Justin Mukuka, Lori Kimball and Brenda Bauer – The Hope Academy

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Justin Mukuka, Lori Kimball and Brenda Bauer

In 2006 Justin Mukuka of Kitwe, Zambia together with Lori Kimball and Brenda Bauer of Rancho Bernardo, California pledged to ease the burden felt by the poverty stricken community of Kitwe, Zambia. Justin Mukluk, a native Zambian, committed himself to changing a major piece of the city’s environmental condition by creating the Isubilo (Hope) Academy. Growing up in Zambia, Justin knows firsthand what it is like to be one of 12 children orphaned in his own family. Deprived of modern amenities he struggled to stay alive while laying his mother and many of his brothers and sisters to rest.  When Justin was a teenager an American encouraged him to pursue his education and he later graduated from Copperbelt University becoming a positive example for the orphaned children of the land, of God’s grace and the benefits of hard work.  Justin has made it his life’s passion to rehabilitate his community, starting with the children.  The Isubilo Academy is spreading a message of hope to this land by providing progressive health care and a comprehensive opportunity to receive a quality education crucial to breeding new leaders for the country’s future.

At the same time more than 10,000 miles away Lori Kimball and Brenda Bauer, two accredited U.S. Teachers with over 20-years experience are committed to helping Justin’s dream become a reality by providing the basic educational material necessary to bring a higher level of learning.  Lori and Brenda spear headed a $10,000 fundraising effort to purchase a lap-top computer for an onsite administrator and travel expenses to send an architect and administrative associate to survey the land and the Isubilo Academy, as well as and helped establish a temporary library for the Isubilo Academy by petitioning a book drive.  By focusing on orphans and children with life-threatening illness, Lori and Brenda are proof that religion alone does not make people holy.  On the contrary, it is authentic acts of love, mercy and embracing a positive attitude powerful enough to transform lives and restore hope.

Isubilo (Hope) Academy

As many as 50 people, adults and children die each day due to AIDS and Malaria in Kitwe, Zambia.  With their last breathe, they leave behind innocent children who are literally living hand to mouth, destined for a life of poverty, disease and ignorance.  The oldest child is left to make arrangements for their parents’ body to be wrapped in a blanket and buried in a shallow makeshift grave.  A stick or rock indicates the deceased’s name and date. Then the oldest child is obligated to care for the remaining children, sometimes as many as 10 or more.

With no government assistance, no viable healthcare system, an 85% unemployment rate, and 50% of the country’s population under the age of 25, statistics project that at the current rate there will be no adults left by the year 2022 to lead the country.  It is the sincere desire to the Isubilo (Hope) Academy to extend an arm of hope by educating Zambia’s potential leaders and equipping the abandon children with impartial knowledge, practical education, health and nutritional instruction, and essential details about hygienic behavior.  Not only will it ensure the survival of citizenship, but create a powerful transformation from a primitive, economically depressed way of life to an educated, healthy lifestyle that was once the norm.   Click Here to donate to the Isubilo (Hope) Academy.

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