The Peter McDermott Skills Block at Kabwe is going up fast and is now approaching the roof . Tools for Self Reliance (TFSR) have shipped the tools for the building, carpentry and metalwork skills last week, these should arrive on-site towards the end of January 2012. Unfortunately TFSR were not able to supply sewing machines [...]
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I had been looking forward to this trip ever since I had met my husband John who told me about Zambia. It was so great to actually see the places he had talked about. Going there with Esnat and seeing all the hard work and amazing results that CONTESA is accomplishing made it just that [...]
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In the first part of our blog we explained how the kind and generous donations from our supporters have helped fund Our Lady’s Hospice in Kalinglinga. In this second post we want to highlight how the efforts of CONTESA and Our Lady’s Hospice have allowed children infected with HIV can start to have a normal [...]
It was with great sadness that the CONTESA trustees learnt of the sudden and unexpected death of Bishop Charles Nkole of Kabwe on October 24th 2010. Charles Makungu Nkole was born at the Kasama General Hospital on 17th April 1965, the second born in a family of four. He was educated at Lubuto Upper Basic [...]
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At their December 2010 meeting the CONTESA trustees approved a grant of £10,00 per annum for 2 years (2011 and 2012), funded by proceeds from CONTESA Hong Kong from proceeds from their gala launch, to support the Childrens Clinic at Our Lady’s Hospice, Kalingalinga Shanty Compound, Lusaka. The Hospice opened in 2003 as a response to the [...]
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