People of Zambia

They Need Your Help

Brief Economic History

Zambia broke away from the UK owned area of Southern Africa in 1964. By this time, the

population had been introduced to advances in the mining industry, and discovered that they had an

enormous abundance of copper, which became the critical export for their economy. In the mid-1970s, Zambia suffered a great decline in their supply of

copper, crashing their economy. More recently, they began finding more copper in their mines and are on

an extremely slow economic rise.

Brief Political History

Since their break from the UK owned African land, Zambia has always had political issues within their country. Zambia is a Republic, meaning that they

elect a new President every so often, but the President is not permitted to change or create new rules that are already established in their culture or constitution. So far, all of the Presidents of Zambia

have focused all of their area of work on copper mining. This has caused uprisings in the population, stating that they were being worked like slaves. All of these rebellions have been stopped and nothing

has changed for the work force.

Zambian Education

The people living in Zambia are provided with an unfairly low amount of education. Their education

primarily consists of learning to perform basic construction tasks and, practically, sweatshop-like work. There is very little education in the subjects that we people living in the U.S. receive, such as Mathematics, English (Language), Science, etc. They are not at all provided with the teaching of

basic hygiene, which causes diseases and infections to run rampant throughout the country.

Infrastructure

Due to Zambia's recent economic burst in the

copper industry, Zambia has slowly been able to begin

establishing better infrastructure. Not ten years

ago, however, it was in shambles. As long as their copper industry holds up,

they will be able to continue improving the country's state

of infrastructure.

Zambiavs.

United States

AreaUnited States

9,826,675 km

Zambia

752,618 km (8% of United States)

Population

United States

1,205,073,612

Zambia

13,817,479 (1.1% of United States)

Why are these important to keep in

mind?

Death Ratio

United States

8.39/1,000 population

Ranked 86 largest ratio in the World.

Zambia

12.42/1,000 population

Ranked 26 largest ratio in the World.

% of People Living With HIV/AIDS

United States

0.6%

Ranked 64 Largest Percentage in the World

Zambia

13.5%

Ranked 6 Largest Percentage in the World

# of Deaths from HIV/AIDS

United States

17,000 Deaths

Ranked 18

Zambia

45,000 Deaths

Ranked 10

Some efforts have been made to try to help Zambia, most of these efforts coming from the US. We have built a couple of small schools within different areas

of Zambia. We have also tried assisting them to develop agriculturally.

This is not enough

The Plan:

Phase I

I am proposing that we citizens of the US, petition to popular fast-food and dine-in restaurants to donate 5% of all total costs of an order to a new program called “Dollarz for Zambia”. This program will

dedicate all raised funds toward projects to build bigger schools to accomodate more children and

host more classes. Funds will also go toward refurbishing Zambian communities, which will

include house construction, preparation of suitable farmland, and planting of vegetation.

Phase II

I plan to help create an entire new program for people in the US that are out of work. The program's name is “Tutoring Teachers”. In this program, people can apply to take short, free classes in the field of basic teaching. Participants will be taught how to teach a subject of their choosing between Basic to Semi-

Advanced Mathematics, Basic Science, Basic English and Grammar, and Health.

Phase II (continued)

Other optional teaching classes will be basic wood-working, basic metal-working, agriculture, and other

occupation-based classes. These classes are recommended to be taught by individuals with work

related experience in these particular fields.

PARTICIPANTS MUST BE WILLING TO TRAVEL TO ZAMBIA FOR A PERIOD OF AT LEAST

THREE MONTHS

Results of the Plan

By educating and establishing a basic infrastructure of housing and agricultural land, we will be able to

give Zambia the ever so needed boost to develop. Through educating the people of Zambia, we will

give them the ability to assist in the further progression of their country. By setting up a basic infrastructure, the newly educated students will be able to lead their country toward becoming more

self-sustaining and successful.

The final goal of this plan is to promote education, good health, progression and overall well-being of

the population of Zambia.

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