Kondanani Zambia Inc

26/12/2022

Latest Kondanani Zambia newsletter:
https://kondanani.files.wordpress.com/2022/11/email-kz-newsletter-dec-2022.pdf?force_download=true

07/12/2021

We are very glad to be featured in the latest UCA Victas Crosslight magazine for our 25th anniversary of working in Zambia: https://crosslight.org.au

26/09/2021

Kondanani Zambia September 2021 Newsletter

29/11/2020

https://kondananizambia.org/2020/11/26/new-pre-school-to-be-built-at-kalumbila/?fbclid=IwAR0Gi8uBoIlELqXTYGh4X6unZ7VFirnVw9sPQalv5w9pYbozzB9B9YpZ7S0

Kondanani Zambia is excited to share the news that a pre-school is to be built at Kalumbila, in North-West Zambia, 150 kilometres west of Solewezi, managed and supervised by our valued partners, Za…

18/08/2020

Kondanani Zambia August 2020 Newsletter

05/08/2020

It is with grieving hearts we are sad to inform you of the passing of our very dear friend Mrs. Harriet Sianjibu-Miyato in Lusaka last night, Tuesday 4th August.

Harriet has been our inspiration and mentor since we first met in 1992 in Melbourne where she was an AusAid scholarship student at Deakin studying a Masters in Health Education. Harriet has been the reason we have visited Zambia so many times since our first trip to visit with Harriet in 1996, to work and learn from Harriet about the rights of the child to education.

We know that education is the vaccine for Africa, and our small charity KondananiZambia has the Mission Statement: (first written by our dear friend Rev Prof Michael Kelly SJ) to ensure that every child can actualise their full potential, realise their human rights and experience what it means to be a human being fully alive.

Harriet’s role as an AusAid alumni - indeed the most senior in Zambia, has seen her head Zambia Open Community Schools, whose work is to be provide education for out-of-school children all over Zambia, and recently as Chairperson of ZANEC, Zambia National Education Coalition, promoting quality education for every Zambian.

You can visit: AUSTRALIAN BY DEGREE: HARRIET SIANJIBU MIYATO ZAMBIA and experience her passionate love for the out-of-school children of her country. Harriet is mourned by her daughters Mwaka and Yvonne, her grandchildren Nathan, Mwika & Munji, and Harriet Monkombwe, by the Preston family, and the many supporters of Kondanani Zambia Inc.

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19/03/2020

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25/02/2020

Feminine Hygiene Grant from Sammy Stamp

Every Thursday amazingly regular volunteers gather in the Uniting Church lower hall where they sort and cut used stamps. Many UCA congregations have groups who collect stamped envelopes and get them to the Sammy Stamp group. Rob told John P that the Executive were getting ready to distribute the funds raised from 2019: we formulated an application for monies to purchase the appropriate cloths, studs, plastic liners and underpants in Zambia to make sustainable kits, and were rewarded with a Grant.

Many girls in Zambia miss school once a month due to no access, or money, to purchase feminine hygiene products.

Hundreds of reusable feminine hygiene kits will be made at CHODORT United Church of Zambia Training College, Choma, southern Zambia, by dressmaking students. The kits will be distributed by ZAMBIA OPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS Field Workers, who will give pertinent education sessions on Feminine hygiene to the girl students. A wonderful gift by Uniting Church in Australia Sammy Stamp volunteers.

14/02/2020

Five years ago, when he was in Prep, Joshua heard about the vulnerable children in Zambia when Jenny & John spoke at his school. Their Library Teacher Trish had met J & J, when we were collecting retrenched library books to send in our container shipments (which we don’t do now). Josh told his mother he’d like to give many of his soft toys to the children, and we were able to facilitate that, along with many solar powered lights which the school families combined to give to KZ.

Josh hasn’t forgotten the children; Josh has been busking for funds each Christmas for three years, mostly with his violin. This year he’s aware that drought is stalking much of sub-Saharan Africa, so he has been busking in two venues over the holidays: at Safety Beach, and in East Kew. Josh now plays the euphonium. Josh has raised a very big sum, which he presented to Jenny and John yesterday. Everyone on KZ Board is just amazed at the faithfulness and love which Josh has for the children of Zambia. Zambia Open Community Schools (ZOCS) distributes food monies to needy villages, and food, often vitamin enriched nshima encourages households to send their children to school (nshima looks rather like mashed potato and is a staple food in Zambia).

KondananiZambia with the help of our wonderfully supportive donors forwarded a goodly sum for food aid early in December 2019!

05/12/2019

Latest newsletter with report of Mark and Iris August monitoring visit. Gift cards available now for Christmas.

17/08/2019

Engineers Without Borders USA Engineers Without Borders Canada I wonder whether you have some good ideas for designing a school desk that could be manufactured locally in Zambia? The kids have been improvising using bricks, but with 50 in a class it gets difficult!