The girls from St Mary's Secondary School for Girls in Chama District, Zambia, send their heartfelt thanks and gratutude to all donors and supporters of the school. They are loving having the opportunity to go to secondary school.
The Livingstone Initiative is involved in a number of significant projects to bring extensive benefits to communities across Zambia.
We are a registered charity working with communities, businesses,
the government and other organisations. We aim to benefit communities by improving health and creating secondary education opportunities for girls in remote rural areas of Zambia. By creating new opportunities, this helps improve the future of communities and in turn this helps to boost the local economy and improve lives in Zambia. We do this through support not only from the UK but also from within Zambia itself.
This is to ensure sustainability in future years.
We also believe that by encouraging communities and institutions in both countries to work together, this develops greater awareness, knowledge and a better understanding
of the different cultures between people in our countries.
Photo : Members of The David Livingstone Bicentenary & Livingstone 2013 Committee had the honour of being presented to HRH Princess Anne at a Reception to celebrate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee held at the Livingstone Museum, Zambia, on 28 September 2012.
Working with communities
The Livingstone Initiative considers that it is very important to involve the local community at all stages of development initiatives. This ensures that the initiative is needed and wanted on the ground. We value partnerships with local and international institutions for impactful collaborations. We have
worked hand in hand with a number of
individuals and institutions to bring all our projects to life. Our collaborative approach from the UK and within Zambia ensures lasting improvements and opportunities.
Supporting Girls' Potential
Empowering Girls
Together with the community, we are working towards creating lasting change and empowering girls for a brighter future. How are we achieving this? By helping the community to build its first secondary school for girls, in a very remote district of north-eastern Zambia.
A short video about The Livingstone Initiative's Chama Project... we have opened the first secondary school for girls in a remote district of north-eastern Zambia, where currently there over 52,000 women and girls who have had little or no access to an education beyond primary school. Instead they have faced an uncertain future of early pregnancies and child marriage. We are now expanding and developing this school year on year behind the first intake.
The Livingstone Initiative has been supporting the Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) Clinic at Livingstone Central Hospital since its conception back in 2012. We are doing this through our Livingstone Zambia-Scotland Medical Exchange. We first brought over to the UK a young doctor for a Clinical Attachment in ENT medicine with the help of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons Glasgow. This three-month attachment in Glasgow gave Dr Alex Malambo a good insight into ENT medicine, something he could not obtain at that time in Zambia.
Following his highly successful study and observership in Glasgow, the Zambian government then sponsored Alex's 5-year post-graduate surgical training in Nairobi. In 2020, Alex returned to Lusaka to take up his new post at The University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka as the first ENT surgeon in Zambia.
Thanks to Alex and the Zambian Ministry of Health there are now seven ENT surgeons in Zambia (three in the public sector and four in the private sector).
We are continuing to work with the Livingstone ENT Clinic by funding Alex's regular visits down to Livingstone, so that patients can be treated and operated on by specialist surgeons. On each visit he takes a trainee doctor with him and together they see patients who would otherwise not get the care they so desperately need. We have also sent across to Zambia extra medical instruments so that more operations can be undertaken during their week-long visits.
