Education Support
Our communities struggle with low transition rates out of primary school, exposing a serious lack in quality of education.
Education Support
Our communities struggle with low transition rates out of primary school, exposing a serious lack in quality of education.
project overview
Musonda School
Improving school access and quality of education amongst children receiving education support through PLAEP: Through access to quality education Children are empowered with the requisite lifelong knowledge and skills that enhances their access to opportunities and income which invariably reduces poverty.
School Support
PLAEP now supports over 900 HIV affected Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) at Musonda School. The school runs from grade one to nine.
Daily Nutritious Meals
Poverty and hunger lead many children in our community to skip school! The meals serve as a huge incentive for children to attend and remain in school and bolster their difficult journey out of poverty.
Child Sponsorship
Every bit of support from generous sponsors like yourselves enables PLAEP to meet various school expenses for these children including daily nutritious meals, user fees, school supplies, clothing, and household support as needed.
Musonda School's Programs
Psychotherapy Care
A dedicated school counselor offers individual counseling to help students resolve personal or interpersonal problems. Small group counseling is also offered to help students enhance listening and social skills, learn to empathize with others, Cope with school or community-related violence, and trauma and find social support through healthy peer relationships.
Life Skills Development
We are dedicated to raising students’ academic standards and levels as well as their spiritual, moral, social, and cultural understanding as they progress through Musonda School. This enables each of our pupils the chance to develop a solid sense of self, a feeling of place and purpose, and the self-assurance to explore and question who they are in the world. Additionally, it gets them ready for life’s great challenges to come.
Community Day Care Centers
The day care centres provide an early learning environment for young children to engage in age appropriate, language-rich activities and social interactions to stimulate social attachments, physical and intellectual abilities as they progress to grade one. Two centres have been established in Mufuchani and Musonda communities of Kitwe with over 60 learners.
Adult Literacy Programs
The adult literacy program was introduced to address the low adult literacy levels in the community. PLAEP shares the view that illiteracy is both the cause and the effect of many social challenges and has a profound socio-economic impact on low-income households and further perpetuates a vicious cycle of poverty due to lack of skills to sustain production or gain them formal employment.
The program aims at providing the learners with functional literacy and numeracy skills. A combination of interactive and participatory teaching-learning methods is employed during literacy classes, including problem-solving, role play (simulations) storytelling, and group discussions.
- Literacy instructors use real-life examples as the basis for teaching and learning. During learning sessions, learners are divided into small groups and encouraged to brainstorm about issues of relevance to their respective communities.
- The discussions are then used to nurture speaking, writing, reading, comprehension, and word recognition skills. Often, a topic is first presented and discussed in the local language. Thereafter, groups of learners are instructed to work on exercises designed to develop English-language vocabulary, accompanied by reading and writing activities on that topic.
- Plenty of dialogue work, role play and learning games are used. A similar approach is also used in teaching numeracy, with examples often being drawn from livelihood or income generation activities.
