Supporting the Community at Nyangombe
Nyangombe works alongside the Lunda community to support development and progress.
Over the years Nyangombe Christian Training Centre has established and sustained a variety of community projects that continue to this day. These programmes include primary education, farming and IT training, a community health post and farming support to the community and pastors based in remote rural areas.
This work has transformed the lives of the community in this area over the last 3 decades.
Kahanda School
Kahanda Primary School was built by builders from Nyangombe and provides a free primary education to children in the community. The pre-school at Nyangombe that was started by Rachel Haigh many years ago, feeds students into the primary school and many have gone on to qualify as teachers and nurses. It has been a great success.
Nyangombe Rural Health Post
Nyangombe Health Post began as a simple dispensary for the community in the area but has since expanded to provide ante-natal, maternity and nutrition services to 2,000+ people. Nutritional support is given to orphans and vulnerable children from the community.
Farming Support and Animal Husbandry
Over the past twenty years agriculture was taught at Nyangombe. The results of learning the best ways to plant crops and the encouragement to ‘think big’ has seen an almost 1,000% increase in maize production from subsistence farming fields. The breeding & training of oxen to pull ploughs and ox carts has contributed to some amazing harvests gathered by local people.
The families work very hard indeed and they have been blessed with good harvests enabling them to send children to college and to buy extras for the home which make life easier. Many who work at Nyangombe have purchased calves and merged them with our cattle herd. Today with Nyangombe cattle and local people’s cattle we are running around 250 head. Our spray race which reduces tick borne diseases is free to anyone with oxen and this has been so successful that owners now seldom lose an animal.
The pigs in the Mwinilunga area came from Nyangombe stock which has been the major supplier for breeding stock in the area. All support and training from Nyangombe to local people in agriculture or animals husbandry is directed at assisting local farmers to reach their own full potential as rural, subsistence farmers.
