Maurigrace School

(MDGs- Gender empowerment, primary education, HIv/ AIDS)

About Us
Maurigrace Schools, a registered Community Based Organization in Zambia, provides a broad set of educational services to the Chifubu Township. Our intent is to provide education means for improving the lives of children, including orphans, and women in the community with the education they need to succeed.

The schools, currently housed in the same one-storey building, include a nursery and primary school (now extending up to grade 7), a small library for the community as a whole, and provides skills training for adults, focusing primarily on the guardians of orphans, women, and widows. The skill sets offered include carpentry, tailoring, and with hopes for expansion into technical and business training. Maurigrace also offers the community at large education on HIV/ AIDS, child abuse, women’s rights, and family health.


Our Community
The Chifubu Township was originally developed around the settlement for the staff running a brewery. With the closure of the company, the township of 43,000 people, despite already having electricity, water, and basic infrastructure, transitioned to subsistence farming of maize, okra, and cattle for living. This left most families to live collectively on less than a dollar a day. 68 percent of the populace is under eighteen years, a community of need, but also exceptional untapped potential.


Our History
In response to the needs of the Chifubu, local Maurice Kalalamoa began Maurigrace Schools in 2000. Now involving eleven fulltime staff, primarily teachers, 900 people are currently being impacted by the broad spectrum of educational and vocational services. Motivated by the Christian faith, and in direct response to the core needs of the people in his community, Maurice who works as the Executive Director, envisions replicating these programs to the surrounding rural areas, while still increasing the capacity for impact within Chifubu.