IN SUPPORT OF CHILDREN WHO ARE DISABLED, ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE

Jordan Community School

Jordan Community School

Jordan is a Compound, approx 5 kilometres from the centre of Lusaka. Most compounds have emerged as vulnerable households gather together and build their homes. The facilities of running water and power are not available to many of the households, therefore life expectancy there is approximately 35 years. Cholera outbreaks occur regularly.

The United Church of Zambia has a church in the middle of Jordan Compound. Jordan community school has emerged from the many pleas of parents, relatives and the children themselves, for an opportunity to have some education.

In 2009 the UCA UnitingWorld - Overseas Aid accepted this emerging community school as a UCA project, supervised by ZOCS staff.

already there are students, and 10 teachers.

There is great participation by church members, and carers of the orphans and vulnerable children of the school;

[see pictures of the men using broken wheel barrows to increase the height of the foundations for the first school building.]

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(see april flooding in Lusaka compounds - )

(to understand life in the various compounds in peri-urban areas of Lusaka see: Glimpses of Life in the Compounds of Lusaka - June, July and August 2007; or other papers written by the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection, Zambia )

or papers by our friend Pete Henriot, JC. and the Basic Needs Basket that JCTR does each month which gets up the nose of parliamentarians……….

As in many Zambian Peri-Urban Compounds, food is scarce.

Linda School

is the flagship of ZOCS -------

some pictures –