User:Maanda Basic School

Peter Apuleni

Peter Apuleni was taught how to read and write by the early missionaries in the area. This is a segment out of their book."(...) While we are absent, Apuleni will have charge of the school at Macha. He was the second boy to come to the mission, nearly seven years before, and has been with us ever since, except for nearly eighteen months, when he, with  other boys, went away to Salisbury to work. He has made good in school, and has accepted Christ as his Savior. He says his chief desire is to know the will of God and do it. He is well versed in the Scriptures, is a good teacher and helper in Sunday-school, and reads, not only his own Tonga language, but also Zulu quite readily, and English, and acts as an interpreter from these two languages into his own. " This is the story of Peter Apuleni as written by Hannah Frances Davidson: A record of fifteen years missionary labors among primitive peoples.

The Project

Maanda is a village in the chiefdom of Mapanza, located in Choma district in the southern province of Zambia. www.maanda.nl Story has it that the original school in Maanda village was first established by Peter Apuleni, the grandfather of Laiven, Brite Apuleni (and many others ofcourse) As a young man Peter was taught how to read and write by the first missionaries in the area [Hannah Frances Davidson: A record of fifteen years missionary labors among primitive peoples, page 279 ]. The school was nothing more than a place of gathering under a big tree, not far from where the buildings of the present school are located. Aim of the Project

The aim of the project is the provision of facilities for education for the children of Maanda area so the future prospects of the childre n could be improved. The project aims to improve the facilities of the village school and make it attractive for well-trained teachers to work in the village. We intend to archieve this through the restauration and building of an extra classroom block and a well designed teachers’ house. Given the size of the project, for management reasons, the project was initially divided into three stages, including the installation of a water pump. After visiting the school in October 2009, we noticed that in the vicinity of the school there is a waterpump already present. This has led to a revision of the phasing. This is now as follows: Phase 1: The expansion of the school with two additional classrooms. Phase 2: Building extra houses for teachers and connecting of electricity. The Project has also layed a foundation for future exchanges of knowledge between the schools in Deventer and Maanda. In the first place the exchanges were based on curiosity, children in Deventer gave a list of questions to children in Maanda. The children from Deventer wanted to know what the children of Maanda do in their free time. what kind of toys they have, whether the children in Maanda also have pets. From maanda a similar list of quetions were asked to the children of Deventer. We then asked the children of Deventer and Maanda to exchange dreams of what they would like to do when they grow up. In phase 2: we would like to find ways of developing upon these ideas.