The Living Hope Foundation
Tax deductible
The rainy season is approaching in the remote Zambian rural village of Kalindi and the villagers are struggling to find the funds to roof the school they have been building on their own without government assistance. In the last year, village volunteers made and burnt over 72 loads of bricks, transported five huge loads of river sand, and three loads of stones for footings and built the outside walls for the initial two classrooms in their spare time. Now they are short $4,000 to put on a roof and another $2,000 to paint and install doors and windows. And the rains are coming.
Fortunately, Zambian non-profit The Living Hope Foundation (www.lihof.org), led by its dedicated and resourceful leader Geoffrey Kamutande, stepped in to meet the need. It acquired 20 hectares of land from the village elders for the school. The first accomplishment was to provide instruction in a thatched hut (above). This is better than nothing, but not much. There is only a little protection during inclement weather, and students are less inclined to travel long distances to a school with such poor facilities. Living Hope plans two building blocks. One with two classrooms to be finished this year if funds can be obtained for the roofing, paint, doors and windows, and another with three classrooms to be built later. Living Hope has been able to procure cement and steel masonry reinforcing rods for the villagers, but can’t cover the costs of finishing the school before the rains come.
The U.S, organization sponsoring this appeal, Communities Without Borders (CWB) (www.communitieswithoutborders.org) learned of the roofing needs from Geoffrey when assisting Living Hope’s school in the Lusaka, Zambia’s capitol. He is seen above in the middle with volunteers on the day last spring they celebrated finishing the first trench for the school’s foundation. Please give them and the other members of the village school committee a hand and give Kalindi’s kids a school with a roof over it before the rains start in October. In Geoffrey’s words: “kindly leave a contribution to this noble cause.”
Fortunately, Zambian non-profit The Living Hope Foundation (www.lihof.org), led by its dedicated and resourceful leader Geoffrey Kamutande, stepped in to meet the need. It acquired 20 hectares of land from the village elders for the school. The first accomplishment was to provide instruction in a thatched hut (above). This is better than nothing, but not much. There is only a little protection during inclement weather, and students are less inclined to travel long distances to a school with such poor facilities. Living Hope plans two building blocks. One with two classrooms to be finished this year if funds can be obtained for the roofing, paint, doors and windows, and another with three classrooms to be built later. Living Hope has been able to procure cement and steel masonry reinforcing rods for the villagers, but can’t cover the costs of finishing the school before the rains come.
The U.S, organization sponsoring this appeal, Communities Without Borders (CWB) (www.communitieswithoutborders.org) learned of the roofing needs from Geoffrey when assisting Living Hope’s school in the Lusaka, Zambia’s capitol. He is seen above in the middle with volunteers on the day last spring they celebrated finishing the first trench for the school’s foundation. Please give them and the other members of the village school committee a hand and give Kalindi’s kids a school with a roof over it before the rains start in October. In Geoffrey’s words: “kindly leave a contribution to this noble cause.”
Organizer
Fabienne Duverseau
Organizer
Newton, MA
Communities Without Borders A Nonprofit Corporation (Communities Without Borders)
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
