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TOP LEFT: OLD TOILET BLOCK, CHITULIKA HIGH SCHOOL
TOP RIGHT: NEW TOILET BLOCK FOR CHITULIKA HIGH
SCHOOL STAFF
Scotch’s continuing partnership
with World Vision in Zambia
Our will to address the injustice of poverty is still very much needed.
ABOVE LEFT: OLD TOILET BLOCK FOR OVER 1000 TEENAGERS. MIDDLE: NEW TOILET BLOCK FOR MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS. RIGHT: CUBICLES FOR STUDENTS. BOTTOM RIGHT: HAND WASH
STATIONS WITH TANK WATER SUPPLY
World Vision and Scotch have worked
together to improve education standards in
Zambia since 2005. The concept of a well-
resourced Australian school giving hope to
children, and hence families, of desperately
underdeveloped schools has inspired the Scotch
community since that time. Leaders from within
the student population — parents, teachers and
Old Boys — have championed the causes.
In 2016, the Scotch community came
together to raise more than $100,000 to help
build an ablutions block for the high school
in Chitulika. This has transformed the school,
particularly for the girls. The school of over 1000
students and 47 staff was struggling to cope with
only two drop toilets that didn’t have enclosed
structures; now they have 19 cubicles, nine for
boys and 10 for girls, a septic tank and a soak-
away. The Principal of Chitulika High School has
said that ‘we can’t thank you enough for your
kindness’, and that the school ‘wants to pass on
our thanks to all the people that contributed’.
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World Vision has now asked for Scotch’s help
in improving the education standards in Zambia
by contributing to increasing the literacy levels for
children in the small village of Chipapa. Children
in this village have class sizes of around 75
students, and are trying to learn to read without
the necessary age appropriate reading materials.
Back home, my daughter is in Year 2. She
gets to read aloud with an adult one-on-one and
has three readers coming home every week. Is it
any wonder that less than 40 per cent of children
in Chipapa finish primary school? If you struggle
to read, everything is harder.
This year, Scotch boys are taking the World
Vision 40 Hour Challenge (also known as the 40
Hour Famine). Our aim is to raise $20,000 for
producing literacy resources and teacher training
in Zambia.
Readers with a passion for education, a
desire for a more equitable world, and empathy
for the students of Chipapa are asked to
consider how they might help. A small group
of creative people could make a considerable
contribution; many such groups could see the
target met with ease.
Tax deductible contributions can be made to
the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge:
Cheques can be sent to: Chipapa Appeal, c/o
Renee Hill, Scotch College, 1 Morrison Street,
Hawthorn Vic 3122.
RENEE HILL –
TIC, WORLD VISION IMMERSION
PHOTOS: WORLD VISION AUSTRALIA
Great Scot Number 154 – September 2018