2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
10. 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.
11. % 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
12. # of Deaths from HIV/AIDS
United States
17,000 Deaths
Ranked 18
Zambia
45,000 Deaths
Ranked 10
13. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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
19. 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.
20. The final goal of this plan is to promote education,
good health, progression and overall well-being of
the population of Zambia.
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