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Chiyembekezo School was set up in 2006 to provide some of Mfuwe’s vulnerable children with pre-school education. Its four founding trustees are local Zambians who are very aware of the important role that education played in their own careers. They saw that orphans and other vulnerable children were missing out on the valuable education that they had enjoyed because their parents or aunts and uncles couldn’t afford the extra financial burden.
From their own funds, they employed a part-time teacher and set up morning classes for children in a nearby Anglican Church. Word spread, and soon more than fifty children were attending the school each day. It was clear that they were going to need help! When Kelvin Shumbwamuntu, one of the School’s founders, became Flatdogs Camp’s accountant, Flatdogs was impressed with his resourcefulness and offered help. Now Flatdogs Camp pays the salary of a fully-qualified teacher, and has taken on a more wide-ranging financial and advisory role.
Since then, the project has thrived under Dailes Lungu, the school’s excellent teacher, who expertly manages the roomful of noisy kids! Mr Sekala, the Headmaster at Mfuwe Basic School, says that children coming to his school from Chiyembekezo are well ahead of others in their age group, which is a great credit to Dailes.
In May 2010 Kelvin, with the help of Flatdogs and their guests' generous donations was able to buy some plastic chairs for the children, and more textbooks and teaching aids for Dailes.
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