Children's Town Malambanyama

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Children's Town Malambanyama
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founding 1990
Country Zambia
student 437
Website www.dappzambia.org/projectlines/childrens-town

Children's Town Malambanyama is a school for former street children of the non-governmental organization “Development Aid from People to People in Zambia” (DAPP), a partner organization of the non-governmental organization Humana People to People .

Geographical location

The school is located 100 km northwest of the capital Lusaka (via Landless Corner), in the Chibombo district of the central province of Zambia , five kilometers south of the village of Malambanyama on the road to Mumbwa .

task

Approximately one million orphans in Zambia who are not from the traditional network of major African more families can be collected, living in wretched conditions and constant threat on the streets of big cities of micro trade , theft , drug dealing and prostitution . The facility provides a conducive environment and education for an average of 330 of them. Most of the 8 to 14-year-old youngsters are identified by the state social welfare system and checked by project staff for their need before they are accepted. At the same time, the school is a center for the support of disadvantaged children and their host families for the surrounding 348 villages.

In the fourth quarter of 2006, the facility had 179 day school students and 106 schoolchildren who - divided into "families" of 5 to 15 children each with an educator - received free accommodation , food , clothing , teaching material and individual care. 45 young people went to secondary school. With a slightly predominant proportion of girls is UNESCO target Education For All (EFA) striven for.

school career

Four female and eight female teachers who have completed formal pedagogical training and are attending advanced training courses teach ten classes according to the curriculum of the Zambian public schools. Great emphasis is placed on learning the English language , which has been the official language in Zambia since colonial times and the link between the eight official national languages and 72 dialects .

In addition, the children are offered five steps in practical subjects:

  1. "Exploration" (getting to know the environment and its nature , social integration , accident prevention , first aid , hygiene , HIV / AIDS )
  2. basic skills and responsibility , buying and selling , keeping pets ( goats , sheep , rabbits , ducks , donkeys )
  3. Home Economics (including hygienic food preparation ), biological vegetable gardening , crafts
  4. Agriculture I (production of corn , peanuts , beans ; help with the food supply in the kitchen )
  5. Agriculture II, final year of grades 7 and 8 (practice in pig and chicken husbandry , agriculture)

Leisure activities

Sport and culture are assigned an important role to keep the former street children accustomed to independence during the school-free period . The school has soccer , volleyball and “ netball ” teams with which it competes at both local and supra-local levels. She has a choir , a brass band , a steel drum - band , a drama - and a dance group who make an important part of the overall school education and the frequent festivals and to sponsors advertise. These activities strengthen the self-confidence of all members of the school community and the connection to the residents of the neighboring villages, in which the school reaches a further 7,680 orphans and children at risk through an outside program. Among the quarter - final exams come from there hundreds of relatives and neighbors to check in addition to official statements in so-called "people's examinations" together what the children have learned.

Schoolchildren who could not qualify for grades 7 and 8 are supported in doing practical work in the neighborhood. Very good students receive a scholarship of the Educational Ministry , the Chibombo district , DAPP and other leading further to visit schools to 12th grade. At the beginning of 2007 1,400 children had attended school.

history

The school was founded in 1990 by DAPP and the current director, Moses Zulu. A local chief allowed the use of fallow land. You started with two children in tents. With self-broken stones and hand-formed bricks, six sleeping houses, a suitable building complex for classes and meetings , a few simple teachers' houses, a kitchen and latrines were gradually built. After eleven years could electricity be connected for evening learning, for the pump of a drinking water - memory for computers and televisions . A well-equipped hospital , post office , telephone and internet are still only accessible in Lusaka in 2007, outside of the rainy season three hours by car. There is a bus connection once a day.

In July 2005, the US broadcaster PBS took Moses Zulu in its series "The New Heroes" .

By 2018 over 2,500 children had attended school.

partner

  • OPEC Fund for International Development
  • Global Fund for Children, USA
  • Children in Need Network (CHIN)
  • FAWEZA (Forum for African Women Educationalists of Zambia)
  • Zambia Red Cross Society
  • Ministry of Community Development & Social Services, Zambia
  • Ministry of Education, Zambia
  • Ministry of Sports, Youth and Child Development, Zambia
  • Planet Aid Canada and USA
  • Humana organizations in Zambia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Norway and Spain
  • Africare

Further HUMANA schools for former street children

Web links

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  • Brandy Blackman: Intervening in the Lives of Street Children. A Case from Zambia (Eng .: "Interventions in the lives of street children. A case from Zambia"). May 2001. 45 pages with extensive bibliography. About Children's Town Malambanyama especially from p. 30 ( 247 kB) / Brandy%20Blackman%20paper.pdf PDF, English ).
  • Directory of Street Children in Africa [1] (English)
  • African News Bulletin No. 392 on Children's Town Malambanyama [2] (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Children's Town. In: www.dappzambia.org. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Moses Zulu. In: www.pbs.org. 2005, archived from the original on April 16, 2015 ; accessed on March 13, 2020 (PBS “The New Heroes” 2005 / VII).
  3. ^ Street Children's School - Benguela, Angola. In: www.humana.org. Archived from the original on September 14, 2009 .;
  4. ^ Street Children School, Luanda, Angola. In: www.humana.org. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 12, 2020 (English).
  5. ^ Children's Town in Caxito, Angola. In: www.humana.org. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 12, 2020 (English).
  6. ^ Street Children School, Chimoio, Mozambique. In: www.humana.org. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 12, 2020 .
  7. ^ Children's Town, Mozambique. In: www.humana.org. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on March 13, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ Vocational School: Ponesai Vanhu Techincal College. In: dapp-zimbabwe.org. Accessed March 7, 2020 (English).