Imagine turning up for school one morning and the building is no longer there?
That's what happened yesterday when our
Book Bus team arrived at ROC school in Kitwe, Zambia. The rains had been so
heavy that it had washed away the main school building.
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| Book Bus Raj gets to work |
Un-phased our local team, Monica, Raj and
Bwalya, rolled up their sleeves and set to work helping the local community
rebuild the classroom.
ROC school is a community school that
the Book Bus has been visiting in 2015 and is part of our 2016 programme.
It provides education to children
from the surrounding improvised area. Many of the children would not attend
school if ROC school wasn't there so it was crucial to get the school classroom
rebuilt before the next rains arrived.
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| Bwalya swaps books for bricks for a day |
Everyone in the community chips in to do
their bit including formal pupil Bryson who is the only young person in the
area to make it to secondary school.
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| Former pupil Bryson helps out |
"It was a bit of a shock when we
arrived to see the devastation to the school. We knew we needed to help, so we
parked Book Bus George and set to help the community rebuild the school,"
said Book Bus Reading Champion, Bwalya Chimba
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| Raj & the pupils take a break |
"This community really understands
that importance of education so set to work to get the school back up and
running. We'll be back running our Book Bus reading sessions as soon as we
can," said Bwalya. "The children love the Book Bus sessions and we
want to ensure we continue to help them develop a love of reading," concludes Bwalya as she swaps bricks for books with the rest of the school community.
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