PLEASE HELP

We seek financial support for this Humanitarian Project in Zambia.

This is TAONGA Community School, Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.

It has 600 pupils in a school that is falling down and has just one toilet.

THE NEEDS of this TAONGA Project

• Four new toilets for dignity, better sanitation and limitation of diseases like cholera.

• A re-roofing and refurbishment of the school building, to provide a safe learning environment and

secure facility for school equipment.

• School materials and curriculum text-books to ensure all children can access an education.

• Teacher support to enhance the pupils learning and teacher satisfaction.

Of the 600 children in TAONGA Community School, Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia

• 300 children are orphans who cannot contribute to their schooling. They live mostly with their

grandmother, or other relatives. Without an education they have no hope.

• 100 are vulnerable and have absentee fathers and mothers who can’t make ends meet. They also

cannot contribute to their schooling.

• The remaining 200 are those who can manage, once in a while, to pay the K70 towards the

costs of schooling for a term. Equivalent to about £2, it barely scratches the surface of the real cost

of educating the children, with most community schoolteachers working on a volunteer basis.

This two-part PROJECT urgently needs financial support – PLEASE!

Initially this will enable the purchase and installation of the four toilets as a priority.

• The school can then be made habitable and secure, allowing the teachers to educate in a

humanitarian and secure environment.

This done, it will allow:

• School materials in Literacy Boxes to be supplied, along with curriculum text-books, knowing they

will be stored securely and used for the education of the orphans and very poor children.

• Teacher support is to be offered, as appropriate, for the school and teachers.

Please enquire of your Club / District Foundation chair to confirm the eligibility of your donation to

support the Taonga project for District matching, so doubling your contribution.

For further information on this project or to donate, please contact:

Ian PARKER by email: ian@literacyboxtrust.org.uk or call on 0798148089