Although primary education is free in Zambia, the costs involved with providing children with school uniforms, shoes, books, pens and exam fees mean many families living on the breadline cannot afford to send children to school.

Cecily’s Fund enables more than 10,000 children who have been orphaned or made vulnerable, usually because of HIV, to go to primary and secondary school, with the same uniforms and equipment as other children, so they are not stigmatised by their situation.

We also fully support the running costs of a community school in Lusaka, where 756 highly vulnerable children are educated and fed daily.

Lesson Planning

There are a number of ways you can link work with Cecily’s Fund into your lesson planning.

KS1 & 2: Why not make this part of a whole school project? Lesson planning can include Geography, Citizenship, PSHE, Literacy and even Music and Science (Humans and other Animals, Living things in their Environment). This topic would fit in especially well if your school operates on the Creative Curriculum.

KS3 & 4:  Cecily’s Fund’s work can be incorporated across departments so makes an excellent awareness raising topic for the whole school. Study can fit in perfectly with the Identity and Cultural Diversity cross-curriculum dimension as well as fitting in with the National Curriculum key concepts for Science (cultural understanding, organisms, behaviour and health),  Geography (place, space, cultural understanding and diversity), PSHEE and Citizenship (Human Rights, Identities and Diversity)

To give pupils a sense of genuine connection with the people and place they are learning about, you could join our Bwafwano Linking Scheme.

Teaching resources

- Watch our 12 minute DVD - Introduction to Cecily's Fund

- Take a look at our short PowerPoint presentations:

• Primary School Presentation 
• Secondary School Presentation 
• Southern Africa Geography 
• Hubert case study

- Download and use our NEW information pack for schools

• Primary School Pack - packed with facts, pictures and activities to help primary school children learn about Zambia and the children Cecily's Fund supports.
• Secondary School Pack - 23 pages of information, activities and exercises to get pupils thinking about Zambia, poverty, health and human rights. It also provides a guide to fundraising - a great opportunity for the school to become a focal point for citizenship in the community. 
   

- Download our NEW Bwafwano Linking Scheme pack

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