Changing lives at Nayamba School

In 2010, the owners of the Nagwaza Farm in the Chisamba district of Zambia founded Nayamba School. Their aim was to educate the children of families working on all the surrounding farms because there was no affordable school close enough nearby. This wonderful free school now educates more than 350 children from the local area.

Today, Nayamba School is supported by The Nayamba Trust, a charity built around a thriving educational community and supported by the Nagwaza Farm, trustees and volunteers in Zambia, the UK and beyond.

Initially designed for primary-aged pupils and consisting of three classrooms and a small office, today we provide a pre-school, 10 classrooms for Years 1 to 9 and a sustainable trade centre for apprentices to learn a trade once they leave Nayamba School. Over the years, we have also built 12 houses for teachers to live on site.

The Nayamba Trust works closely with the school to develop good educational practice by supporting teacher training and development, and providing basics such as textbooks and electricity. But we still need to do more.

Because of our 100 percent model, every single penny you donate or raise goes directly to Nayamba School.

“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”

— Nelson Mandela

Here’s how we help.

All the money we raise goes directly to supporting Nayamba School - in many different ways. Here are just some of the things for which we provide support:

Education Strategy

Nayamba school follows the national Zambian Curriculum, supplemented by tested learning techniques such as synthetics phonics.

Infrastructure

We support the renovation and repurposing of existing buildings and fund new buildings as required.

Scholarships

Our scholarship programme supports gifted students to them to continue their studies elsewhere after leaving Nayamba.

Food Programme

We aim to give every single child in Nayamba School a hot, nutritious meal and some snacks every day.

Facilities

We provide effective facilities for the school, including the funding to find and establish new boreholes.

Projects

Projects range from large infrastructure projects to small one-off requirements, such as improving the school’s wifi.

Resources

We fund the purchase of resources, ranging from learning-through-play toys for pre-school to exam textbooks for older students.

Teacher development

Through trips and online CPD we support our teachers to develop their classroom management and learner centred teaching skills.

Exams

As an officially registered exam centre, Nayamba School enables students to sit their nationally recognised exams on site.

Mentoring

Through coaching, we support the school’s senior leadership team to identify and improve areas for development in the school.

Some of our recent school projects

  • Teachers' houses

    We built houses for our teachers so that we can attract and recruit great teachers to this rural location in Zambia.

  • Accessing water

    The first challenge was finding a clean, deep water source, then drilling a borehole, adding a solar pump and tank.

  • Playground

    All children learn through play, so one of our volunteer projects was to build heavy duty play equipment for playtime fun.

  • Sanitation

    Due to improvements in sanitation, the school no longer drop holes but has purpose built toilets and a hand washing area.

  • Food programme

    In order to banish hunger and help children learn better, we fund daily hot nutritious food for all our children.

What Nayamba means
to our students

We love talking to the students at Nayamba. They are so happy to share their experiences with us and tell us what being at Nayamba has meant for them. Even students who have left and gone on to other schools, to continue their education, are happy to come back and tell us why Nayamba has a special place in their hearts.

Not forgetting our amazing teachers

We can build buildings, provide resources, feed our students, but at the heart of Nayamba is our amazing teaching staff. We work closely with all our teachers to ensure their continuing professional development so that they can continue to be the very best they can be for our students.

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