Open for business and business is brisk! At long last the two ZAP-trained mechanics are employed in running the brand new Jambiani Fundi Autoworks, ZAP's most ambitious project so far...
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A group of young people have just climbed Kilimanjaro, and will be donating a portion of their sponsorship to ZAP. We were delighted to meet them in Jambiani and show them some of our projects in the village...
Just back from Zanzibar, Janet reports on another excellent trip by students and teachers from Headington School, Oxford in which they visited ZAP projects including the Nursery Schools and the Academy...
We are absolutely delighted to report that Andrew Morrison and his daughter, Annie del Mar have raised well over £2,000 between them for ZAP.
At long last the building of the garage has been finished
The 5th edition of our Newsletter is now available on the website. In this issue we have included a pie chart to show exactly how ZAP funds are spent, demonstrating the big difference that our small charity is making to an incredibly poor African village.
Many congratulations to Sophie de Winton who ran her first ever London Marathon this year, raising over £5,000 for ZAP in the process...
Joe and Mary Braitch have now joined the ZAP team, and they paid their first visit to Jambiani in February. Read all about it here...
Each year, in the Company Accounts, we submit an Annual Review of Charitable Activities. Giving an overview of ZAP's projects, the recent Review can be found at...
'Hi Mama Janie....I started my course on November 1st and I frankly appreciate your support since I have come all this way from Jambiani...
Sophie de Winton, our runner in this year's London Marathon, is also organizing a Quiz Night in Brancaster Village Hall to help raise funds...
Great news! We are well on our way to our target of Regular Giving donations - a big thank you to all who are supporting us this way...
The ZAP website has proved an invaluable tool, and we have now moved the 'hosting' to Innershed...
We are delighted to welcome two new supporters to ZAP who are about to visit Zanzibar, taking particular interest in the new Jambiani Autoworks, the Fundi Workshop, and the water pump....
ZAP has five key projects. To sustain them we need 100 people to regularly give just £10 a month. Could you be one of them?
Janie, Mark and Julie (Coley) flew out to Zanzibar at the end of November for a short but hectic field trip. Here is their update on ZAP's current 5 key projects....
Although this may be months away, we can already announce with pride that Sophie de Winton (aged 48) is taking up ZAP's allotted running space to run her first Marathon for us next Spring. Even better news is that Reeve Flooring is to sponsor Sophie and ZAP ...
Would you like to visit Zanzibar? Now is your chance with this very special offer involving ZAP in conjunction with Zanzibar Travel. Come and see what ZAP is doing, including a guided tour of all ZAP projects - and have a great holiday too!
Two highlights of this summer's visit: Firstly, we were thrilled when Wadhifa a young male nurse whose four year training was fully funded by ZAP - arrived for his first day at the clinic. Secondly, two days before we were due to fly home to the UK, we received an urgent request from a documentary film crew from California...
From initial plans in September 2009, the visit to Jambiani of 11 CAS4ZAP girls (from Headington School, Oxford in their International Baccalaureate year) and 4 teachers went extremely well. ZAP Jambiani students from Form V and VI in Stone Town came back to the village for a week to be hosts and partners for the visiting 'team' ...
Under the supervision of Mr Vuai, the fundis continue to be fully occupied, either on short-term contracts or on-the-job training. However, we have had to make a major change in plans for the motor mechanics to work from custom-built premises in the village. Read a full report here...
The new Academy goes from strength to strength, and we were able to see at first hand the work of Mr Vuai and Mr Suha in both academic and IT tuition. This excellent facility is used by locals of all ages...
This summer we were able to check on progress at the new ZAP 'boarding house', which provides accommodation and study areas for ZAP-sponsored students in further education in Stone Town...
"Each day at low tide, if you look out towards the distant reef, you will see a stunning panorama stretching along the sheltered lagoons.....upwards of 200 women toil for hours in a dazzling tableau of blue sky and glittering muddy sand..."
Zoe Thompson is taking part in the Great North Run on 19th September, running a half-marathon for ZAP.
The visit to Jambiani of 11 CAS4ZAP girls (from Headington School, Oxford) and 4 teachers went extremely well. ZAP Jambiani students from Form V and VI in Stone Town came back to the village for a week to be hosts and partners for the visiting 'team' who had raised the amazing sum of £3,836. This is the first hand report from one of the girls.....
Andrew, Pat, Janie and Janet are just back from a highly successful field trip to Zanzibar. We were delighted with the progress of our slimmed-down projects particularly in the area of higher education where we give support to nearly 20 students from Jambiani currently studying in Stone Town and living in the new ZAP Boarding house.
Last summer Lucy Kerr, a teacher at Ludgrove Preparatory School, was part of the amazing North2South sponsored cycle ride. A glutton for punishment, Lucy has now undertaken to do a sponsored swim on 20th June.....
Plans are well under way for 11 sixth form girls from Headington School, Oxford to visit Jambiani for a week in July. They are working hard to raise funds to support their contemporaries in high school in Zanzibar, and ZAP has organised for them to be partnered and mentored by students of the same age and ability.
Isobel Ramsay, a friend of Pat and Janie's from Norfolk, travelled to Zanzibar with a party of medical students from the UK in April. They spent some time at Mnazi Moja Hospital, and then based themselves in Jambiani. Isobel has written this interesting and informative report....
Emily Gerard-Leigh, one of ZAP's original volunteers completed the London Marathon and raised over £2000. It was a particularly gritty effort as she was suffering from a heavy cold; we are so grateful to her and to all the ZAP supporters who so kindly sponsored her THANK YOU!
Izzi Wren's father wanted her to experience at first hand what life is like for her contemporaries living in very different circumstances in rural Africa, so he took her to Jambiani during the Easter holidays. The contrast between her fortunate circumstances and those of Jambiani school girls is brought out in a moving account of her impressions...................
Great news! After three months of terrible hardship, power has been restored to the island......
For the first time, Jambiani has its own Community Academy, which also houses ZAP's Internet and lending Library. The decision to focus on higher education and free private tuition is a big step forward...
The news from Jambiani continues to be extremely grim. Still no power = no water. There are more cases of cholera in the village this week, with the death of a 19 year old man....
ZAP supporters who are on our mailing list, will know that a major health crisis has developed in Zanzibar because there has been a complete power cut to the whole island since December 10th. The power comes from mainland Tanzania via a system which has completely broken down on the Zanzibar side. Efforts to repair it have failed, and full restoration of power is not now expected for a long time......
An extremely successful Quiz Night was held in Norfolk at the end of January, with 190 participants. A grand total of £8,000 was raised and great fun was had by all...
A big welcome to Mark Coley, recently retired financier, who has joined the board of ZAP Directors. He and his wife Julie won a holiday to Jambiani in the Golf Day raffle three years ago. Mark's wisdom and business experience will be invaluable, and he hopes to visit Jambiani this autumn.
An innovative Tradesmen's co-operative has now been established in Jambiani to form a central base for the seven village young men whom ZAP has supported through three years of technical training. A chronic shortage of skilled workers able to take advantage of any economic growth prompted this ground-breaking initiative. The first fully qualified plumbers, electricians, motor mechanics and refrigeration/aircon engineer have started work already, amid glowing reports from employers.
Retired volunteer business-man, Marcus Collie spent several months setting up ZAP's young tradesmen in business at the Jambiani Fundi Workshop. Read his latest report here....
