The Aims and Strategy of the Partnership

The partnership has looked at issues that affect the school.

For example, the climate determines what can be done on the land, and the produce and animals which can successfully be kept. The shortage of water imposes a serious constraint on the use towhich the land could be put; and this led to a project to develop a borehole which is now operational.

The issue of sex education has led to consideration of how teachers can talk to pupils about the problem, and about how men and women can talk to each other about this issue. The school has engaged in the UN ‘Keep the Promise’ campaign. Of the letters sent in from schools to the UN on this issue, one, from a pupil in Chipembi, was chosen as the prize letter and was used in the UN publicity with the result that the UN has now paid for her entire education including university.

A current project is in collaboration with Rotary International to install a much needed water borehole within the school grounds.