Myra

Hi, I am Myra (David’s wife). The above ‘photo was taken at a hotel in Hong Kong last year on our way to Australia where we had a tremendous holiday visiting friends in Tasmania and Norfolk Island, South Pacific. That was a busy holiday in the sense that we were sightseeing and travelling.

The Zambian trip will, we hope, be just as exciting but in a very different way. Hard work but satisfying in seeing improvements within the school.

My background is in banking and my hobbies are curling and skiing in the winter. I enjoy sewing, dancing, gardening. Now that my two children have their own cars I am no longer “Mum’s Taxi”. Leigh and Murray live in Edinburgh so we see them a lot.

I am looking forward to the challenge in March 2009.

David

I am Davidl. I took early retirement from Bank of Scotland in October 2005 after 36 years service. I am married to Myra and we have two grown up children Leigh & Murray who have now left the family home and are making their own way in life leaving Myra & I to pursue other interests.

Whilst I have no fears as such for our forthcoming trip to Chipembi I do hope we, as a group, achieve all we set out to do for the school and that we and the school see tangible improvements from our visit.

Personally I am looking forward to the experience of making new friends and learning more of the culture of an area of the world where I have never visited before.

Date and Time of the Next Meeting

The next team meeting will be held on Sunday 11th Jan 2009 at 12.30pm

(With Issy, Myra and Joyce providing food)

Water Tank Frame Under Construction

Water Tank and Frame Materials

Ongoing Borehole Work at Chipembi

Dear All,

On the water project front, the Engineers are on site with the materials required for the water tanks. They have supplied two tanks and each has a capacity of 5000 litres, thus, giving a total capacity of 10,000 litres.

Pass my regards to all at SLPC.

Warm Regards,

Albert

Computer Team Update

Here is an update on the Chipembi Computer Project 2009 Following discussions with the school, we have identified some key areas where the computer lab needs to be upgraded. From these discussions we have now set ourselves some objectives, which are given below.

The school have 35 Computers at the moment but we understand that only 12 of these are working. Saying these are working, we won’t know until we get there to what extent these are functional. It may be that we can salvage some of the other 23 if time permits. The lack of a constant power supply, we think, may be a reason that some of these machines have failed in the past but hopefully we can sort that. By providing 10 new machines we can network these and add up to date software properly licensed to the school.

We plan to do some “Housekeeping”!! - tidy up cabling, provide decent desks and chairs, provide good window coverings to ensure computer screens can be read and on the computers themselves provide a level of security (currently lacking) enabling teachers and pupils to log-on to their own areas of the system. All supported by specific training materials.

We may be able to add additional tasks to the list depending on budget availability.

Our key objectives are follows:

1. Provide 10 new PCs and load educational software

2. Provide power resilience against outages and ensuring that any data or power cabling is properly fixed and/or concealed.

3. Provide desks and chairs.

4. Provide window covering.


The Computer Team

VEEP INVITES HUMAN RIGHTS BODY

VICE-PRESIDENT George Kunda has invited human rights organisations to work with the Ministry of Justice to formulate the Human Rights Act to strengthen human rights enjoyment in Zambia.Mr Kunda said the Human Rights Commission (HRC) and other civil society organisations should work with the Government to make proposals that would lead to the enactment of the Human Rights Act.Mr Kunda said at a symposium held in commemoration of Human Rights Day and 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) at Alliance Francaise in Lusaka yesterday that the new legislation would help address some contentious issues relating to human rights.

More : http://www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=4&id=1228983009

From the Times of Zambia, 11th December 2008