King World School

This school was Agnes' idea. She came to me one evening and said,

"Ralph, supposing we were to take the children who are walking past, one by one, hoist them up with a fishing rod, give them each a bath, wash and mend their clothes and then let them go again.." "Then my dear wife" I interrupted, "by tomorrow they would look just as filthy and ragged as before"

The children here run about half dressed in just a thin blouse and no shoes. They chew carrots to stay the pangs, go from their cold homes (under the bridges) out into the cold streets. Yes, it has even gotten so bad in Zambia that countless children stop the passers-by and beg for K100.00 With this money they can only buy a carrot. The picture could not be more grim.

We have a girl called Mwaka at King World School. When Mwaka was one and half years old, both her parents died due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The children in the family had to be parceled out to the kind-hearted relatives.

And when things get tough there because the relatives are economically challenged, too, the children discover that the so called "kind-hearted" relatives are not so kind after all. It is at this time that children then run away from their homes and out into the streets.

Mwaka is now 3 years old and attending pre-school at King World School. You can help to put as many such children into school. When you give these kids a piece of yourself, there is a feeling they give back, something obvious, something I can not explain that is priceless.

It was Jonathan Cutler who said " If you are a mentor, even if you can be one for only one kid at a time, I promise that you will leave this earth a better place than you found it".

Welcome again to my community and King World School.

Rev. Ralph Sebente

HOW CAN YOU HELP??

We are inspired by the children’s determination to live and go to school against considerable odds.

When we see them wake up each day to start their daily struggle for survival amidst heavy obstacles and uncertainty, it gives us the power and drive to intensify our efforts to network and collaborate with others to help make a difference.

1. Help renovate the current school in Mutendere

2. Help build a new school for the underprivileged Children in Mutendere and Kalingalinga

We would appreciate help by providing input on some alternative strategies for start-up and the ongoing support of the project.

We need Neighbors who can partner with us and help search for organizations that can assist in training and affiliating with us.

We also need ideas for fund raising for our organization, so we can raise money to build the big school on our plot that will take in more children.

It is not easy for us to realize this dream without help from fellow minded people, who will deliberately, despite the economical challenge in the world today, decided to stand with us and the children here in Mutendere.

THANKS....AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

12-18-09

King World school just need a little extra assistance to reach our goals and book concrete results for our community in this case Mutendere and Kalingalinga. We need Neighbors who can partner with us and help search for organizations that can assist in raising up funds to buy a plot that is right in the heart of our community Kalinga-Linga. We also need ideas for fund raising for our organization, so we can raise money to build the school on our plot that will take in more children.

Our plan for the future of Mutendere and Kalingalinga is to put in place a fully fledged school that will give education to the vulnerable children that have been left out in the main stream education for obvious reasons. Ideas for start up and short term support for the children at King World School, We are inspired by children’s determination to live and go to school against considerable odds. When we see them wake up each day to start their daily struggle for survival amidst heavy obstacles and uncertainty, it gives us the power and drive to intensify our efforts to network and collaborate with others to help make a difference. We would appreciate help by providing input on some alternative strategies for start-up and the ongoing support of the project? Come to visit us and check us out to see the land in Mass media area where we want to put up a school.

Below is the quantifications as done by our contractor and his Labor.

There is a HUGE list of supplies needed to build the school. I can email it to anyone who requests it. Too much to list here.

Materials and Supplies

SUB TOTAL 99,891,500 ZK

LABOR 45,000,000 ZK

PLOTE WITH OLD HOUSE 45,000,000 ZK

SUB TOTAL 90,000,000 ZK

GRAND TOTAL 189,891,500 ZK

WE MAY ADD CONTIGENCY

5% 9,495,565

10,000,000

GRAND TOTAL 199891500 ZK

200,000,000

IF WE ARE TO SELL THE OLD PLOT SO WE CAN BUY THE NEW ONE IN THE COMMUNITY WE CAN SELL

WE BOUGHT @ 25,000,000

WE CAN SELL @ 60,000,000

WE STILL HAVE A DEFFICIT OF 140,000,000 ZK

MONEY RAISED FROM OUT SIDE ?

All the pricing was gotten from well established sources that will offer receipts upon buying. It is in the light of endeavoring to bring enlightenment and overcome illiteracy by 2% by the year 2015 that we ask for your indulgence in this project and help us raise the deficit so we can build the school for the vulnerable within our community.

KING WORLD MISSIONS

DR. RALPH SEBENTE, DIRECTOR

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2/11/10

Dear partners,

WE ARE SHIFTING THE SCHOOL TO OUR PLOT

Reference is made to the caption above in which we as a team of King World Missions have decided to move the school to our own plot. This has been made possible because of various reasons. The major one being the fact that every January our land lord (where the school is currently situated) adjusts the rentals upwards every January. This time she raised the rentals from ZK 700,000 to ZK 900,000.

(note: from approximately $145USD to $185USD)

King World Mission is a small Zambian organization based in the township of Mutendere and Kalingalinga in Lusaka. Our main objection is to feed and offer education to children and this is reflected in our motto. “ Educate a Child and he will be better placed in the community” We stand on “uninformed child will make uninformed

decision.”

