Kondanani Zambia Inc in Canterbury, Victoria | Non-profit organisation

Kondanani Zambia Inc

Locality: Canterbury, Victoria

Phone: +61 419 585 987

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25.01.2022 And the water starts flowing at Mabanga’s new water point coming from 100m down. Water is incredibly important to everyone especially in this world of climate change. The drought in Southern Zambia is quite severe and we probably won’t see the full impact until later in the year when food stocks run low.

24.01.2022 Feminine Hygiene Grant from Sammy Stamp Every Thursday amazingly regular volunteers gather in the Uniting Church lower hall where they sort and cut used stamps. Many UCA congregations have groups who collect stamped envelopes and get them to the Sammy Stamp group. Rob told John P that the Executive were getting ready to distribute the funds raised from 2019: we formulated an application for monies to purchase the appropriate cloths, studs, plastic liners and underpants in Zam...bia to make sustainable kits, and were rewarded with a Grant. Many girls in Zambia miss school once a month due to no access, or money, to purchase feminine hygiene products. Hundreds of reusable feminine hygiene kits will be made at CHODORT United Church of Zambia Training College, Choma, southern Zambia, by dressmaking students. The kits will be distributed by ZAMBIA OPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS Field Workers, who will give pertinent education sessions on Feminine hygiene to the girl students. A wonderful gift by Uniting Church in Australia Sammy Stamp volunteers.

24.01.2022 We are very glad to be featured in the latest UCA Victas Crosslight magazine for our 25th anniversary of working in Zambia: https://crosslight.org.au

22.01.2022 Engineers Without Borders USA Engineers Without Borders Canada I wonder whether you have some good ideas for designing a school desk that could be manufactured locally in Zambia? The kids have been improvising using bricks, but with 50 in a class it gets difficult!

19.01.2022 Medical practitioners from The Royal Australasian College of Physicians are urging the government to release people from detention to prevent an outbreak and fu...rther waves of COVID19 cases in Australia. Join them in pressuring the Health Minister to release people to appropriate housing so they can protect themselves and survive COVID19. Act now https://bit.ly/34SaA30

15.01.2022 Five years ago, when he was in Prep, Joshua heard about the vulnerable children in Zambia when Jenny & John spoke at his school. Their Library Teacher Trish had met J & J, when we were collecting retrenched library books to send in our container shipments (which we don’t do now). Josh told his mother he’d like to give many of his soft toys to the children, and we were able to facilitate that, along with many solar powered lights which the school families combined to give to K...Z. Josh hasn’t forgotten the children; Josh has been busking for funds each Christmas for three years, mostly with his violin. This year he’s aware that drought is stalking much of sub-Saharan Africa, so he has been busking in two venues over the holidays: at Safety Beach, and in East Kew. Josh now plays the euphonium. Josh has raised a very big sum, which he presented to Jenny and John yesterday. Everyone on KZ Board is just amazed at the faithfulness and love which Josh has for the children of Zambia. Zambia Open Community Schools (ZOCS) distributes food monies to needy villages, and food, often vitamin enriched nshima encourages households to send their children to school (nshima looks rather like mashed potato and is a staple food in Zambia). KondananiZambia with the help of our wonderfully supportive donors forwarded a goodly sum for food aid early in December 2019!

14.01.2022 It is with grieving hearts we are sad to inform you of the passing of our very dear friend Mrs. Harriet Sianjibu-Miyato in Lusaka last night, Tuesday 4th August. Harriet has been our inspiration and mentor since we first met in 1992 in Melbourne where she was an AusAid scholarship student at Deakin studying a Masters in Health Education. Harriet has been the reason we have visited Zambia so many times since our first trip to visit with Harriet in 1996, to work and learn from ...Harriet about the rights of the child to education. We know that education is the vaccine for Africa, and our small charity KondananiZambia has the Mission Statement: (first written by our dear friend Rev Prof Michael Kelly SJ) to ensure that every child can actualise their full potential, realise their human rights and experience what it means to be a human being fully alive. Harriet’s role as an AusAid alumni - indeed the most senior in Zambia, has seen her head Zambia Open Community Schools, whose work is to be provide education for out-of-school children all over Zambia, and recently as Chairperson of ZANEC, Zambia National Education Coalition, promoting quality education for every Zambian. You can visit: AUSTRALIAN BY DEGREE: HARRIET SIANJIBU MIYATO ZAMBIA and experience her passionate love for the out-of-school children of her country. Harriet is mourned by her daughters Mwaka and Yvonne, her grandchildren Nathan, Mwika & Munji, and Harriet Monkombwe, by the Preston family, and the many supporters of Kondanani Zambia Inc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POd6BHCfiI

14.01.2022 Kondanani Zambia September 2021 Newsletter

11.01.2022 The next visit today was to Gamela Community School with Zambia Open Community Schools and Mark Preston to see how things are going with the teachers house we opened with the mayor of Choma, Simoloka Javen two years ago. We were pleased to see the new head teacher making good progress with the the new buildings and the growth of the student population. The drought is taking its toll at the moment but the school is lucky to have a water point to keep limited water flowing to... the community. But as always there is more to do, but with the support of the community, ZOCS and partners we will look to the future.

09.01.2022 We visited the Mungale school this week with Zambia Open Community Schools to see the great progress of the schools vegetable garden where volunteers of the school parents association donate time to keep the garden tendered which then provides a feeding programme at school which encourages attendance in these times of drought.

09.01.2022 Today saw us visit the community school of Kaanga which was introduced to Mark Preston and @Isabel Fernandes at @Kondanani Zambia with Zambia Open Community Schools to see the progress on the new school rooms which everyone hopes will be ready before the rainy season! You can see the current classroom where the kids sit on rocks and the classroom door doubles as a blackboard! That’s commitment to learning! There are up to 50 children squeezing into learn.

07.01.2022 Today we went to see the new water point in Mabanga with Mark Preston which we worked on with Zambia Open Community Schools to provide a base for the community. With the drought this season water is an all important resource and the Head teacher at the community school is already planning to teach children to plant vegetables in the newly formed school garden.

04.01.2022 Latest newsletter with report of Mark and Iris August monitoring visit. Gift cards available now for Christmas.

01.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/525109254297746/videos/207920617155213/

25.12.2021 https://kondananizambia.org//new-pre-school-to-be-built-/

13.12.2021 Kondanani Zambia August 2020 Newsletter

07.12.2021 It is with grieving hearts we are sad to inform you of the passing of our very dear friend Mrs. Harriet Sianjibu-Miyato in Lusaka last night, Tuesday 4th August. Harriet has been our inspiration and mentor since we first met in 1992 in Melbourne where she was an AusAid scholarship student at Deakin studying a Masters in Health Education. Harriet has been the reason we have visited Zambia so many times since our first trip to visit with Harriet in 1996, to work and learn from ...Harriet about the rights of the child to education. We know that education is the vaccine for Africa, and our small charity KondananiZambia has the Mission Statement: (first written by our dear friend Rev Prof Michael Kelly SJ) to ensure that every child can actualise their full potential, realise their human rights and experience what it means to be a human being fully alive. Harriet’s role as an AusAid alumni - indeed the most senior in Zambia, has seen her head Zambia Open Community Schools, whose work is to be provide education for out-of-school children all over Zambia, and recently as Chairperson of ZANEC, Zambia National Education Coalition, promoting quality education for every Zambian. You can visit: AUSTRALIAN BY DEGREE: HARRIET SIANJIBU MIYATO ZAMBIA and experience her passionate love for the out-of-school children of her country. Harriet is mourned by her daughters Mwaka and Yvonne, her grandchildren Nathan, Mwika & Munji, and Harriet Monkombwe, by the Preston family, and the many supporters of Kondanani Zambia Inc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POd6BHCfiI

06.11.2021 Feminine Hygiene Grant from Sammy Stamp Every Thursday amazingly regular volunteers gather in the Uniting Church lower hall where they sort and cut used stamps. Many UCA congregations have groups who collect stamped envelopes and get them to the Sammy Stamp group. Rob told John P that the Executive were getting ready to distribute the funds raised from 2019: we formulated an application for monies to purchase the appropriate cloths, studs, plastic liners and underpants in Zam...bia to make sustainable kits, and were rewarded with a Grant. Many girls in Zambia miss school once a month due to no access, or money, to purchase feminine hygiene products. Hundreds of reusable feminine hygiene kits will be made at CHODORT United Church of Zambia Training College, Choma, southern Zambia, by dressmaking students. The kits will be distributed by ZAMBIA OPEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS Field Workers, who will give pertinent education sessions on Feminine hygiene to the girl students. A wonderful gift by Uniting Church in Australia Sammy Stamp volunteers.

22.10.2021 Five years ago, when he was in Prep, Joshua heard about the vulnerable children in Zambia when Jenny & John spoke at his school. Their Library Teacher Trish had met J & J, when we were collecting retrenched library books to send in our container shipments (which we don’t do now). Josh told his mother he’d like to give many of his soft toys to the children, and we were able to facilitate that, along with many solar powered lights which the school families combined to give to K...Z. Josh hasn’t forgotten the children; Josh has been busking for funds each Christmas for three years, mostly with his violin. This year he’s aware that drought is stalking much of sub-Saharan Africa, so he has been busking in two venues over the holidays: at Safety Beach, and in East Kew. Josh now plays the euphonium. Josh has raised a very big sum, which he presented to Jenny and John yesterday. Everyone on KZ Board is just amazed at the faithfulness and love which Josh has for the children of Zambia. Zambia Open Community Schools (ZOCS) distributes food monies to needy villages, and food, often vitamin enriched nshima encourages households to send their children to school (nshima looks rather like mashed potato and is a staple food in Zambia). KondananiZambia with the help of our wonderfully supportive donors forwarded a goodly sum for food aid early in December 2019!

10.10.2021 Latest newsletter with report of Mark and Iris August monitoring visit. Gift cards available now for Christmas.

03.10.2021 Engineers Without Borders USA Engineers Without Borders Canada I wonder whether you have some good ideas for designing a school desk that could be manufactured locally in Zambia? The kids have been improvising using bricks, but with 50 in a class it gets difficult!

23.09.2021 Today we went to see the new water point in Mabanga with Mark Preston which we worked on with Zambia Open Community Schools to provide a base for the community. With the drought this season water is an all important resource and the Head teacher at the community school is already planning to teach children to plant vegetables in the newly formed school garden.