Scotch College

The Kapumfi Project

On the 1st of August 2005 Rev. Tim Costello launched the Scotch College Kapumfi Project. International efforts to Make Poverty History continue to gather momentum and here at Scotch College we’re eager to ‘do our bit’.

This exciting new pilot program will see Scotch College partner with World Vision to construct Kapumfi Basic School in the Mpika district of Zambia, approximately 600km north east of Lusaka.

Zambia is an impoverished African nation with a population of about 11 million. Life expectancy is only 37 years, child mortality is a shocking 20% and the unemployment rate is over 50%.

Updates

Regular updates from Kapumfi including letters, photographs and video footage will be provided as the school develops and the possibility of a future study tour exists.

July 2008 Update

The third and final stage of construction has begun at Kapumfi. The construction of a Science Laboratory and Library will increase the number of functioning classrooms to seven. The second of two teacher residence is now inhabitable and has attracted an additional qualified teacher to the region. Plans are also underway to facilitate the drilling of a borehole at Kapumfi School.

The latest progress received from the field states, “Kapumfi school is changing its face as every phase is completed. It is now able to provide a wide range of activities for students. The new school will benefit more than 3000 school aged children in the ADP. Currently the enrollment is at 448 (258 boys and 190 girls). These students are now learning in a much more conducive environment.”

This house was recently rehabilitated. As a result, a new female teacher has been sent to the school by government. There are now two inhabitable teacher houses at Kapumfi.

Progress is being made on the new Science Laboratory at Kapumfi.

Workers in the new Science Laboratory at Kapumfi.

A student nurturing one of the many trees planted, in order to form a wind break, during the Scotch Kapumfi tour in September 2006.

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