Zambia Project March 2026

Dates
March 12 - 25, 2026
Location
Zambia
Participation Fee
TBD
What's Included

* Maps may indicate region where project will take place, not a specific site location.

Overview

Join Maranatha in Zambia and help us build a classroom block next to the Mwami Adventist Hospital, 18 miles from Chipata, Eastern Zambia.

In 1925, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Africa acquired a farm of 3,035 acres, on which the Mwami Mission Station was established. The farm had three streams, good soil, and pastureland that could support a small herd. It used to be a tobacco farm and had many of its original brick buildings. Some of these buildings were run down, but contained 200,000 good bricks that were used to construct new mission buildings. The Mwami Adventist Hospital was later established there, as an extension of the medical missionary work conducted at Malamulo Mission in Malawi. Mwami is located 30 kilometers southeast of Chipata, the capital city of the Eastern Province of Zambia. The mission was named after the Mwami stream, which flows through the property. Maranatha worked on several projects at the Mwami Hospital decades ago. And the Adventist Church in Zambia recently requested that Maranatha return to build a secondary school campus. It will serve a growing community and be the first school to offer secondary Adventist education in its Province.

Scope

School Construction – Block work

Outreach

Leaders
Susan Woods,
Project Coordinator
David Woods,
Construction Superintendent
Itinerary
Zambia Facts & Figures

CAPITAL

Lusaka

POPULATION

15.97 million

LANGUAGE

English (official) 1.7%, Bemba 33.4%, Nyanja 14.7%, Tonga 11.4%, many dialects

CLIMATE

Tropical; modified by altitude. Rainy Season: Oct to April

RELIGION

Protestant 75.3%, Roman Catholic 20.2%

CURRENCY

Zambian Kwacha

Entry Requirements
  • Passports valid for at least 6 months past return with two blank visa pages.
Medical Requirements & Precautions
Contact Us Want to speak with someone at Maranatha directly? Please call our office at 916.774.7700 to speak with a volunteer specialist. Alternatively, you can send us an email.

 

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