Obviously a wondrously effective organisation. Small, but exquisite in every detail”
Bill Oddie, OBE – Birdwatcher, natural history presenter and High Five Club Patron
Tag: Africa
0 Gifted Student Sponsorship, Malawi & Zambia
We were thrilled this year to be supporting the continued secondary education of 2 young people in Malawi. In Zambia we also sponsored a community wildlife scout to undergo 3-months formal training, a young man to begin teacher training and one of our previous students to attend his graduation ceremony. They have all done brilliantly 🙂
0 Conservation Football Tournament, Zambia
We would like to bring you exciting news of a new football tournament that High Five Club has launched in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley.
It is being used to successfully sensitise disengaged male youth re wildlife conservation and important health issues, along with the wider community in this important wildlife area.
It has been such a success that we are planning to expand this initiative further in 2016, so do watch this space!!
We hope you enjoy reading the project update attached. Such a simple, yet effective initiative.
0 Teachers’ Houses in Uganda
In recognition of the dedication and commitment of teachers at the ABATO School in Mpigi District in providing a quality education for the vulnerable children at this school, we have over the summer supported ABATO to construct 5 teacher’s houses within the grounds of the school. Each house has a bedroom and a living space, with cooking taking place in an outside communal kitchen area.
For more details read here.
0 Gifted Pupil Sponsorship, Zambia
We have partnered with Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust to fund gifted, yet vulnerable, children through secondary school in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley.
For more information Gifted Pupil Sponsorship, Zambia.
0 School Desks Provision, Uganda
High Five Club has partnered with ABATO Uganda to supply 40 x 3-seater desks and benches for the community-run Galilee School. Previously all 120 learners were taught sat on the ground. This small intervention has greatly improved the learning environment at this rural school.
For more information School Desks Provision, Uganda.
0 Soccer Academy, Uganda
We are thrilled to have funded our first Development through Soccer project in rural Uganda. Take a look at this inspiring video to see the ABATO Soccer Academy being constructed, with big smiles all round! Soccer in Africa is such a great way of mobilising vulverable children and through their love of football bring about their growth and development. You can read all about the project here ABATO Soccer Academy 2014. ABATO is our long-term community partner in Uganda and is doing amazing work uplifting vunerable children there. See www.abato.org0 Launch of Breakfast Club at Malimba Community School in Zambia
This month the High Five Club has joined hands with Eastbourne College in East Sussex to launch a pioneering “Breakfast Club” at Malimba Community School in Zambia, providing pupils with a nutritious porridge cooked by volunteers from the community each school day.
Malimba Basic School is a rural school in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley. There is much poverty in this community and the children often go to school hungry, or miss school altogether to look for food or because they are too hungry to walk, for some up to 5km, to walk there.
The idea of a sponsored feeding programme at Malimba Community School is as simple as it is effective – full bellies mean fuller classrooms and improved learning.
The availability of one decent meal a day for these children will mean that attendance levels will soar – children will no longer need to miss classes to go out and search for food. The boost to daily nutritional levels that such a feeding programme will provide means that the basic health of the children should improve dramatically, thus helping them to fight off the malaria and other diseases and infections they can so easily fall prey to. Many have been HIV positive since birth.
There are 408 children at Malimba Community School, ranging from nursery class up to Grade 7 (last year of primary school). Through the support of Eastbourne College (£1,200) and a month’s membership fees from High Five Club members (£600) we are now able to fund a Breakfast Club for one full year for the 244 youngest children at this school (nursery class and Grades 1 – 4). The community is very grateful for this support, and understands that at present we cannot provide breakfast for every child at the school. We have made a good start, and hopefully with the further support of pupils at Eastbourne College we will soon be able to extend this programme to the remaining 164 children, along with being able to sustain this programme over many years to come. At just £7.38 per child per year, this really is a life changing initiative!
Eastbourne College encourages pupils to reflect on their good fortune and consider, as an integral part of their wider education, the needs of those less fortunate than themselves. There are various opportunities for students to donate to charitable causes including mufti days and dedicated Charity Days, when a charity lunch of soup, a roll and fruit is offered and the catering department donates the money saved to ECHO (Eastbourne College Help Overseas).
ECHO is the College’s millennium charity set up by a group of dedicated staff members to enhance the lives of others within the global community. We are very grateful to ECHO and the pupils at Eastbourne College for their adoption of the Breakfast Club at Malimba Community School.
0 Merry Christmas 2013 to High Five Club
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0 High Five Club Movie Clip – Issues facing rural communities in Africa
This short movie clip features some of the rural communities we as the High Five Club are working with in Africa and the issues they face.
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