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Friends
for Zambia is a Canadian non-governmental organization (NGO) and
Registered Charity raising money to build a community school in Lilayi,
Zambia. We need your help to construct Twitti School.
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Our
Mission
The
Mission of Friends For Zambia is to support basic education for the
children of Lilayi, Zambia. We believe that education is the key
to a better future for these children and their families. We put
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Twitti School Project
In
response to a request from Zambian educators, Friends for Zambia is
financing the construction of a basic school in the low-income farming
community of Lilayi. As of December 2011, FFZ has raised $610,000
in
Canadian funds from a budget of $630,000. Two 4-classroom
buildings have been finished, as well as three washroom facilities and
a water well. The finishing touches are being made to the
Library/Administration Building. The final structure, the
3-classroom building, is well underway with the walls and roof in
place. The school population at the end of the 2011 school
year was 310 pupils. Plans are underway to move to Grade 8 in
2013 and to Grade 9 in 2014. There will then be
approximately 350 children in 11 classes, from Pre-Kindergarten to
Grade 9.
The official opening of Twitti School will take place on Friday, July
13, 2012. Many Canadian supporters will travel to Zambia to celebrate
this important event.
Partners of Friends for Zambia
Lafarge Cement Zambia
donates bags of cement for the construction of Twitti School.
Lafarge has a plant not far from Twitti School and is concerned about
the education of local children.
Compassionate Eye Foundation
Compassionate
Eye Foundation (CEF) has agreed to fund the construction of the
third and final classroom block at Twitti School.
CEF is an innovative non-profit organization founded on
the principle that creative people as a community could and want to make a
positive difference in the world. Each year on or around June 21st,
the Summer Solstice, photographers and their crews around the world produce a
one day stock photo shoot. The royalty revenues generated through the sale of
stock photography by partner Getty Images (plus a donation from Getty Images)
flows to CEF. CEF's mission is to support, honour, and empower those in
developing nations in order to expand educational opportunities, basic health
services, and tools for sustainable economic development. To find out more about CEF, please visit their website
at www.compassionateeye.org.
Government of Canada
The Canadian High Commission of Zambia has provided funding to purchase
textbooks for Twitti School, and bookcases in which to store
them. The pupils and teachers are benefiting greatly from these
locally approved and acquired textbooks.
Colin B. Glassco Foundation of Calgary
provided the funds for drilling the borehole well in September
2009. This Canadian foundation has several water projects in
Zambia.
Innovative Fitness of Vancouver has donated money from their annual fundraising event for charities for the past two years.
Rotary International:
The Chilanga Rotary Club, together with 4 clubs from District 7810
(Canada/USA): Rotary Club of Fredericton, Sunrise Rotary Club,
Sackville Rotary Club and Presqu’ile Rotary Club have made
contributions to a Matching Grant allowing the purchase of 10 computers
and a printer for Twitti School. They will be installed in the
new Library/Administration Building upon its completion in December
2011.
School Partners
Bliss Carman Middle School
of Fredericton, NB, continues to support Twitti School in 2011 –
2012. The Art classes designed a Friendship Banner that was taken
to Zambia in November 2011 to show their solidarity with the children
of Lilayi.
George Street Middle School
of Fredericton, NB, has begun another school year of raising money for
Twitti School. As a sign of friendship the Art classes
prepared a colourful banner that was delivered to Twitti in November
2011
Simonds High School of Saint John, NB, will continue their efforts to sponsor Sara, a Twitti School pupil, by raising funds through school activities in 2012.
Many other groups and individuals also make generous donations to the project.
Scholarships
For
the 2011 school year donors to Friends For Zambia and the Twitti School
Project sponsored 15 vulnerable children who are pupils at the
school. Several of these needy children have been orphaned
due to HIV/AIDS. FFZ checks on their progress, provides photos for
the sponsors and encourages communication with them.
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