Help us raise €9963 to build 2 classrooms, an office and a toilet block for The Kindergarten of Joy. This would allow 80 children to stay out of child labour and human trafficking, instead they go to school for free, and hundreds more in the future.
What is the problem of the Kindergarten of Joy?
Currently there are many problems for the Kindergarten of Joy. Problems like there is not enough money for food, teachers are underpaid (and sometimes not even paid), there are not enough facilities to teach, there is no money for school uniforms and transportation is a problem for children to get efficiently to and from school.
The average GDP per person in Zambia: $1.3K
Children aged 7-17 in labour in Zambia: 950.000
This is 34.4% of all the children in Zambia.
HIV positive in Zambia: 1.1 Million
Literacy rate: 55.3%
Help us raise the funds needed to keep the children enrolled at Nakawa Community school out of child labour and to make sure more children can join. We are currently working towards the self-sufficiency and accessibility of the school and we need your help!
About the Nakawa community school
Nakawa community school is a non-governmental, community initiative school. The school offers free education, moral care and support to the poor, underprivileged and orphaned children of Nakawa and the neighbouring villages.
The project is run by Cynthia and her husband Silumba with the aim of giving to their community. The project was founded after the realisation that they could make a change in their community where the majority of children had to work in order to eat. Education is a fundamental right of every child and creates a stable foundation from which they can build a brighter future.
What problems is the school facing?
Nakawa school has existed for several years now. There is great demand for schooling in this area, but currently the school can not operate properly due to lack of resources. Without help the school cannot sustain the day to day cost of feeding the children and other necessities. The school is currently supporting itself solely on the profits from the local shop and the village farm, which is not enough to feed the children three meals a day.
The classrooms
What are the problems for the children?
The school is located in one of the poorest areas of Zambia. Children aged 4-17 years old do not have the time to go to school because they have to work in order to eat. If they stop working, they can not afford to buy food for the day. Most of the children are subject to an unkind and abusive lifestyle of selling on the side of the road, herding cattle and farming. Many children are orphans, abandoned or living with their grandparents which they have to take care of. Poverty is the driving factor behind most of these conditions.
The two new classrooms The Next Smile helped build last year mean that more children can now go to school instead of working. However, to ensure that the children can keep attending school there is a need to extend the feeding program for Nakawa community school and to make sure that the school in the future can cover these costs without the help from The Next Smile or other external parties.
The building process of our school!
What we can make happen with your help
The Next Smile will supports Nakawa community school with the funds needed to expand their feeding program to three meals a day, seven days a week.
Throughout the year we will also work towards the school becoming self-sufficient. The aim is that the school by the end of 2022, to the greatest extent possible, shall be able to support the feeding program without help from The Next Smile or other external parties.
In addition to this we intend on working to find solutions that mean more children from the area around the school get the chance to join the classes and therefore no longer have to work.
The Teachers
Why donate to us? What will happen with your donation exactly?
100% of the donations will be used for the Nakawa community school project in Zambia. The Next Smile takes 0% of the raised money for operational costs since every volunteer working for the charity is unpaid.
We also make sure that there are no middlemen involved between The Next Smile and the project in Zambia. We are in direct contact with the director of the school. This way there are no third parties involved who can make a profit on any transaction.
Please help us make sure we can keep providing education for children in Zambia.
Additional information
Classes from Monday to Friday
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Maths
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English
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Indigenous languages
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Science education
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Sports
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Religious education
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Creative arts
Classes are provided from Monday until Friday between 8 am until 12.30 pm except during public holidays or as declared by the government.
First term: January – April
Second term: May – August
Third Term: September – December