We begun work here in this rural school, 25 miles east of Monze town and approachable only by a rough unmade road in 2022. The school is on the edge of the Zambian plateau and the land descends to the Kariba dam , children walk for up to 2 hours a day up and down hill to get to school each day. Namateba school educates 522 children aged 5-16 years, numbers have increased since education was made free for all children in Zambia. Namateba had 4 good classrooms and 3 classrooms where the roof kept blowing off due to termite damage.

The first thing that we did was to drill a bore hole, which allowed our builder Stanley Dinda to build 3 new classrooms. We trained 10 young people from Namateba as building apprentices.

We also built 4 pit latrine toilets to improve health and sanitation.

Our big concern is that the borehole we drilled has now dried up.

The school has a small garden but not enough water from the nearby community borehole to grow much food for the children.