For the past 7 years we’ve been running this small school of between 20 and 40 children at a rented house in Mutendere with great success. A good education, beside feeding and clothing them, is offered to children by which the seed is sown for a blossoming, educated society in future. Our dream is to educate even more

children especially those that are left out in the main stream education for obvious reasons.

Because the current school is small, our dream is to buy a bigger land where we can build a bigger school. Thank God with the help of our partners, this was done. A bigger land was procured last year within Kalingalinga.

The plot we bought has a house on it which has seen many Januarys (so to say) and is kind of worn out due to neglect. The Plot is 15 by 40 Meters. It is quite some big piece of land that in future we hope to put our house there also so we can get rid of paying rent as well. It is at this house where we want to shift the school to after we have done some renovations to it according to the council's regulations and requirements. We have been prompted to shift due to the skyrocketing rentals at the current house.

King World Missions staff and Teachers has agreed to putting effort to renovate the house at our land which looks old I must say. We need to put strong doors, open large windows as the current ones are small. Put bars and we also need to fix the floor which is kind of eaten up due to neglect. It would be foolish to have a structure that is empty

for this long, so opportunities for having it in use has been explored especially in the face of the new rental hikes.

NEEDS

1.Tap water

2.Large windows to allow for ventilation

3.strong doors and bars

4.floor in some rooms are eaten up

5.nice toilets (Flushable)

6.Electricity

7.Paint

8.and wall fence

We will use the unflinching donations we get from you our partners to renovate the house so we can have a school of our own as opposed to a school which is rented. When we are done with the renovations, no rent has to be paid! Both staff and teachers have agreed that this is the best move in the circumstances. The renovations might take 4 to 5 months of which During this period, the children will just be coming

to feed and go back home.

Your thoughtful notes and donation to King Word Missions and consequently to these children, is well appreciated by our big family here. It is good to note that we are together in nurturing these children and we do know that your kind thoughts will help sustain us through and through until we can boast of having a school of our own.

We will keep you posted as to when the renovation would start and how everything will be progressing. We hope to start by March by then the rains would have subsided and April it(rain) would have gone completely.

We thank you for standing with us and for all your donations.

Love,

Ralph

March 15, 2010

Timeline.

Hello buddies and friends of the project,

We have set a timeline for the commencement of the construction of the school. We feel 21st of April is ideal when the rains would have said their goodbyes to us while leaving the ground soft for the digging of the foundation. We feel by this time the paperwork would have been done by the Local authority and approved.

The timeline in this project is the motivation for action. It enables us to develop meaningful plan, with mileposts along the way to chart our progress relative to a predetermined completion date in this case 30th of October 2010. In short, the difference between success and failure in this project will depend on timelines that work. An old English proverb states; “That which can be done anytime is never done at all.” But when a timeline is set in this case 21st of April for the

commencement of construction (Even if it is just digging the foundation for the wall fence, we do hoping that others will come through for us. This will give us the frame of reference we need too!

I write this because crisis do happen, they are a fact of life. I remember the Murphy’s law: let me quote them for you though I am fully aware you know them well.

1.“If anything can go wrong, it will.”

2.“Nothing is as easy as it looks.”

3.“Everything takes longer than you think.”

4.“Left to themselves things tend to go from bad to worse.”

5.“If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one that goes wrong.”

From these laws as I was taught them in school, I know that Murphy was an optimist. Every time I go through the Murphy’s Law, I can’t help but smile. They make me laugh. Probably because every one of them contains a substantial element of truth. Sure, in my view, they are exaggerated but we have all at one time experienced, in our respective projects, things similar enough to the situation they portray.

The fact is, everything won’t go according to plan. Sometimes the most unexpected event works its way into the project. And the best crisis prevention technique we have is to keep the wary eye out for one of Murphy’s laws to appear, and to knowingly smile when it does, because we are prepared for it. For example number two and three are very obvious for King World Missions, more so that the money for the construction of the school is not enough.

We learnt in the leadership seminar taught by Judith, last year, that we learn a lot more of what’s really inside of us when we look at how we respond (feedback) when the wheels fall off and everything goes wrong. In the seminar we were put in pairs and told to share dreams to our friend who will in turn discourages you by telling you “It is not possible, It has never been done, You are the wrong color for this task, or the task is too huge for you an African. Others go to the extent of asking,” Where are you going to get the money to finance your dream? Just call it quits, you are not fit for it… etc” (End of Thinking Capacity)

But what was more inspiring was Judy’s conclusion, that how you deal with it is often much more important than what actually happens to you. It is the consequences of how we manage the process that determines how effectively we use the energy stemming from crisis. We need to be ready and we are, as a team here, at King World Missionsand further we have the right attitude.

I thought I should share with you how far I have gone with one of my two dreams I shared with you in the seminar. Could one you care to share with me how far you have gone with yours? I am all ears.

Over to you,

I love you all and keep up your good works.

Dr. Ralph Sebente

NB,

Attached is the Map of Mutendere sent to me by Fred. And some photos of our children.