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Shipping Container List

The following outlines our ongoing supply list for the shipping container going to the Munyanya Village in Zambia, Africa. We are still in need of many items to make this grand shipping effort as fruitful as possible. Please contact us if you can make a donation of goods or support in funding the shipment. SPORTS EQUIPMENT 1. 18 basketball goals (ones that use sand or water) 2. 200 deflated basketballs (indoor/outdoor – girls and boys all ages and sizes 3. Whistles, pumps, needles, nets 4. 100 volleyballs (deflated) –good quality25 Volleyball nets -good quality 5. 100 soccer balls for HARD SURFACES NO GRASS/ALL AGES –girls and boys ...

Filling a Shipping Container, ‘Making a Bundle’

“Make every home, every shack or rickety structure, a centre of learning” – Nelson Mandela, comment on education Nelson Mandela, the first President of a democratic South Africa, would also support using shipping containers as school rooms and libraries. The 40 foot container that our friends and supporters have purchased, and is now sitting in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is almost half full of supplies. This is for the people in Munyanya Village, in Zambia. Our goal for shipping is $25,000.00 (US Dollars). A few days ago, friends and supporters gave $10,000.00 dollars. All we need now is $15,000.00, and that container will become a library...

Our Accomplishments of 2016 — Made Possible by Generous Donors

The year 2016 has been exciting in Munyanya Village, in Southern Zambia. Your gifts have helped bring hope to hungry families and address issues of poverty, while seeking to build strong sustainable communities—through transforming relationships. Learn about what your gifts have done in 2016.

Volunteers Keep Us Going

We had wonderful visits from friends of Partners In Development from the US including from Kentucky, South Carolina, and Virginia. Our organization thrives not only from donations but from visits by these kind and generous individuals. Partners In Development is seeking volunteer visitors to Zambia for June through August of 2017.

“Over seventy-six (76%) of rural Zambians face devastating poverty, denying access to safe water, education, primary health care, and food security.” –Jesuit Centre For Theological Reflection In Zambia.

School Girls’ Needs

School children in rural Zambia face many hurdles—such as poverty, walking long distances to school, lack of clean water, and sanitation. One of the main reasons that young girls drop out of school, in developing countries, is due to the lack of sanitation. We have built seven toilets in the area where we work. Another issue the young girls face in the community, is the lack of money needed to purchase sanitary pads during menstruation. A recent report told how young girls, will miss 50 days of school yearly, because they do not have five dollars a month to purchase pads—that is seventeen cents a day. Many females are forced to use anything...

Nelson Mandela said, “What counts in life is not the mere fact we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” Remember, clean water promotes life, and sanitation provides dignity.

Hunger is a Terrible Thing

Many children in the village where we work spend their day battling hunger, food insecurity, and poverty. Hunger limits one’s life in a way that is difficult to describe because you are constantly thinking about getting food, keeping food and not knowing when you are going to eat next. It’s a vicious cycle. Hunger and poverty can take one’s childhood away. We know that hungry children can’t learn in school if they feel sick, get distracted and start to fall behind due to lack of food. Many of the local preschool children have not been able to attend class as they do not have food to bring with them so parents have had to keep them at ...

Project Proposal: Borehole (Waterwell) in Munyanya Village

Project Proposal: Borehole (Waterwell) in Munyanya Village; Location: Country of Zambia, Africa; Village: Munyanya, Located 40 Miles West of Livingstone on the Zambezi River. This well will provide clean water to 250 people in Munyanya Village. One of the main causes of death among the people, that we work with, is diarrheal diseases, resulting from contaminated water. Funding for this well is $10,000.00. We have a gift of $2,400.00, so the remainder needed is $7,600.00. Clean water is the beginning of everything! This price covers the drilling, casing, Mark II Pump, concrete base, and thirty-meters of ‘spill-way’. Partners In ...

Project Proposal: Forty Foot Seaworthy Container

Project Proposal: Forty Foot Seaworthy Container; Location: Country of Zambia, Africa; Village: Munyanya, Located 40 Miles West of Livingstone on the Zambezi River. The container will be filled with educational materials for our preschool; primary school students (grades 1 – 9); and literacy program. In addition, supplies for our basketball, tee-ball, soccer, and volleyball programs will be shipped in the container. Hand tools (non-electric) will be shipped for our rural building programs. Once the container arrives, it will become a library and school classroom. Funding needed is $25,000.00, which will cover the purchase and shipping from ...