{"id":37198,"date":"2010-10-27T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=37198"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:30","slug":"kaluba10-pfweekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/27\/kaluba10-pfweekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaluba &#039;10 returns to discuss development projects in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/10\/web-091007_kaluba_7673.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/10\/web-091007_kaluba_7673-245x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Chomba Kaluba &#039;10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chomba Kaluba &#8217;10 gives the presentation <em>Literacy and Microfinance for Sustainable Development and Peace<\/em>, explaining his work with a Zambian nonprofit organization that he founded and directs, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Homecoming.xml\">Homecoming Weekend<\/a> presentation at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kaluba, of Mpika, Zambia, launched the Kachlite Foundation to empower communities to help themselves through sustainable microfinance projects involving livestock and agriculture. The foundation also promotes literacy as a tool to wipe out hardship and bring sustainable development and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Zambia, he was inspired by the work of Peace Corps volunteers from Maine. As a Bates student, he seized opportunities to make a difference in both Maine and struggling communities abroad.<\/p>\n<p>At Bates, Kaluba twice received national Davis Projects for Peace awards. In 2008, he shared an award with other students to help establish a community garden in Mwanza, Tanzania, to fight the food-for-sex trade. A 2010 award enabled him to advance a microfinancing initiative and a literacy initiative for elderly widows in rural Zambia during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>In his talk at Bates, Kaluba will discuss his experiences in Zambia and his plans for the foundation. Students interested in volunteering with the Kachlite Foundation can arrange a meeting with him at this chomba@kachlitefoundation.org.<\/p>\n<p>Kaluba today is pursuing a master\u2019s degree in conflict and development at the School for International Training, and hopes to make his career in international and human rights law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chomba Kaluba &#8217;10 gives the presentation Literacy and Microfinance for Sustainable Development and Peace, explaining his work with a Zambian nonprofit organization that he founded and directs, in a Homecoming Weekend presentation at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,220],"tags":[10771,5360,5944,7213,7447,9434],"class_list":["post-37198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-service","tag-africa","tag-literacy","tag-microfinance","tag-projects-for-peace","tag-reunion-weekend","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87418,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37198\/revisions\/87418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}