Hambalamatu School built 1.8.2024 to 27.9.2024
Hambalamatu School is in a rural area. It has one small classroom for 3 classes teaching 58 girls and 69 boys from 5 years old to the end of Grade1(8 years old). The school only has 5 books. Children dopped out of education after Grade 1 if they could not manage to walk to another school.
Monze Department of Education deployed one qualified teacher, there are 2 volunteer teachers.
In June 2024, a Friends of Monze trustee visited Hambalamatu with our partners Zambia Women and Girls Foundation. Many people from 5 villages and 4 Headmen came to meet us. They showed us hand fired bricks in kilns, river sand and crushed stones they had prepared.
The school had no water so the first thing Friends of Monze did to help was drill a bore hole with a hand pump.
Men and women from the community worked as volunteers helping the contractor to build a beautiful new 3 classroom block, complete with offices and storerooms.