User:Eduktd/Ellensmere High School

INTRODUCTION


Ellensmere High School earlier known as 'Yonda fields', is privately owned a secondary boarding school in a rural  Zambian provice. (Muchonchi,Kabwe). The school is owned by a affluent family whose family immigrated to Zambia during and after the colonial years (1964 and beyond).

HISTORY OF ESTABLISHEMENT
The family that begun Ellensmere mainly comprised of hard working entrepreneurs who later came to own several major investments in Zambia. Among which their largest investments then,a series of tobacco farms, streching along many hectares in Muchonchi,Kabwe. Following privatisation of most of Zambia's major idustries by the new multi-party democratic goverment MMD, the the Zambian economy  begun to decline even more rapidly and subsequently affecting the once profitable tobacco farms, including those own by the family.