Beyond Cranleigh

Child sponsorship programme

The child sponsorship programme for the education of children at Kawama School in Zambia, a partner school of Cranleigh, has made an encouraging start with 72 children sponsored so far. However, our target is to have all the 220 children at the School sponsored, and time is running out as they have already started their academic year. The funding to pay for them is currently being taken from rapidly depleting reserves raised last year that were put aside for building developments at the School. Therefore it is vital that we raise these sponsorships as soon as possible; both for them and for the development prospects for the School as a whole.

Can you help?
These are vulnerable, poor and sometimes orphaned children. Your help sponsoring their education can make a huge difference to their lives and the future of the School. Every penny of sponsorship (plus giftaid) goes directly to the School in Kawama to pay for that child’s education.

The cost of £12.50 per month goes towards:
-    A meal each school day
-    A new school uniform
-    Paying the School teachers salaries (they are currently volunteers)
-    Purchasing ongoing School resources
-    Basic medical care

Remember: 100% of your donation goes to these children’s education at Kawama.
Once you sign up, details of the child you have sponsored will be sent to you.

Please visit the Beyond Ourselves website to download a sponsorship form.

Make sure at the top of the form you tick the box ‘Other’ and then write ‘Beyond Cranleigh’.

Zambia Trip - October 2011 Video

Zambia Trip 2012 planned to build on the successes of 2011....

In July this summer, as part of Cranleigh’s continuing commitment to its partnership with Kawama School in the copper belt region of Zambia, teachers Tom Barnett and Shannon Thomson will travel to the school with 19 Sixth Form pupils and a representative from the charity Beyond Ourselves.

This follows and builds upon two very successful trips last year in which Cranleigh pupils also visited Kawama and became involved in both teaching and manual jobs such as building and painting. They also learnt huge amounts about life in a very different school community and country (See articles on Zambia 2011 page).

The purpose of this trip is multifaceted but follows in the spirit of partnership in a number of ways. Firstly to aid the charity Beyond Ourselves to improve and develop the facilities at Kawama School. It is also an opportunity for Cranleigh pupils to learn from and possibly gain a life changing experience of working within a very different cultural community.

The agenda for the trip will involve Cranleigh pupils becoming teaching assistants in Kawama School classes. They will also commit to some manual work to help improve the facilities of the school. Finally they will help paint a large wall mural designed by pupils from both schools. This painting will celebrate the connection between these two schools through the designing and making of it, but also in the subject matter of the finished image.