HELPING COMMUNITIES – ZAMBIA

Impact Letter on the Feeding Programme Seldom is it heard that a child wants to attend school on a weekend!  But that’s exactly what has been reported in the letter received from Brother Innocent at the Holy Family School, Monze, in the St Augustine Province in Zambia. Attendance at the…

HHI is 25 years young this year and to celebrate we are launching the Choongo Challenge! The Choongo Challenge aim is to raise £25,000 to provide a second dormitory block to relieve the chronic overcrowding that disabled children. These children, board at the Special Needs Unit Choongo School – due…

As you may have read in previous articles, Choongo School is in dire need of better dormitory facilities. They are overcrowded with sometimes two or three having to share a bed. Two of the children are recorded in the videos below describing their plight. Please look and listen, and respond…

Choongo School is a mainstream Secondary school 8 km outside Monze. Mr Mwzila is the Head teacher. The school has a residential unit which specifically caters for nearly 60 physically disabled students. It is an all-inclusive school. The disabled students are aged between 9 and 23. There are two dormitories…

Most of the terrain in the Southern Province is rough and sandy. There are no orderly pavements and tarmac roads as we expect here in the UK. The wear and tear on wheelchairs is phenomenal and as a result, every week people come to the HHZ compound from far and…

Imagine you have a large family and very little disposable income. Should one of your children have a disability and needs to attend a special school as a boarder many miles away, then that expense is completely out of the question. This is the situation in which many Zambian families…

Since it was first established in 1999, Health Help International has had a strong bond with Monze Mission Hospital. It is a local hospital within walking distance from the Health Help Zambia compound. Over the years many medical elective students from the UK have lodged in the Health Help Zambia…

UNICEF reported that in countries where menstrual hygiene is taboo, girls in puberty are typically absent for 20% of the school year. HHI has been on a mission to address this statement from UNICEF with our own MHM (Menstrual Hygiene Management) programme. Our two HHZ seamstresses, Alistair and Primeldah, have…

HHI first made a visit to Nanga Special School in 2015. Nanga Special School has 25 – 30 disabled children who are all boarders. There were two ill-equipped classrooms, two shabby dormitories and rudimentary facilities. What shocked us most was the nature of the sanitary facilities. Both boys and girls,…

HHI UK became involved with Muumba school in 2009 when representatives of the local community asked us if we could help do something more for their children, including those who were orphaned and vulnerable. They had a simple building, made from mud bricks and corrugated sheets. There were no windows…