A CHARITY based in Mid Argyll is looking forward to a brighter future after being offered a plot of land in Zambia.
Operating around the Mthunzi area in the southern African nation, ZamScotEd supports the education of vulnerable young people. The charity is busy building a secondary school in Lusaka West, offering children at four nearby elementary schools the opportunity to reach grade 12. St Columba’s school is run day to day by the Teresian Sisters, a group which runs a number of successful schools in Malawi and Zambia.
One of the founders of the ZamScotEd is Marian Pallister, who told the Advertiser: ‘We now have one and a half blocks up.