12k a Day for Nayamba

12k a Day for Nayamba!

In 2010, the owners of the Nagwaza Farm in the Chisamba district of Zambia founded Nayamba School. Their aim was to educate the children of families working on all the surrounding farms because there was no affordable school close enough nearby. This wonderful free school now educates more than 350 children from the local area.

Today, Nayamba School is supported by The Nayamba Trust, a charity built around a thriving educational community and supported by the Nagwaza Farm, trustees and volunteers in Zambia, the UK and beyond. 

Initially designed for primary-aged pupils and consisting of three classrooms and a small office, today we provide a pre-school, 10 classrooms for Years 1 to 9 and a sustainable Trade Centre for apprentices to learn a trade once they leave Nayamba School. Over the years, we have also built 12 houses for teachers to live on site. 

The Nayamba Trust works closely with the school to develop good educational practice by supporting teacher training and development, and providing basics such as textbooks, electricity, hot meals and snacks. But we still need to do more!

Some Children at Nayamba walk two hours and 30 minutes to school, covering 12km every single day. They're leaving home in the dark at 5:10 each day, only 13 years old and in grade 6.

That's why prefects from Darwin and Turner are taking a week to run 12k before school each day to raise awareness of the situation of our friends in Chisamba and raise a little bit of money as well.

Just £1.40 can pay for 20 hot meals at Nayamba school. That's enough for 1 child for 1 month. A little bit of maths means £700 can provide 10,000 meals, or a year of food for 40 kids. Please donate!