I am desperate to go back - I know you get attached to wherever you go, but I really have Africa in my blood now!
Brenda Wood - Zambia Volunteer
You will be working for Lusaka’s ‘invisible’ communities: families and individuals who have settled in the unplanned shanty towns that circle the capital. These people have no schools, running water or sanitation. Come and build some basic amenities for them.
Mission Direct gives ordinary people the chance to do extraordinary things around the world. In two weeks you will change the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. You can help to build a house, classroom or clinic. We discover people and groups doing remarkable things in their own countries. Then we provide them the people and resources that they need. We do this by enabling people like you, with two or more weeks to join our life-altering trips.

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A proper childhood is a precious commodity. It is one that is cruelly denied to tens of thousands of children in Zambia. Due to poverty and AIDS, they are denied such basics as food, shelter and education. Most tragically, many children are even denied a loving family and left abandoned as street children.
With Mission Direct you can help to give some of these things back to Zambia’s children. You will be working on school building projects for primary school children from one of Zambia’s poorest townships, who would otherwise be denied any education at all. This is the first step out of poverty for these children and their families.
Contribution: £1,495/£1,595