I am an assistant headteacher at a girls' school. I teach Physics and am responsible for disadvantaged students and aspects of teaching and learning.

My Fellowship enabled me to carry out an inspection visit for a school trip to complete a community-based project in a village near Livingstone and support the completion of the project. The visit enabled me to risk assess the trip in situ and make links with the local press and television network to publicise the work that we would be completing.

My interest in the project stemmed from my association with an English couple living in Livingstone. Through my efforts and those of my students, we were able to build, over a number of years, an eight-classroom village school, a pre-school and a medical centre. The school is now funded by the Zambian Government. I am especially proud since, as a teacher, education underpins everything I do.

The Churchill Fellowship in Livingstone enabled me to convey and publicise what my students, fellow teachers and I were trying to achieve – it also provided the opportunity to seek out and meet with the district commissioner. I have been able to leave an educational legacy, of which I am immensely proud.