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Dictionary Shipping Appeal |
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The Latest News - We've done it |
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Project Luangwa, in partnership with Chipembele Wildlife Educational Trust recently launched the appeal below and was amazed at the success. Within a few short days between us we had collected over £5000 through the Just Giving site. As we far exceeded our target the appeal has now closed.
We would like to thank everybody who kindly contributed to this appeal and will post the pictures of their arrival and distribution when we can.
We have been informed that the shipment may takesome time to reach Mfuwe but we will keep you all updated as things progress.
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| The Dictionary Shipping Appeal | |
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Project Luangwa is not the only charity working in South Luangwa; another is the Chipembele Wildlife Educational Trust whose field is educating local children about conservation. With many similar aims the two charities often work closely together.
Just recently Chipembele has been offered 10,000 brand new large format hardback Oxford English Dictionaries - yes, ten thousand, you did read it correctly - and approached Project Luangwa to see if we could jointly find a way of shipping at least some of them to Zambia. English is the official teaching medium in Zambian schools but is the second language of the local people, who speak Chinyanja as their first. Many pupils struggle with English and this is often shown in their exam results. So you can imagine the benefit of a good English dictionary. Between the two charities we aim to give a dictionary to every Secondary School Pupil and all the teachers in the Mfuwe area to help with their work, general education, class performance and exam success.Just imagine - every child at Secondary School with a dictionary.
Of course getting them here is easy. You just arrange shipping and hey presto, some weeks later they will appear in Lusaka. Then all you have to do is get them through customs and sort your transport to Mfuwe. Time consuming but not impossible.
So why am I telling you this? Well, unfortunately all this costs money. Although we have been offered discount on the shipping it will still cost about £500 to get 1000 out to Mfuwe. This is just 50p a dictionary - not bad for one that retails at £50 each. Together Chipembele and Project Luangwa hope to be able to be able to import at least 2000 if not all the dictionaries. But we're up against time - we have just until the end of September to raise the money or we lose the books.
It couldn't be easier to donate to this appeal. Just click here to go to the joint Chipembele/Project Luangwa Just Giving page. It will also tell you exactly how much we have raised so far.
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