African Community Project

Supplying blackboards to the community schools of rural Zambia has become one of our main programs in African Community Project. We manufacture these blackboards from material we have bought in Lusaka. The blackboards are then painted in the district and distributed to the schools that are in our Community Forest program. Each school usually receives two blackboards: one for each classroom and in some cases one for each end of the one classroom or church where school is held. Each class can have as many as 50 children attending. These blackboards usually replace dilapidated ones made from scraps of lumber, worn out blackboard or just smooth mud walls. Over 100 hundred new boards have been delivered in the last 3 years.

COST: $100 USD

Cheuka Community School 2008

Garry Brooks and a typical blackboard

PTA Chairman in front of a old board at Cheuka
Community School

Chief Nyhampande (centre) at Chingolo Community
School in 2007

Delivering blackboards to Chingolo Community School

Two teachers and kids at Nkhota Community School, 2007

Joe our driver having a go at painting a blackboard, Petauke, 2007

Felix and teacher at Chisoyo Community School, 2007