EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

Nsefu Wildlife School and Conservation Education Programs

Key to the success of the Foundation's wildlife and environmental protection initiative is the development of a positive and sustainable interface with the Nsefu Sector community. Youth education and community outreach are the means by which residents can be taught to support anti-poaching efforts and learn about conservation.

The Chabwera School (K-8)

The Nsefu Sector is very large and very poor. Our foundation has been extremely busy with building schools with the first one completed in 2017 and the Secondary School currently under construction. The Primary School is the Chabwera School. Though the Dept. of Education has sanctioned this as a government school, Nsefu Wildlife and Zikomo Safari have been the principal sources of funding. The school has grown from 60 students to 325+ and has six teachers. Furthermore, Chabwera is the school that parents want to send their children to because of the quality education. We have an amazing staff there and they take education VERY seriously.

Chief Nsefu had originally requested from us a larger school at Chabwera with multiple classrooms, but funding at the time only allowed for one classroom to be built with hopes in the near future to construct two more. Nsefu Wildlife and Zikomo Safari have been seeking sources of funding to complete the Chabwera school vision. The school desperately needs more classrooms but the Dept. of Education has the last word on where help is needed most. Each classroom costs US$10,000-15,000 (depending on Dollar/Kwacha exchange rate) and each classroom will require more teachers for the children. The teacher salaries run total US$500 per month, or $6,000/year. The per diem cost for each child is$10.00 per term. There are three terms per year, so the annual cost is US$9,750 ($10.00 X 3 terms X 325 students). The total annual school operating cost is US$15,750.

Nsefu Secondary School (9-12)

We are VERY proud to announce our Secondary School is nearing completion thanks to our wonderful friends at Park Lane International Schools. Members of Park Lane visited Zambia a couple of years ago and were wowed with what Nsefu Wildlife was achieving and doing in the sector and wanted to help. This school will have a soft opening later this year or early next year with the Official Opening slated for April 2022. In charge of the construction and the Park Lane liaison is our very own Director of Special Projects, Enrico Carretta. The projections are that this school will serve 700 students initially and 900 by 2024. We are indebted to our friends Jan Bebr and Jan Cihak of Park Lane for making this happen and we can’t wait for the official opening. This means that Nsefu Wildlife will have two schools with over 1000 students learning about their wildlife and natural resources!!! Furthermore, Team Nsefu Zambia has introduced conservation clubs in all the local schools.

The children are the future of Zambia (and the world for that matter) and when you educate them about the beauty and purpose of their wildlife and valuable resources and then teach them how to protect them…you have real hope for the future. Your foundation is changing lives…both human and animal!

Support Nsefu Wildlife’s Educational Programs

  • Build a classroom US $10,000-15,000 (With signage if requested i.e. in Memoriam…)

  • Support a teacher US $90-100/mo

  • School Supplies US $100/mo

  • Donate Uniforms to those who can’t afford them $10/uniform