ZAP - Zambia Allocation Program

NEWSLETTER 44 - december 2021

Take part in the future of ZAP How? Become Founding Fathers - The Founding Fathers of ZAP commit for three years and donate a minimum of € 1500,- yearly. (ZAP has the ANBI status) Become Friend of ZAP - every donation is more than welcome! You will do us a great pleasure if you share the link of this website with friends and acqaintances. Charity Dinner Last September a Charity Dinner was organised in Blaricum by Voorma & Walch, van Poelgeest and the local Albert Heijn. The Good Cause that evening was ZAP. Thanks to Jacques Walch as inspired auctioneer and the sale of Bingo cards, it generated a fantastic amount for ZAP. This grant, supplemented by a donation from McKinsey, is being used for the extension and furnishing of the girls boarding school at the secondary school in Nkulamaziba. It means that we will be able to offer another 80 girls a safe haven. We owe huge gratitude to the organisers and everyone who contributed to this event! Change in the board Because of her domicile in Italy, Madelon Steenstra Toussaint has decided to relinquish her ZAP board function. We are delighted that she will continue her involvement with ZAP from the sidelines and thank her for her great contribution. She will be succeeded by Charlotte van Dixhoorn, whom they are pleased to present to you: Lotte van Dixhoorn (1989) lives and works in Amsterdam, in the strategy team of the nature institute Artis: the piece of Amsterdam that looks most like Zambia. She has a warm connection with Zambia, where she lived until she was 18 years old. Over the past 5 years she has been active for ZAP via her former employer, McKinsey, whom she convinced to fund the programme to keep girls in (primary) school. She knows the area in which ZAP works well from the time she lived in Zambia, and also wanted to stay actively involved because of this. The active participation of the community and government support for ZAP's activities is most important to her, as this ensures the long term success of the programme. She's looking forward to helping to think about ZAP's strategy and how ZAP can continue to contribute to the development of amazing Zambia! Update current activities Training centre In the last Newsletter we announced the creation of the training centre for practical vocational courses. The construction of the first two classrooms is finished. In the next phase two half- open workspaces will be added. Next year, after the rainy season, we hope to be able to start with the first training courses for seamstresses and carpenters. How can you support this project? We need another € 5000,- for the construction of the half-open workspaces a contribution for the carpentry kits (€ 115,- for one) a contribution for the sewing machines (€ 75,- for one) Primary school in Nkulamaziba By now, a good 900 kids attend this primary school. At the moment it consists of 7 classrooms but an additional block with two classrooms is essential. The foundation ‘Het Tiende Kind’ has provided an important contribution to this project. This means that we now only need another € 3000,-. (Total budget € 29.000,-). Under the direction of our construction manager Jericho, the community has already started digging the foundation and making the bricks. Programme to keep the girls in school Since the start of this programme, McKinsey Children Foundation has supported it. We are most grateful that McKinsey has decided to prolong the contract for the next year. ZAP thanks all of you for your continued support and donations and we wish you a good and warm Christmas! HELP ZAP We intensely hope for your support. There are various ways by which to support ZAP: from large to small. ZAP has got the ANBI status. How do you go about it? Adopt a project Become a Founding Father (or Mother) for a minimum yearly amount of € 1500 during 3 years Or any other contribution to our work. Everything is more than welcome! With our heartfelt regards, ZAP (Zambia Allocation Program) Josien Dudok van Heel