News from the Q Fund …
Greetings from Chimoza! As the school year draws to a close in mid-December, we look back on a year of great
achievements. We will soon graduate our fourth class of seventh graders. New classroom blocks have been completed for grades 5-7, and the 8th and 9th grade blocks should be finished early next year. By then, Chimoza will have both underground electricity and running water. We have added more restroom facilities, and our partner, Seeds of Hope International-who specializes in hygiene, sanitation andcommunity health education-frequently brings international visitors to Chimoza to demonstrate the success of our model.
In July, we completed construction on a new clinic that offers non-emergency services and initial blood tests for malaria. The local governing council of Bwana Mkuba has given us more land, effectively quadrupling the size of our campus. The recent addition of a groundskeeper, gardener and night watchman will enable us to maintain our beautiful campus.
On the academic side, we have a new headmaster who previously ran a school in Lusaka and is well versed in the latest educational regulations and requirements. He has hired new teachers who have top credentials, raising the educational bar at Chimoza to its highest level. School now begins at 7:00 a.m. and ends at 3:15 p.m. and lunch is provided for all students and faculty. By year’s end, Chimoza will become a private school, a move made to protect it from possible future absorption by surrounding government schools. However, the school will remain tuition-free for all students.
In July, Dr. Moffatt Zimba of Northrise University told me that “completing what The Q Fund has done in the timeframe it has done it is unheard of in Africa.” I want to offer my sincerest thanks to you for your continued prayers and support. Your love and compassion has reached across continents to forever change the lives of these and future students of Chimoza.
“Love is what we are here for. Love knows no boundaries,
no limitations, no hatred nor fear.” Chellie Kew Ndola, Zambia October, 2008