Project Updates

For the final 2 days of the trip, the local Mongu and Cork construction teams put on a huge push to complete the project. See the final two days progress here: Day 14 Progress Day 15 Progress During the 2 weeks of this year’s trip, the combined Cork and Mongu team did a fantastic job, finishing ahead of the agreed schedule. Given the difficulties they faced, including high temperatures, power cuts, this a great achievement.... | Read on »

Just 2 days to go for the Cork Friends of Zambia on their 2010 trip. Working closely with Augustin and the local construction team in Mongu, they have made fantastic progress in less than 2 weeks. Progress – Day 13 – Roofs are going on! Progress – Day 12 – Termite Alert Progress – Day 11 – Trusses in place The group will be leaving Mongu on Sunday, and arriving back to Ireland late on... | Read on »

The Cork Friends of Zambia are doing fantastic work and are ahead of schedule on the Educational Centre and Guest House build. The first group left for home on day 9 with the second group arriving and eager to start work. The lads experienced the highs and lows of Zambian life with the supply of electricity and water cut in almost the entire Mongu region on day 7.  However, thankfully, power was quickly restored and they were able to recommence work. Since arriving they... | Read on »

Event Update The second group of 14 volunteers for Jump for Africa 2010 set for Edenderry on Oct, 16th . The weather was perfect for the skydive and our volunteers jumped 13,000 feet from an airplane without a second look back! We are very proud of everyone involved and would like to thank them most sincerely for their support…. See below for some photos of the day. Our next group of willing individuals will take to the... | Read on »

The first group from the Cork Friends of Zambia project team arrived in Lusaka last Saturday morning. They were collected by the local project team at the airport by minibus and headed straight for Kaoma – a 5 hour drive – where they visited the project they worked on last year. They then travelled to Mongu – another 3 hour drive – arriving late on Saturday evening. Work began in earnest first thing the following... | Read on »

Laying of column blocks Pouring of concrete in all stripe foundations has been completed. Brick-laying of substructure bricks (hydro-form) commenced on the 6th of October, 2010 and we have done fifty percent of the work which will be concluded by the close of business on Tuesday. Plastering of exterior substructure walls also commenced on the 7th of October, 2010. Backfill and blinding will follow immediately internal plastering is concluded on the substructure walls. Training: –... | Read on »

The new Kaoma Block Maker project is well and truly up and running. Over 10,000 high-quality blocks have already been produced by the Block Maker team. These have been handed over to the construction team who are working on the foundations for the new school classrooms in Kaoma Community School. Additional Images: