CHRISTINE SMITH
WELCOME, I am Christine Smith, The Founder / Director of the Shane Perry Smith Christian Foundation, we are a Non Governmental Organization, (NGO), and we look after widows and orphans in Africa. The "HOME", of the foundation is in Chisamba, Zambia, Africa. 65Km NE of Lusaka city, the capital city of Zambia.
Shane Perry Smith, was my late husband, I lost him to cancer in March 2006, and it was after his passing, that I had a calling to build this foundation. I have named it after my late husband, as he was such a people's person, and everyone who knew Shane quickly became a close friend.
We spent 9 beautiful years together. We were both Zimbabwean's, and moved to Zambia in July 2000.. We both fell in love with Zambia, and shared lots of love and happiness here, and therefore, it is only fitting that I repay Zambia, for that same love and happiness and to help her, widows and orphans - seeing I could never have children of my own.
We are a newly formed foundation and it is my wish for you to know about what our vision is for Africa, and we invite you to embark on this AWESOME adventure with us.
SHANE PERRY SMITH
THE VISION OF THE FOUNDATION:-
We have chosen Zambia, to be our first nation, in Africa. The Christian Ministries will build on top of our foundation, preaching and teaching the word of God, breaking every strong hold satan has over every nation in Africa. Upon completion of our Zambian project, we will go North in Africa to build our next project.
Chisamba is a vast District, and we have attempted to complete a full survey of the District, but it is so vast that we still have not been able to complete this. We are currently working with widows and orphans in the communities. We have found that we will never be able to build facilities big enough to accommodate all the widows and orphans. This will also be an enormous cost. We have to go into all 9 provinces of Zambia, so we will grow Christian leaders, and we will work with the Churches in each area, thus following a true Biblical Principal, by looking after our widows and orphans. These leaders will go into the communities and work with them, and will bring back to us as a Foundation the needs of each widow and her family unit and the orphans. From there we will then assist in every way possible. Either with housing or food, or school fee's etc.
Currently, we have no other organization working at all in the Chisamba District. It is the mandate of many large organizations to expand and are given budgets to do just that, but for some reason, they geographical limit their areas, and Chisamba is not on their geographical limits. So there is no assistance at all.
Our greatest need is that we have widows who need a job, they all say that they need food to feed themselves and their family units, but they have no income from a job. They say that if we give them food today it is nice, but then what do they do tomorrow. So we would like to put up a Widows Training Facility, and purchase sewing machines, stoves, knitting machines, have a small agriculture section, with pigs, chickens, dairy etc, thus teaching them a skill, and at the same time we will use this facility to generate an income for them. If these widows can earn an income then they can also afford to pay for their children to attend school. This is a huge expense, as school fee's are expensive for a poverty stricken community. We all know that an education is most important, for these children, so it will be another huge cost should we as a Foundation have to fund each orphan child to attend school. So we need to make a plan for these widows to take care of this problem on their own, by providing them a job. We need organizations to partner with us on this.
We currently take care of our widows medical expenses. We give them a registration card so that they can attend the local clinics and hospitals. This is most important right now as most widows are aged, and when the younger family head passes away, they pass the orphan children on to the old widow, and this is difficult for them as they suffer from all the typical old age aches and pains, so we are requesting as much basic medical assistance from organizations as possible
We have located a 2400 hectare farm, 11km from Chisamba Town, which we are in the process of fund raising for. This farm, has two dams for irrigation, a school. large clinic, Church, farm store, piggery, dairy, chicken runs. cold rooms, large office block, plenty staff houses, and many more facilities needed to provide for our widows and orphans. Please will you assist us and make a donation.
MISWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL:-
We have started a school, called Miswa Christian School, it is a Community School, and it is situated in an area called Miswa of Chisamba District, we have been given 5 hectares of land by the Community to build on, and we are a newly formed school, which I will upload photo's soon onto the new page we have just created, but we are currently 148 pupils, Grade One to Grade Seven and we have applied for Grade 8 to Grade 12 with the Ministry Of Education, we are currently fund raising to build this school, so in the mean time we have built a classroom with sticks and thatch, and we are making farm bricks from the ant hills on the land, so we are looking for funding for roofing sheets, timber, doors, door frames, windows and glass, each classroom is 7m x 7m, and we need to urgently get seven up by the rainy season in November this year. We are using the soccer field that we inherited with the land for our classrooms, each class has found a corner, one has found a nice big tree just off the field, and the one classroom we have built, of sticks and thatch so far, which we use for our Pre-Schoolers and our Grade Ones. We started the school on the 17th of May 2011, and we are growing weekly by a minimum of 5 children every week. We have the full backing of the Ministry Of Education, and they are currently assisting us in training our teachers and they have also provided the much needed curriculum to teach our children. We are charging K2000 (rate of 4700 to dollars) per child per term, now every child in the family has the chance to attend school, before in the past, each family could only send one child to school, because school fee's are so expensive, they are K30 000 per month, and each family head only earns on average K300 000 per month, the families usually have 4 to 5 children, so this makes it impossible for them to send all their children to school. So this is why we are charging a minimal fee, but this does present problems for us, we can not pay our teachers or build with that kind of income, so we need to fund raise for the building, and we are currently paying our teachers in mealie meal. In order to make a difference in the nation, we need to educate the children, and we need to subsidize the fee's in order to get ALL the children educated. PLEASE HELP ME MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Donate today!
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