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Latest blog posts from Thembinkosi Foundation

Red Ribbons & World Aids Day
It's World Aids Day on 1st Decemember. The theme this year is Respect and Protect - visit the website for more information. If you'd like to buy an exclusive Red Ribbon enamel badge then visit Thembinkosi Africa on Ebay. All funds raised by Thembinkosi Africa are going towards the building of the...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Sustainable development, bio-diversity and environmental awareness in Zambia
As stewards of God's Creation humankind needs to analyse and act upon environmental issues. The generations of the future have to be environmentally aware if we are to survive. It is vital that concepts such as sustainable development, bio-diversity and how to achieve environmental awareness...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Zambian Elections 2008
Rupiah Banda (MMD) is the new President of Zambia. He's won the election by the narrowest of margins defeating Michael Sata by about 1% of the vote. Sata and his Patriotic Front party are now crying foul and claiming that the election has been stolen from them. Unfortunately The Post newspaper,...
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Published a month ago

Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga
Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga is the leader of the Catholic Church in Honduras and a leading proponent of Catholic Social Teaching. He is my modern day hero!Here are some quotes from a recent Tablet article that I found absolutely inspirational: (www.thetablet.co.uk/articles/12086/)On the...
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Published 2 months ago

ZICS on Facebook
Thembinkosi Foundation has launched a Facebook group called Build a school in Africa. The aim of the group is to spread awareness of our project proposals and subsequently to co-ordinate some of our fundraising ventures. Please visit our group at:Build a school in AfricaThe Thembinkosi Foundation...
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Published 2 months ago

Live Simply, West Papua & ZICS
In recent times I have been reflecting a great deal on the themes of Live Simply and Catholic Social Teaching. Yesterday at the J & P day Serile from West Papua gave an amazing account of fishing in his country. He told us that in West Papua there is a consensus among the people that when one...
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Published 2 months ago

Free West Papua
I spent much of today at a Justice and Peace day - where I met some truly inspirational people. I was privileged to meet the UK based leader of the West Papuan independence movement, Benny Wenda, for the second time, as well as his compatriot and fellow activist Serile. These two men are part of...
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Published 2 months ago

Exciting developments
Wow! We are totally gobsmacked by the number of people joining our Facebook group 'Build a school in Africa.' The interest in our project is overwhelming. It's interesting how many people want to help us with the project as well. Several teacher friends have expressed an interest in working in...
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Published 2 months ago

ZICS and the empowerment of teachers
ZICS will also operate as a beacon school within the Kazangula district offering a range of outreach projects to partner schools. ZICS will work with partners to promote the Continued Professional Development of teachers in partner schools, collaborative In Service Training provided by our most...
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Published 2 months ago

ZICS Summer School
ZICS will operate a summer school during closure in both December and August. Students for the summer school are to be drawn from across Africa and from Europe and North America. The summer school programme will be based upon issues relating to sustainable development, the arts, sports, the...
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Published 2 months ago

Outreach at ZICS
ZICS will not be cocooned from the wider community. ZICS will be a focal point for the empowerment of local people.ZICS will provide considerable employment opportunities for local people and as the school develops will serve as a focal point for lifelong learning within it’s vicinity through...
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Published 2 months ago

The unique nature of ZICS
The Thembinkosi Foundation exists to build and sustain Co-educational Catholic Secondary Schools in Sub Saharan Africa. We are not the only organisation committed to the building of schools in the region but we are one of a few organisations committed to ensuring the sustainability of the schools...
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Published 2 months ago