My recent trip to Zambia proved to be both fruitful and challenging. With persistent heavy showers throughout the month, driving to some to the outreach villages was difficult to say the least. The six major projects initiated in 2010 are More details >
Welcome to the new website! We hope that you will be able to see more of the vital work we carry out in Zambia and find these pages easier to navigate. A special thanks to Miranda at Morphity for freely More details >
Children don’t ask to be born and when you are born into a Zambian family the chances of losing your parents at an early sage are very high. The HIV and AIDS in Zambia pandemic has infected or affected almost More details >
In a recent program the Big Give set up a scheme in schools to inspire the next generation of philanthropers, using the Dragon School in Oxford as a pilot. After researching 6000 charities on the site three were selectecd as the More details >
Life in Zambia is tough for a school child, especially if you an orphan and have little financial support to pursue your education. Life is is even tougher if you are a child with physical or mental disabilities. The Butterfly More details >
The British and Foreign School Society gave us a grant in 2007 to provide materials and equipment for the new high school we had built at Mukuni, without this we would not have been able to open. This grant also included funds to More details >
Seeing the heartbreaking pictures coming out of Haiti confirms the importance of international aid work and the need for our support in developing countries. Life is a struggle on a daily basis but when something as catastrophic as an earthquake More details >
After working in temperatures reaching 35 degrees my sons, Mike and David built four homes in Mukuni Village for the elderly and widows with orphans. The senior headman selected the most deserving cases. All four houses were given to elderly people More details >
With the school holidays under way and the children enjoying their summer break, surprisingly African children actually prefer to be at school. Staying at home in a rural village holds very little appeal. There are no televisions, computer games or toys to occupy More details >
In most western countries children with physical or mental special needs are able to receive an education, African children are less fortunate. Last year the Zambian government provided Mukuni Basic School with a special educational needs teacher and that was all. No materials, no More details >