Kalambo Junior Primary School Classroom Block Construction

About this Project

Community members of Ntchilamiro village in Zomba district in collaboration with a CorpsAfrica Volunteer, Grace Sichinga will construct a two roomed classroom block at Kalambo Junior Primary School. The school has standard 1 to 5 classes which are accommodated in four classrooms with some of the students learning under a shade. This new classroom block will provide a good learning environment for the standard 5 students who are currently learning in a shade and provides the school an opportunity to increase the classes to standard six. The school currently has an enrolment of 600 students and the block will benefit over 120. 

Led by Grace Sichinga, a former Corps Africa Volunteer, Kalambo School Management Committee is constructing a two-classroom block at Kalambo Junior Primary School in Zomba district. The project is 60% towards completion remaining with the roof, floor, and painting before it is ready for use. Once completed, the block will provide a conducive teaching and learning environment to not less than 120 students per academic year. Additionally, the project will enable the school to increase its enrollment as classes will increase from standard four to six which will offer an opportunity for other children around the community to access education at the school. 

Led by Kalambo school management committee, Ntchilamoyo Community in Zomba rural has successfully completed the construction of a classroom block at Kalambo junior primary school in the district. The two roomed classroom block was officially opened in September 2023 and it accommodates a total of 120 learners, 60 in each classroom, which poses a relief to students who had for the past years been learning under trees. Additionally, the project has also provided teachers with a conducive  teaching space which serves as a big motivation to teachers to deliver quality services.  The project has also indirectly  managed to impart skills in reading, writing, accounting, record keeping and project monitoring to community members who were involved in project management and implementation. Fifteen-year-old Maxwell Samson, a student at the school, expressed excitement about the project, stating, 'Learning under tree shade was often traumatizing, especially during the rainy season. We would often end class early for fear of rainfall, but with this project, all of that is history.'"