JAPAN yesterday gave hope to the people of Mahopo in Lusaka when it handed over a block of three classrooms to the community.
The facility was built at a cost of US$90,000 in an effort to increased literacy levels and addresses the high cases of early pregnancies in the impoverished community.
The project was funded by the government of Japan and was handed over to the Civic Forum on Housing and Habitat in Zambia (CFHH).
Japanese Ambassador to Zambia Kiyoshi Koinuma said the project was expected to benefit about 200 children.
“This project was funded under the grant assistance for grassroots human security projects programme of the government of Japan. The grant for this project amounted to US$90,051. Mahopo community, which has about 5,200 residents, has been in existence for over 50 years but was only regularised as a legal area in 2013.
“This, therefore, means that basic facilitates and systems such as health, education, sanitation, among others as well as adequate housing have not yet been met in this community,” Mr Kiyoshi said at the handover recently.
He said the school will contribute to the development of the community and subsequently to the development of Zambia.
And Kabwata member of Parliament Given Lubinda called on the community to take care of the facility so that it benefits generations to come.
Mr Lubinda said the school should be protected so that it helps prevent early marriages and alcohol abuse by youths.
At the same occasion, CFHH executive director Grace Mtonga thanked Mr Lubinda and community leaders for their determination to see development come to their area.
She said CFHH focuses on building the capacities of grassroots organisations using a multi-faced approach.
And Ministry of General Education Minister John Phiri said Government is determined to champion the NGO’s cause and that it supports community schools by providing them with teachers where possible, teaching and learning materials.
Mr Phiri said in a speech read for him by the ministry’s chief education officer Joseph Ngoma that the school will contribute to the improvement of literacy levels of close to 600 school-going children aged six to 10 years.
Zambia always recieving gifts, ngaimwe mukapelako abanenu lisa?
You are for gating our gifts to malawi- fuel and Zim meal meal about 18mths ago
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You may already know the Japanese word arigato (ah-ree-gah-tohh; thanks), but did you know that you can use it only with family, friends, co-workers, subordinates, or strangers who look easy-going and younger than you? When talking to teachers, bosses, strangers who look older than you, and strangers who look as if they’re not so easy-going, don’t say arigato to mean thank you, say one of the following:
Arigato gozaimasu. (ah-ree-gah-tohh-goh-zah-ee-mah-soo)
Domo arigato gozaimasu. (dohh-moh ah-ree-gah-tohh goh-zah-ee-mah-soo)
Domo. (dohh-moh)
The easiest phrase of gratitude is domo — an adverb that literally means indeed or very much but can be understood as thank you. It’s a short, convenient, and yet polite phrase of gratitude that can be used in any context. If you want to express a greater-than-normal degree of gratitude, you can use one of the longer, more fully-spelled-out phrases, like Arigato gozaimasu or Domo arigato gozaimasu.
30 years on still depending on hand out whilst the govt is wasting funds on bloated cabinet….no shame at all!!
Lucky Japan project managed the built otherwise if it was PF we could have had a $300,000 bill, using the same accounting PF system that makes roads built in Zambia the most expensive in the world.
Many more schools could be built with the money wasted on other projects that are not priority. Surely you always have to wait for other people to do it for you
It just shows how uncaring pf is…
Wake up people of zambia!!
More like how uncaring progressive Zambian governments have been.
Meant to say successive Zambian governments hahahahaha.