Kelvin Poho wanted to be a technician who worked with electrics ever since his father first took him to see one of Zesco’s plants as a young boy. “My dad was working there as a driver and he used...
In early 2020, First Quantum Minerals – through its Kansanshi Foundation – began funding a new training centre to provide women with jewellery-making skills, giving them an opportunity to become self-reliant. Adding value to copper from Kansanshi’s Solwezi-based mine...
The foundations have been laid for Zambia’s first official polytechnic, Chapula Polytechnic, a new state-of-the-art training centre that’s being constructed and equipped with funding from Kagem Mining Limited (Kagem) at a cost of ZMW 52.5 million (USD 2.5 million)....
This World Environment Day, we're sharing a few of our favourite stories about how mining companies and communities in Zambia are doing their part to protect – and, even, improve – the natural environment where they live and work.
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It's 7am and 13 young women are seated around a table in the centre of Nsanshi Art’s spacious workshop, sunlight streaming through the wide windows. Clamps and jeweller’s saws and torches lie on workstations around them, waiting for the...
We all know that mining activities can disrupt the land around mining sites. But how much do we know about the lengths that some mining companies go to rehabilitate this land?
This year, First Quantum Minerals (FQM) has committed to...
Many of us dream of a world in which girls are given as many opportunities as boys: opportunities to attend school, to stay in school, to be educated to the same standards and, ultimately, to fulfil their potential. But...
When President Hakainde Hichilema’s Government announced that, come 10 January 2022, education would be free for the country’s nearly 8 million children, it felt like a watershed moment to many Zambians, and a decision that would change the course...
If you find yourself at Solwezi’s Kyawama Market around 7am on a Saturday morning, you might catch a glimpse of ten young runners whizzing down the road towards their clubhouse at Kansanshi Foundation Institute, cheers of encouragement announcing their...
"It is difficult – if not impossible – to imagine a group, or a district, or a nation of people thriving without literacy. Basic literacy is, if we’re honest, a bare minimum: an essential building block of a much...
