Chamaweya School

Actually, Chamaweya School doesn't currently (15 June 2011) exist! MEL has been helping the Chamaweya Village community to support their orphans for some years, now. Last year, a village delegation came to ask if it were possible for us to help them build a much-needed primary classroom block: the village children faced a walk of 5-8 kilometres to reach the nearest primary schools at Chasato or Chivumu or Chidebwe. That meant only older children, 8 years old or more, could manage the journey: younger children had to wait to start school until they could endure the long walk there and back.

Supporters in the UK give MEL clothing, footwear, learning resources and other items of use to the villagers around Ngala. We distribute these very publicly, to make sure our donations are fairly distributed.

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September 2011

There's still a bit of beamfilling to be done, plastering to complete and floors to lay, but Chamaweya School now exists! Everyone concerned asked that thnaks be passed to those in the UK who helped make this achievement possible. 

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In 2010, MEL was also asked to help provide a bicycle ambulance: 'our sick villagers go to the clinic [7kms away] on the back of a bicycle... and come back dead!' said Mr Chakwera, the village headman. MEL found £250 from reserves... and Chamaweya village now has the use of a bicycle ambulance to transport its sick and elderly.

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Plastering in progress

Chiefs, community members and builders pose in front of their hard work.

The Chamaweya villagers with the sand and gravel they have collected, and the shelter their children will use until we help them build their classroom block this year

  

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