Club Name: Rotary Club of Maluba
Name of the Project: Girls Empowerment in Nyampande Chiefdom, Petauke District Eastern Province
Objectives: What you plan to achieve by the end of your project?
- Equip learners with improved career choices, entrepreneurial skills, and personal development.
- Fostering the advancement of young girls and boys to make positive life choices and maximise their potential.
- Reduced unplanned pregnancies.
Area of focus: What area focus does the project support?
- Economic and community development
- Basic literacy and education
Community Needs: What primary needs were identified before project initiation?
- Poor career choices by pupils
- Lack of community development
- Teenage pregnancies increased and early marriages.
- Lack of career guidance
Category: What category does your project fall under? Planned Project, Ongoing Project, or Completed Project.
- Ongoing project-long term project
Direct Beneficiaries: Who are the direct beneficiaries of this project?
- Secondary school pupils
Indirect Beneficiaries: Who are the indirect beneficiaries of this project?
- Parents
- Community of Nyampande chiefdom
Sustainability: How sustainable in the project and what have you done to ensure sustainability?
- We have ensured complete partnership as a needs assessment was undertaken that included, pupils, church leaders, traditional leadership, parents.
- Future money-making activities to be encouraged and trained.
Partners: Who are your project partners?
- Ministry of education
- Secondary schools in Nyampande
- District education office
Budget: What is the project budget?
- $15,310 p.a
- Travel expenses
- Travel and accommodation
- Purchase of teaching materials
- Purchase of footballs and jerseys
- Purchase of sanitary pads
Contact Person:
- Chanje Makayi- Service Projects Director – chanje40@gmail.com
Club Name: Rotary Club of Maluba
Name of the Project: Donation of Neonatal Equipment at 3 Major Hospitals in Zambia and Training Equipment to New-born Support Zambia
Objectives: What you plan to achieve by the end of your project?
- To reduce neonatal mortality from the current 30% by improving quality of care in small and sick neonates dying from prematurity, infection, and asphyxia at the NICU at the subject hospitals.
Area of focus: What area focus does the project support?
- Disease prevention and treatment
- Maternal and child health
Community Needs: What primary needs were identified before project initiation?
- Increased death of prenatal babies
- Insufficient space at the nicus
- Insufficient support from trained medical personnel
- Insufficient training equipment for medical staff
- Insufficient lifesaving equipment at the NICU
Category: What category does your project fall under? Planned Project, Ongoing Project, or Completed Project.
- Planned project.
Direct Beneficiaries: Who are the direct beneficiaries of this project?
- Prenatal babies
- Medical staff
Indirect Beneficiaries: Who are the indirect beneficiaries of this project?
- Parents
- Hospital management
Sustainability: How sustainable in the project and what have you done to ensure sustainability?
- The project is highly sustainable, because the project managers and partners ensure the proper use of equipment further will be made because training for maintenance is paramount.
- The students trained in the specialised care of neonates is made in their training and further payments are made by students and government too.
Partners: Who are your project partners?
- Project cure – an NGO based in the United States of America which donates used medical equipment.
- Rotary club of Kansas City.
- Ministry of health
- New-born support Zambian – an NGO responsible for short term training for specialised medical care in neonatal care.
Budget: What is the project budget?
- TBA – awaiting assessment from project cure personnel.
- Initial cost of $4000 for assessment
- $35,000 per 40foot containers transported to the nearest port.
- $17.500 for training equipment
Contact Person:
- Chanje Makayi– Service Project Director chanje40@gmail.com
