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SDA pastor asks REA to electrify Chimpempe School

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A clergyman in Kawambwa district has appealed to the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) to consider electrifying Chimpempe Mission High School in the area in order to improve education among the pupils at the institution.

Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church Kalungwishi Mission District Pastor, Johnson Maluba made the appeal to ZANIS in Kawambwa yesterday.

Pastor Maluba, who is also school chaplain, said Chimpempe was accommodating hundreds of pupils that include those that come from all over the country hence the need to electrify it.

He said lack of electricity at the institution is also contributing to the pupils’ poor performance as they were most of the time not able to study at night.

He complained that sometimes pupils use candles in order for them to study at night, adding that this was costly for the parents.

Pastor Maluba said in 2007, Zesco visited the school with a view to measure the distance between the Tea Estate Sub – Power station and Chimpempe school but said nothing has been done up to now.

He wondered why schools such as Chembe and Chipili High Schools in Luapula Province have been electrified while his has been left out.

The Pastor lamented that some highly qualified teachers were shunning the school because there was no power at the institution.

He said even the teachers that were teaching there were just sacrificing, adding that they were relying on their own solar panels.

ZANIS

5 COMMENTS

  1. This is what we like to hear, how do you expect the students to study in the dark, ?, this is such a shamefull thing. What is the resaon for not having elctricity while the others have, this is not fair for the students.

  2. Am surprised this school hasv no electricity. This place which gives the SDA’s name CHIMPEMPE in Luapula has been there even before St Clements. I will comment more once I find out why this is so.

  3. This “Pastor Maluba, who is also school chaplain, said Chimpempe was accommodating hundreds of pupils that include those that come from all over the country hence the need to electrify it…. He wondered why schools such as Chembe and Chipili High Schools in Luapula Province have been electrified while his has been left out” is what is expected of a man of God instead of campaigning for Poor Finishers on a church’s radio station.

    I hope the GRZ will look into this issue seriously. I am also inviting other people wil possible working alternative systems to provide electricity to the said school.

    In all. great work SDA church for that mission in Luapula Province.

  4. please help us,it is not easy to study using faint lights, which will eventually lead to eye blindness.i was once a pupil at chimpempe secondary school.

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