Help Complete Zambezi Sawmills Community School

Since our last update our progress has slowed down considerably at Zambezi Sawmills Community School while we continue to fundraise to complete the project.  We are more than halfway through the build with the security wall fence being completed and the classroom block being built to roof level. 

However, that doesn’t mean that Zambezi Sawmills Community School has been sitting idle! The school has been totally transformed in the last year thanks to the security wall.  The food garden that was completed earlier this year is thriving.  The school is growing tomato, chinese cabbage and english rape amongst other things and the crops will be ready to sell in a few weeks’ time bringing the school their first income.  The vegetables are not the only way of making money though, members of the community are also asking to use the garden as a venue to hold meetings which will be another source of income for the school.  The combination of these incomes will be re invested to make the garden become a sustainable business for the school and provide a much needed year round income.

As well as all of this, the garden and fruit trees have improved the school surrounding, the children are learning new skills and are taking responsibility for the garden, even coming to school through the school holidays to water the vegetables! None of these things would have been possible if it wasn’t for the security wall fence. So thank you to everyone who donated and made it happen.

However, we still need to build the roof structure of the classroom block, connect the classroom to electricity as well as plaster and paint the classroom and build a teachers house within the school grounds.  Please help us continue the great work that is happening at Zambezi Sawmills Community School and visit www.globalgiving.org/projects/complete-a-school-in-zambia/ to donate and receive quarterly reports on the progress of the project