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Second meeting with the Zambian High Commissioner
Just before Christmas I had a second meeting with the Zambian High Commissioner, Mr. Anderson Chibwa. He introduced me to a former colleague of his, called Njekwa, who works for a large multi-national NGO in Zambia and has specialist knowledge of the education sector.Establishing an NGO partner
After showing Njekwa a prototype of the new website (about 90% complete) we had a brief discussion about our aims and initial plans. A key aspect of this was our wish to find an established NGO partner in Zambia who has the capacity to build not one, but numerous schools. The thinking being that we can use our learning from the first school to build many other schools in the region. At least, that’s the theory!
Njekwa kindly offered to support us by using her local knowledge to research and shortlist a number of potentially suitable NGO partners, who we can then contact and visit on our initial trip. And from this we can select a partner to work with.
Numerous other things were discussed including how the relationship with the NGO and local community may work, through to issues we may face on the ground and very rough costings. Njekwa also suggested that we visit at least one well run community based school whilst on our trip to use both as a benchmark and to help establish best practice. A great idea! And one we defiantly hope to follow up if at all possible.
So the next steps are for Njekwa to carry out her exploratory research and then discuss and follow up what she comes back with.
Your ideas
Should you have any suggestion for a potential NGO partners, or anything else you thing may be useful, then we’d love to here it. Please add a comment or send an email to hello at learnasone dot org.
The initial requirements are:
- A local NGO specialising in education and located in Zambia
- Capacity to build numerous schools in one region
Thanks. More to follow as soon as we have it.
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