Matching Grant project and trip to Zambia September 2013
On September 8th Ian Parker and Geoff Lucock set off for Zambia to visit many of the schools that have received Literacy Boxes in the past and to help distribute the newly arrived Literacy Boxes sent as part of the recent matching grant project
Progress report on the matching grant can be found here
Photos and commentaries on the trip can be found in the following Literacy in a Box Trust website albums
Zambia trip, In and around Lusaka, September 2013 39 photos and commentaries
Zambia trip, Matching grant project, September 2013 18 photos and commentaries
Zambia trip, Chipembele, September 2013 8 photos and commentaries
Zambia trip, Project Luangwa, September 2013 13 photos and commentaries
Zambia trip, Msoro, September 2013 11 photos and commentaries
Ian writes
"Our departure for Zambia coincided with the celebration of International Literacy Day on 8th September and the purpose of the trip was two-fold. Firstly, we went to evaluate the work of the Trust by visiting the schools and projects to which Literacy Boxes had been sent since the first boxes were sent in 2006. Secondly, we went to represent Roborough Rotary Club on the occasion of the distribution of Literacy Boxes and curriculum text books from their Matching Grant Project with Mfuwe Rotary Club, Zambia.
Zambia is a warm, friendly yet poor country but nothing can prepare you for the difference between thinking you know what Zambia is like ( from the video imagery we have on our DVD ) and what we actually saw and experienced. Much of the fringe forested countryside of Lusaka, the capital, has been chopped down for wood or to make into charcoal for cooking and the air is constantly filled with the smell of bonfires. Market stalls lined the city roads, traffic was chaotic and everywhere people were walking the main roads to and from their villages. Very quickly, the made up tar roads shifted to dirt roads of varying levels of bumpiness and although there is a road building programme underway, it will only link the major towns and leave even sizeable villages accessible only by the dirt tracks ( with no sign posts!! )
We arrived in Lusaka @ 06.15hrs on Monday 9th Sept and by the time we left for Mfuwe at 16.10hrs on Friday 13th we had visited 14 schools and projects, including Maluba Rotary Club and their project for HIV widows and orphans and the RotaKids of Libala Basic and Interactors of Libala High Schools, who have a link under Project Zambia with Wye Valley School in Bourne End, Bucks. We also spoke with Akim Banda, the Programme Manager for the British Council, who arranged the link between Wye Valley School and Libala
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Literacy in a Box
more They started their journey in mid-May and by mid-August the 72 Literacy Boxes had arrived in Mfuwe, Zambia. The schools are all on holiday so the boxes will be stored safely until the start of the new term on 9th September.
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