King Tony

In 2011, Joseph Mizzi travelled to Zambia to donate bicycles to schoolchildren. He arrived and found that the reason children needed bicycles was a seven-kilometre walk to the nearest school, each way. He went back to New York and built something more permanent instead. What followed was a school, a health clinic, teacher housing, and landscaping across 100 acres in Chipakata Village. The design breaks from the standard linear classroom block separating rooms, opening space between them, placing everything under a wide metal canopy that lifts above the roofline to let heat escape and air move through. Masonry base. Timber. Local materials throughout. The community pavilion was raised with the participation of the village people themselves. The agricultural fields surrounding the school generate food for the students and income for the facility. The school funds itself by feeding the land that feeds it back. This is what aid to Africa should look like. Not a cash transfer that dissolves into overhead and corruption before it reaches a child. A building. A field. A skill transferred to the hands that will maintain it after the donor has gone home. Infrastructure that the community owns because the community built it. Cash is the easiest thing to give. It is also the easiest thing to lose. Permanent structures, working land, and trained local hands are harder to misplace. Chipakata Children’s Academy, Chipakata Village, Zambia 🇿🇲 | Susan Rodriguez (Ennead Architects) + Frank Lupo + Randy Antonia Lott | 14+ Foundation | 20,000 sq.ft | 2015 | 📷 Rob Duker, Fabian Bedolla

Ugandan Politician, Evelyn Anite took back an ambulance she donated to her district, after losing an election in 2021.

Ela ba kopala I collect & buy recyclable waste. PET, HD, LD, LHD, HDP, boxes, plastics and poly bags. If you produce a lot of these type of waste please you can call me I will come and collect. Chingola, chililabombwe, mufulira, luanshya, Ndola & Kitwe 0973679929

I didn't know that Zambians are ageists🤔

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