Once again this year we went to Zambia for the graduation ceremony for the eight volunteer teachers we trained for the second time.
The stay was short, 16 days, but particularly intense.
Let us try to briefly summarise the activities of those days:
- We were received by the provincial director of the Ministry of Education, to whom we donated our recently published textbook. We also met the head of early childhood education. Both gave us a warm welcome and encouraged us to continue with our Project. They liked the book very much and will evaluate its use in similar realities
- We met the next day with the head of the Ministry for the Chipangali District who expressed his satisfaction with the training course and the schools built
- We held a graduation ceremony in the village of Molotsi with great participation of the local people, the authorities, our teacher trainers and the trained students. A huge satisfaction to have trained these eight new volunteer teachers
- We opened, in Molotsi as well, our third school, completed, equipped and immediately operational
- We were in Kaulembe, our 2020 schools are fully functioning and in use. The village organised a party and they gave us…..some hens!
- We visited the village of Mkanda Mateyo where next year we will start our fourth school
- We visited two other villages, potential sites of future schools
- In a long meeting with our teacher trainers, we examined how and where to continue the Volunteer Teacher Training Project, having completed the programme for the Chipangali district. We asked for their willingness to continue, which they enthusiastically granted us.
- We have planned a monitoring service, which will take place in January 2024, to understand the impact of our course on the Chipangali district: on families, children, teachers trained by us, etc.
- We have decided to begin another two-year volunteer teacher training course in another district of Eastern Province. We estimate a start in April 2024, but we need to find donors
- We visited the Comboni Mission in Chicowa, which is carrying out a very important farming project for the area
- We witnessed the initiatives that Pamodzi Ndi Ana carries out in support of children in the area affected by the congenitalspinal cord abnormality
As you have read, only a few days, but really full of activities.
In the photos below you can see the events we have briefly described.
Our Project to help the people of the Eastern Province, and specifically pre-school children, is going ahead. All those involved, ministerial authorities, local authorities, village leaders, families, work enthusiastically, each with their possibilities and skills, to ensure that the Project continues. And in this we continue to invest every single euro that is donated to us, as well as our time and energy.
