With the two classrooms full in both morning and afternoon sessions, it became clear that a covered area was needed in order to accommodate the youngest pupils. Stand by Hope and Market Square Uniting Church Toddler Group in Merthyr Tydfil!…
Our Disabilities Affairs Manager, Jonah Sialumano, has sent us this news about Florence Chipunza who has recently completed her knitting machine training at the HHZ and has been given the machine she has been trained to use. ‘Florence is physically…
Muumba Community School Teaching staff and volunteer teachers 1. Mr Bruce Bbilika - Head Teacher 2. Bertha Kabunda Bbilika - deputy Head teacher 3. Kennedy Nchimunya 4. Prisca Hatembo 5. Tammie musako 6. Chipo Naampwa The more observant among you…
If you have already looked through the March 2016 Tidings you will see that the Week 12 article (June 12 – 18) features the disabled teacher, Prisca Hatembo, who is currently salaried as a volunteer teacher in Muumba school. Prisca…
Many of the items we pack at Mamhilad are labelled for dispatch to people who have particular needs. So, when our Zambian colleagues requested a sewing machine for a blind lady called Winifreda, who lived in Pemba, we duly loaded…
Five years ago HHI received a scanner donated by the Deeside League of Friends in North Wales. The machine is still operating in Gwembe District Hospital in Zambia. Now, five years on, the machine replacing the one in Gwembe is…
18 day old Royd Chifweta wearing HHI knitted garments. Sadly, Royd’s mother died from ‘an overflowing of blood’ immediately after giving birth to him. There had been no one available in their remote village to take her to the rural…
Bright is a blind young man who was supported by HHI in Zambaia to complete his education, and obtain his teaching qualifications. As you can see he is now a qualified teacher of the blind, and is a great success…
On a recent visit to Zambia we went to see the staff and pupils at Nanga special school, north of Mazabuca and about an hours drive from Monze. Dreadful - the only word to describe what we witnessed here. Where…