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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.
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
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.
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.