The class sponsorship programme has continued to assist 1,400 children, contributing classroom equipment, teaching materials and improvements to school buildings.
With the generous help of our class sponsors, Kaloko now supports 30 classes at our three schools as well as the crèche. This vital support is improving learning for pupils at Luansobe Upper Basic (LUBS), Kwesha and Kandulwe (which achieved an 88% pass rate at grade seven) Primary Schools and the Kaloko Crèche. Through a partnership agreement with Kaloko, the Zambian government provides the schools with some teachers and equipment. Those parents who can afford it also contribute, but this isn’t enough to keep the schools functioning. Kaloko’s class sponsorship programme helps to cover the other costs. During 2019 the grant funded by class sponsors paid for books, paper, pens, pencils, chalk, calculators, flip charts and much more. At Kandulwe and Kwesha Schools they are using some funds to slowly build very basic teacher housing. At LUBS it even paid for a photocopier to print test papers, worksheets and teaching materials.