Guardian Angels Community School

The school offers free education to orphans who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS, and other vulnerable children in the communities of Chilanga, Zambia

The Guardian Angels Community School is managed by the Sisters of Mercy of St Charles of Borromeo in Chilanga, Zambia. Guardian Angels has classes for children from Pre-school to Grade 7. The school opened in January 2002 as a day-care center. It was established to provide education for children whose parents were receiving palliative treatment or had died of HIV/AIDS in the Mother of Mercy Hospic

e. In 2002 the school had two teachers and 72 pupils. In September of that same year, it moved to larger premises and improved from a day center to a Community School. The school is built on the St. Mary’s Parish land and is registered to the Archdiocese o Lusaka and the Ministry of Education. The management board includes Sister Jeremia Mrowiec, who is the director of the school, and the Parents School Committee (P.C.S.C.). The School offers free education to orphans who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS, and also other vulnerable children in the communities and district of Chilanga, Zambia. The School is sponsored by the Touch Organization of Ireland who has – over the years – donated funds to construct the classroom blocks. There are 450 children in total (194 male and 256 female). We have one head-teacher and nine teachers -2 male and 8 female. How can you help? The school is pleased to have a feeding program, which offers every child one meal per day. One cook is employed, who provides all 450 children with lunch every school day. In the future we would like to have sufficient funding to provide two meals per day to each child, offering them lunch, and also breakfast in the morning, to help them remain engaged during classes. We would like to offer a "Sponsor a classroom" opportunity. This would enable people to sponsor a class, ensuring that the teaching of the children is to a high standard. The donations would go towards providing training for teachers, and ensuring each teacher receives their expected salary each month. One of the main challenges the school faces is its precarious water system and the provision of safe water, sanitation and the improvement of health and wellbeing of the children. The school is in need of a tank/pump to help improve the water system issues. We are lucky to be able to provide education for so many children here at Guardian Angels, however many are unable to progress after grade 7, as they don’t have the money to fund further education. Sponsorship for the Grade 7 children at Guardian Angels Community School, would give them a chance to advance their education even further. We would love to have transport for the children of Guardian Angels Community School. At the moment we have no way of taking the children out for events, as we have no transport to do this. In the future we would love to have a bus to give our children the opportunity to experience learning outside of the classroom.

19/05/2020

Preparing to reopen school for grade 7. It is soon, 1st June 2020. Thank you to our friends from Poland for the support and donation of needed items.

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02/10/2019

Today we celebrated our school feast - Guardian Angels Feast. We began with the Mass at the church and later we had joyful activities at school and wonderful meal. We thank to all our donors and supporters who donated food for this celebration. May God bless you.

21/07/2018

With the support from our friends from Poland we managed to fix the ceiling in the school library. The books are now prevented from so much dust.

07/12/2017

The Graduation Ceremony at our pre-school. 13 children graduated to grade one next year. Congratulations to the children and parents. At the same time we had Christmas Party and Father Christmas with gifts.

05/11/2017

Fundraising activities organized by teachers last Friday - great and successful day!

12/07/2017

We are taking part in a very exciting project with a local artist, Bonaventure, and Munda Wanga wildlife conservation centre & botanical gardens. Here's the start of our wire elephant, who will encourage our community to dispose of their plastic bottles in a designated place instead of just throwing by the roadside to help clean up our area. Grade 4-7 children participated in an art competition to get chosen to be on the team.

25/06/2017

We got pretty excited when selling our bracelets yesterday. Some of the boys created 'The Sales Dance' which we did for every single customer who bought for us! Now that's good customer service.

24/06/2017

We are at the Saturday market at the Dutch Reformed Church Kabulonga to sell our plastic bottle bracelets today! We are having a great time and learning lots about how to sell and talk to customers.

14/06/2017

Sometimes it is good to have a break from your daily duties. Last week I spent time with children teaching them to make beautiful cards.

30/05/2017

Our clubs started back this afternoon for Term 2. If you visit us on a Tuesday afternoon you'll find us dancing, computer coding, playing soccer, making jewellery, doing artwork, planting vegetables, learning from the bible, about the environment and also how to keep ourselves protected from HIV/AIDS.

28/04/2017

Our Environmental Club have been working with Munda Wanga (botanical gardens & wildlife sanctuary) in their community garden, where they learn about planting and growing and get hands on experience of this valuable skill. We were very excited to see our first vegetables (Chinese cabbage) sprouting when we reached the garden today! Well done to those children who have been coming to water and maintain the garden even during their school holidays.

06/04/2017

We had a wonderful day on Tuesday at our Family Fun Day, where we had face painting, penalty shoot, sack races, dance competitions, food and drinks and a very successful raffle. We are so proud to have raised over K3000 (almost £300!). Thanks to all our teachers for their hard work in organising over the past month and to the local community for their support.

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