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Our Achievements

Since its establishment in 2007 Chibozu Community Trust has achieved a number of projects milestones in Simooya area including:

  • Building of a local clinic and nurse’s house.
  • Building of a local community school
  • Installed computers in the local community school donated by a charity called Computers4Africa in the UK.
  • Empowered women’s and men’s clubs by distributing hand sewing and working in brick laying and carpentry donated by a charity called Tools With A Mission in the UK
  • Solar lighting of the clinic building donated by a charity called Solar Aid in the UK
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Our Scope of Activities

Chibozu Community Trust’s Mission Statement is “to improve the quality of life of the rural community”. It works purely in rural areas focusing its interventions on self-help community based development.

Chibozu Community Trust strives towards poverty alleviation by assisting the remote rural communities through community development approach to service delivery that places community at the centre of the development process, emphasizing community participation in all phases of project development and implementation. Thus the Trust works to build the community capacity for sustained development and the Trust believes that participatory development and empowerment of local communities are a hallmark of all its grassroots based activities.

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Orgnisational Objectives

  • To work closely with district government office of the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health in developing mechanisms to respond and facilitate education and health programmes, in particular but not exclusively in the villages of Simooya area.
  • Restore family economics through income generating activities such as agriculture and sewing skill training as a tool to improve and empower individuals to generate a sustainable income and self-sufficiency.
  • To encourage good community health care system through the prevention and eradication of traditional harmful practice best known as (Kanga) traditional healers.
  • Provide health centres, water and sanitation as well as awareness programs on HIV/AIDS.
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Challenges

The following are some of the current challenges in Simooya Village that Chibozu Community Trust would like to overcome:

  • The building of maternity facility at the medical clinic
  • The building of additional classrooms and to increase the current number of classrooms from three to six. This is to accommodate the increase in the number of students the school experienced in the last two years of its operation.
  • The building of a school library
  • Building of additional teacher’s houses increasing their number from two to five in order to bring and accommodate more teachers supplied by Zambian government.
  • Lack of facilities to implement an HIV/AIDS awareness and an outreach programme at the clinic for the community.
  • The need for more school reading books and internet facilities.