A father of the fatherless, and protector of widows,
is God in His holy habitation. Ps 68:5
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.
Below are pictures of the present school in a rented building at
Plot 119, Mutendere. Isn't the sign welcoming?
The children love learning as you can see
by the smiles on their faces.
A bridge has recently been made to cross the ditch to the school. Out door toilet is shown below.
These are urgent needs as of the first part of 2008. . Several other needs on the existing school are still outstanding, the most important of which are:
Constructing a bridge: -ZK 645,000 (done) (Approx. $135 USD)
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.
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.
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.
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.
