<u>21st November 2006.</u>
This is what I physically found out about an orphanage we may identify to donate to as Bwanji Family/Charity/Social (the last words are the proposed for us, Charity sounds good though!!!)
<u>FLYING ANGELS CHRISTIAN MISSION COMMUNITY SCHOOL</u>
Underlined above is the name of the School/Community orphanage I visited situated in N’gombe compound, deep into what is called “New N’gombe”. The man running it is a Pastor Sakala. I had a long chat with him and he took me around, and below is what I found out and saw.
The Community School was founded on four basic areas of interest being
1. Education
2. HIV/AIDS Sensitization
3. Life Skills &
4. Spiritual devotion
<u>1. EDUCATION</u>
• The school has 751 pupils in total from grades one to seven of which 250 are orphans
and they are not charged anything for the education they are getting.
• 501 children whose parents can afford to pay for them are divided into two main
categories.
(i) These pay a ZMK 15, 000.00 a month towards their education
(ii) These pay ZMK 7, 500.00 a month towards their education
• 15 of the orphaned children (both boys & girls) have nowhere to stay. As a result,
they were made borders at the same school. They have wooden beds but no
mattresses, blankets, nor bed sheets and their clothes and rooms are not that good
looking though recently plastered.
• The money paid by some children’s parents and relatives is used to buy meals for all
of them (specifically, they eat porridge for lunch)
<u>2. HIV/AIDS</u>
• They have a community support group for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Most of these are the parents to the children at the school.
• An Anti AIDS Club for pupils had been formed so as to sensitize them (pupils) and
the community at large.
• There are monthly health talks held with the community. Different kinds of people
from all walks of life are also invited to these meetings. At these meetings, people on
ARV are encouraged not to loose hope and discontinue taking the HIV/AIDS drugs.
<u>3. LIFE SKILLS</u>
• A centre for skills impartation (training) is what the community school/orphanage is
trying to put up as they do not have the resources to as at present.
• Once in three (3) months, skilled parents (e.g. carpenters, welders, craftsmen) are
invited to display their works to the children so as to encourage them (children) to
look forward to a very productive future.
<u>4. SPIRITUAL</u>
• Devotions are done everyday. Members of staff and community leaders are the
ones for this meeting, which coincidentally I found them holding it though I had to
disturb the Pastor and whisk him from the meeting.
• Every Friday, Children (pupils) are the ones that hold the devotion meeting.
This is all I have guys, so I leave it all up to you to decide what next to do. I however, went to one other orphanage/community school just within N’gombe compound. I must confess that the guys have got no info or idea about what they are running!!! I was busy canceling figures as I was taking notes, they got nothing on paper and I just ruled them out.
Anyone who wants to see the place, anytime I will always create time for our good cause!!!
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