By Stewart Mantula | Project Leader
Education plays a pivotal role in promoting development worldwide. With an uneducated population, communities and even nations at large collapse with the masses swimming in a pool of vast poverty. The hope to escape the clutches of poverty is the factor pushing over 400 children from four remote villages of Mangwe district to walk about 20km every day to attain a basic education. These dire conditions prompted Community Foundation for the Western Region of Zimbabwe to solicit funds to support the community in constructing Mapukane Secondary School.
The following report is a narrative on the progress made in our efforts in pooling resources to support the Dukwe community in constructing a new school in the vicinity. With the aid of generous donors across the globe, this vision is slowly taking shape. During the Global Giving Accelerator in March 2017 to date, the project Build 2 Classrooms for 400 Children in Zimbabwe (#26946) has received a substantial amount totalling US$2 412,00 from 17 Donors which has been set aside for the purchase of 230 bags of cement. This means therefore that we still need to raise US$37 588, 00 as the total project cost amounts to US$40 000, 00.
Communities have continued pooling together locally available materials such as river sand, quarry stone and moulding of bricks. The Foundation has approached some embassies locally such as Japanese and Australian Small Grants Facilities and we are awaiting feedback due end of June. We are anticipating to have mobilised a substantial amount of resources by end of August to enable us to begin the project.
Mapukane Secondary School will benefit 400 children of Mangwe District in the marginalised Matabeleland South Province. The project does not end only with building a school but it is expected to gratify other faculties in the lives of these children as well as the community at large. The following are some of the outcomes expected after the construction of Mapukane secondary School:
Failure to reach the target now does not necessarily mean that the project has reached a dead end. The vision of the community can still be fulfilled with the continued support of the public. Education is fundamental as it gives young people the baseline skills to survive as adults in the near future. Construction of Mapukane school will open doors for these young people and give them a head start to life.As the late former South African President Nelson Mandela once stated, “there is no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children”, the Foundation is therefore appealing for continued support to make the lives of these children a whole lot easier.
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