Lushomo Community School in Monze town was started in 2003 by the local Headman. 

In May 2012 the community asked Charles Dinda from Zambia Women and Girls Foundation and Deana Owen for help building new classrooms. Half the pupils were orphans and there were no Government paid teachers.

Bridgend Quakers helped Deana set up Friends of Monze charity to build Lushomo School.

In September 2014 we drilled a bore hole and started building our first 3 classrooms. Then in January 2015 the walls from the old building collapsed. The PTA borrowed a tent so lessons continued.

There were great, all day celebrations when the school was finally handed over to the Department of Education.

Over the next couple of years we installed a solar water pump and built 4 showers for the girls at the school and provided them with menstrual training and pads so that they would not have to miss school. WASH hygiene training was taught throughout the school and community.

The garden teaches the children valuable life skills to help feed them and their families and to generate income.

In 2019 3 new classrooms were built in order to have classes going up to grade 9. 

Lushomo school now teaches 613 vulnerable children from the nearby compounds.

We gave Lushomo school curriculum and story books, desks, sports equipment and drums so pupils learn traditional dancing.

We provided laptops, projectors and remote learning hot spots to enable all children to receive an education.

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