Work is progressing well on the building of the new purpose-designed school, thanks to Build IT International, a UK-based not-for-profit assisting Zambian communities to provide low-cost community buildings.
Build IT is not only building the school, but is also training 12 local men and women in basic building skills so that the impact of this project will continue long after the last brick is put in place!
In 2010, Donata Kalunga, the school's founder, approached Build IT about building rooms for the school as we were being forced to leave the rental premises. The project proper began in April 2011. Build IT hired architect Nichola Phiri to develop the design for the three-room school with help from Donata and some of the children.
Building began late 2011 and is scheduled for completion in April 2012. For more details on the project, see Donata School.
The new building incorporates design features such as wider doors, ramps, hand-rails, quiet space and good acoustics. Critically, a permanent facility will trigger Government support, including trained specialist teachers, from the Ministry of Education.
Sign language course improves
life for our deaf children.
A three month sign language
course was run through May,
June and July 2006. As well as the
children, 33 adults attended
including the school’s
teachers, parents, local business
people, and staff from other
schools who wanted to learn
sign language.
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We would like to continue sponsoring other children for onward
schooling at Da Gama Catholic
School for disabled children
in Luanshya. Our one student there Bernadett is getting on very well. Sponsorship
is around US$250/ year
for each child.
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Children who have attended
our school in the past, but whose parents
have now sent them to the Government
school return to play with their
friends. They obviously feel
happy and safe here.
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