor, 58 percent of whom are said to be extremely poor. In Mutendere Community, women do so much more work than men and did not have lots of possibilities to change the situation. I live in a community where men nearly always made all the important decisions especially those related to household finances.
75 percent of the people in Mutendere are in an informal work. A lot of people are skilled in a lot of things. In the center of Mutendere is a Big market. The streets are swarming with people. Tens of thousands of women are selling everything from used clothes to sweets. Everyone tries to sell something, mart basket, even hats made of reeds. Others sell different products, people from nearby farms bring their agriculture produce and sell them in bulk to retailers, others sell handicrafts and still others furniture. But only a few people are buying.
On the last rung of the retail chain, one can buy a slice of a watermelon or a small glass of cooking oil. Traders often earn less than a dollar per day. The good news is that all these people have entrepreneurship minds. They survive from one day to another in conditions many would think impossible.
The word INTEMBA (makeshift store) is repeatedly coming up in the conversation with the people of Mutendere. This word is slowly changing to mean one's place of livelihood or work. So it goes without saying that when women say "Naenda kuntemba (I am going for work) it is in most cases, a reference to an informal work. Of course there are a number of topics the community will get down right to it and discuss. e.g. HIV/AIDS, which is a major problem to all, but it will all bow down to sharing ideas on businesses.
Another problem my community talks about is the Water problem. If we have for one month undisturbed water running from out taps, is a miracle! Finding alternative sources on the part of the of the council to address the water situation here has been defined as the greatest challenge. One reason is that the pipes are old and would need replacements, that is beside vandalism by so called petty thieves. With this in mind when the King World School is finally built we would need to drill a borehole (well).
May God bless your efforts to help,
Pastor Ralph Sebente
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AUGUST 2, 2005
KING WORLD SCHOOL.
THE ISSUE
King world school is defined as a community school for orphans and vulnerable children in Mutendere. King World Mission has attempted to bring education within the reach of these vulnerable children.
King World School in Mutendere is exceptionally active. There is a fairly number of various activities organized with education as a main task, or one of many. These include Religious, developmental, motivational to mention a few.
In May this year, Nabuur in Holland, initiated a network project to find twin schools in the west. The project through Nabuur website is aimed at finding schools in the west that are in the corridor of ‘the haves,’ to twin with the schools like King World School in the South that are in the corridors of ‘the have not’.
THE FOCUS
King World Mission was formed in January this year. The purpose of this effort has been and will always be to support the vulnerable in our community. The primary aim of this project is to motivate, support facilitate and encourage the community towards changing structures that cause impoverishment. We also aim to increase awareness of policy development issues.
TASK
We will create self sustainable projects for the women that are able to represent and challenge our community by involving them indecision making. To this end King World Missions’ desire is to build a school for this community where children who could not afford to get into the main stream education can come to. Gathering women, creating awareness on certain topic including HIV/AIDS, education as well as offering variety of training and seminars has been among the main activities of King World Missions.
The recent survey conducted reviewed that the two Government school in Mutendere loses 4 to 5 children each term as a result of their parents dying or guardians could not continue paying for their education. This is a very sad development. King World Missions has put programs that will help find foster parents for such children to help them though school.
ACTION.
King World Missions will need 22 Million Kwacha about 5,000.00 USD to start the school building project. This will facilitate for the purchase of land and digging of the foundation before the slab. As we all know that the hardest part in building is the slab, the rest is just erecting.
King world Missions, has introduced a committee that will look into the finances donated both to the school and to the organization. The scheme is designed in such a way that any sponsor is a friend and is free to give support either in kind or financial depending on the donors convenience. This will help the sponsor and the beneficiary to have a long lasting relationship.
Finances donated for this cause will be administered by a management committee which will insure that they are used for the purpose meant for in this case the purchasing of land and making the foundation. Donors will also receive annual financial report on the King World Website and the summary form of it will be sent to friends and to other sponsors on request.
Pastor Ralph Sebente
