LearnAsOne

Updated 4 January 2010.

The commitment of the Simakakata community is inspiring. They started by making over 60,000 bricks by hand and are now contributing skilled and unskilled labour for free to construct the first four classrooms.

What they can’t do is pay for the building materials such as cement, windows, timber and roofing sheets for the final classroom and five teachers’ houses they badly need. Here is a breakdown of the community’s requirements:

£5,700 - Classroom (1 more needed)
£5,700 - Teachers’ house (5 needed)
£7,500 - Bore hole (funded by the local council)
£34,200 TOTAL

Please click here if you would like to make a donation.

You’ll get to see regular updates from the school and hear ongoing stories from the people your money is helping.

Note: In Zambia if you provide the funding for a teachers’ house the government will provide a trained teacher for free.