Holy Spirit Preparatory School

Project Zambia

	PROJECT ZAMBIA REACHES ITS GOAL! Congratulations to the entire HSPS Community and especially the Project Zambia leaders and volunteers on reaching their goal of raising $46,250 in just two short years!! This amazing effort was achieved by raising one dollar at a time. Biscuits, smoothies, bracelets, t-shirts, benefit concerts and a Bingo Night helped small change turn into a big change for the students of Minga Secondary School. Learn more about Project Zambia below.
Focus: Project Zambia is a student directed service outreach of Holy Spirit Preparatory School that seeks to provide funding to build a dormitory at the Minga Secondary School, a Catholic School in Minga, Zambia. Mission Statement: Project Zambia is an effort to engage students in expanding Holy Spirit Preparatory School’s contribution to the promotion of social justice and the fight against poverty/inequality. This effort is focused on a partnership with Minga Secondary School, a Catholic secondary school in Minga, Zambia. HSP students initially established a goal to $46,250 to fund the construction of one 100-student dormitory. In the 2007-2008 academic year, HSP school students raised $25,000. In the 2008-2009 academic year, students are seeking to raise an additional $25,000 in order to finish funding Project Zambia. The Need for the Project: This project is concentrated on promoting secondary education, as this represents the means by which we can help improve the life opportunities of the young in Zambia and provide them with the necessary skills to provide for themselves. 81% of Zambian youth do not receive any kind of secondary education. Currently, the 300 “weekly boarders” at Minga Secondary have nowhere to live. These students sleep on reed mats on the floor of unused structures (such as an old kitchen and some small mud huts). Such conditions negatively affecting the health and academic performance of most students at the school. Through Cyprian Mchotsa, the school’s headmaster, Hudson Munesanje, deputy headmaster, Sister Stella Mwanza, acting deputy head, Acklas Kausa, parent-teacher association chairperson, Penias Banda, school board member, and Tribal Chief Mumbi, we received confirmation that safe accommodations are the greatest current need of the school. Proposed investment: This project will cover the cost of construction materials, project management, labor, and furnishings for the dormitory. The people of Minga will provide labor and basic construction materials, such as bricks, sand, and cement, as their contribution to the project.
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