Lifasi Trust School is a community initiative project whose genesis is to help the underprivileged children in Lingulyangulya Village in The Western Province of Zambia to obtain their basic right to education.

Lifasi Trust School aims to provide free, holistic education to the orphans and community children whose families can't afford to attend send them to school.

The project is founded on the premise of community care and the spirit of Ubuntu in order to positively contribute to the development of Lingulyangulya Village.

In 2016 the founder of the school, Jimmy Kakoma from Lingulyangulya village in Mulobezi District in the Western Province of Zambia had a dream. To build the Lifasi Trust School in order to provide free, accessible and quality education for the children in his home village.

The foundations of the school are built on personal experience and hope. Jimmy did not have the chance to complete his education and had to leave school in Grade 7. This was due to the next secondary school being a great distance away from his home.

Since 2016 he has been working hard to make his dream a reality. He approached the village headman with the proposal of building the school, thereafter land was granted to him. The Lifasi Trust School was registered with PACRA (Patent and Company Registration Authority) in April 2021.

In 2023, the main objective of the Lifasi Trust School is to implement operational systems and frameworks that contribute to the financial sustainability of the instituion. This will be achieved through the implementation of Linosi Honey Project.

In the past, in order to generate income for the operational costs of Lifasi Trust School, Jimmy engaged local foragers to secure honey from wild bees in the Miombo Forests surrounding Lingulyangulya Village. The honey was then sold within the village and surrounding communities.

The honey harvesting methods employed by the local foragers are not sustainable as they require trees, in which the hives sit, to be felled.

Therefore the Linosi Honey Project is oriented around the development of a sustainable small scale apiary which will

1) Produce ethical honey for sale

2) Preserve the surrounding Miombo Forest

3) Train local Lingulyangulya Women in Beekeeping and Honey Production

In order for the Linosi Honey Project to launch, we need to raise funds which will be invested in the first phases of the project.

The first phase includes the building of 25 Kenyan Top Bar Hives. The Kenyan Top Bar Hive is one of the most effective natural bee hives for backyard and small-scale Beekeepers (Bee-carers).

This hive model is apicentic which means the bees are primarily valued as pollinators and secondarily, as honey producers. Rather than a focus on ‘taking from’ the bees, natural beekeeping is about ‘giving back.’

In this natural bee-centred approach, bees are allowed to construct natural combs, thereby determining their own cell size, population mix, colony size, and rear their own queens and Drones.

Instead of swarm suppression – a universal technique employed by most conventional beekeepers to prevent bees from leaving the hive and taking honey with them – biodynamic beekeeping allow and encourages the bee colony (the bee-ing) to express itself naturally by celebrating the swarm impulse and the re-birthing of new life

In addition to being apicentric, it is also a resource effective model as very few materials and minimal labour are needed to construct the hive

The funding secured from this fundraiser will propel the Linosi Honey Project which will contribute to the 2023 Objectives of:

- The continued employment of the current staff of the school (2 teachers, 3 security guards/maintenance staff and 2 cooks) and thus the education of the 18 pupils

- The building of a borehole to provide the school with clean water

- The erection of a fence to secure the area and preserve the forest around the school