The main steel frame is up
Only four weeks after we demolished our first old toilet, all the main steel beams are now in place; and the distinctive shape of the inverted roof is clear.
Concreting the base
We’ve almost finished the footings and base slab, which are taking 39 cubic metres of concrete. Here’s Tonny Makosa, our Zambian architect, inspecting the works.
Starting to take shape
We’ve almost completed preparing the footings and base for the concrete. The wooden framework and underground pipe-runs are in place, and the line of plastic upright pipes show where the long row…
RIP our first original mud toilet block.
Thank you for 15 years’ faithful service.
At the end of the week, we’d demolished all our old toilets and cleared the site.
We’re saving everything we can for future projects, and have already use…
Work has started!
We’ve erected fencing around the construction site to keep the children out!
After the project, we’ll reuse the corrugated iron and gum poles to build pens and shelters for the livestock we plan t…
New Kitchen
Thanks to the generosity of some overseas friends, local builders erected a new school kitchen during the closure. We’ll use this to provide every pupil with a free daily hot meal.
Our nat…
Busy in closure
The staff all worked throughout the Covid 19 closure period. We seized the opportunity to spend 4 hours a day studying an on-line teacher development course run by the UK Open University. Its ‘Teac…
Reading to the community
Every term, all the pupils in Grades 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 & 11 spend one whole day taking books into the local community, and reading stories to the children whose parents can’t afford to send them t…