Working full-time in the past years had
often prevented me from visiting Zambia for more than a couple of days. At the
same time, the work iChange does had inspired me in 2018 to begin a Masters
study course at the University of Edinburgh in International Development. I had
done so not necessarily with the intention of a career change, but with the
desire for increased learning and understanding of issues of local development
in education, especially the community school sector.
After finishing the first floor of the new classroom building at the Mackenzie Community School (MCS) in 2017, this year we focused on the completion of the still missing second level. Thanks to this project the school now has two additional classrooms, a necessary prerequisite for expanding to 6th grade at the beginning of 2020.
In August I was lucky enough to accompany a re Charitable team deep into the Copperbelt of Ndola/Zambia to work with one of their partners, iChange, at a community school project. It was my first-time visiting a developing country in Africa so I was excited and eager to see how the...
I was so lucky to be able to retire at the age of 62 and to be healthy as well as fit. After many years of teaching, I wanted to make use of my time to do voluntary work. Therefore, I decided to go to Zambia for five weeks. Months before, I was thinking about how I could be best useful there.
Front and center in 2017 was the expansion of the Mackenzie Community School (MCS) building. For multiple months, members of iChange were on location to plan, coordinate and support the construction activities. Thanks to the tireless work and commitment of the local team this phase of...
