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The School was established by the combined efforts of the missionaries and some Zambian Christians to provide secondary education for teenage girls of Kasempa and surrounding districts in North-western Province. This school was started in order to met the spiritual, social, physical and academic needs of the young women in the immediate community. By that time, the country was looking for ways to education the young women who had scarcely any western education at all.
The School was established by the combined efforts of the missionaries and some Zambian Christians to provide secondary education for teenage girls of Kasempa and surrounding districts in North-western Province. This school was started in order to met the spiritual, social, physical and academic needs of the young women in the immediate community. By that time, the country was looking for ways to education the young women who had scarcely any western education at all.


On the eve of the political independence of Zambia, towards the end of 1964, a group of leading Christians in the then Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) and in the Christian Brethren Missions, requested the leaders of AEF if they would open a secondary school for girls in Kasempa. The missionaries were assured that the government of the Republic of Zambia would be willing to support such a project. So it was approved. A committee was set up in 1965 to work towards this establishment.Since the Mukinge Mission Station was under AEF, working with the national Church, the Evangelical Church in Zambia, the present site of the school was chosen while it was still hilly.
===Formation of the school==
On the eve of the [[Independence|political independence of Zambia]], towards the end of 1964, a group of leading Christians in the then Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF) and in the Christian Brethren Missions, requested the leaders of AEF if they would open a secondary school for girls in Kasempa. The missionaries were assured that the government of the Republic of Zambia would be willing to support such a project. After approval, a committee was set up in 1965 to work towards this establishment. Since the [[Mukinge Mission Station]] was under AEF, working with the national church, the [[Evangelical Church in Zambia]], the present site of the school was chosen while it was still hilly.


It was bull-dozed down by the resident missionaries. The building materials and equipment were brought in and operated by expert missionaries with the help of the local people. The work was done under very difficult circumstances such as bad road conditions to transport the materials from the Copperbelt every time before the buildings of the school were built.The teachers for the school were drawn from various parts of the world, but they were to be Christians who were called to serve in this part of Africa. On the field, two (2) qualified missionary teachers (one from Mukinge mission Station and the other from Mutanda Mission Station in Solwezi, 160km away) were released from Primary School work to come for this project. Another teacher came from a teacher training college in Zimbabwe (the then Southern Rhodesia). At that time, the Scottish Mission was run by then a young lady who had formerly served in a school for the blind in Malawi. By the Lord’s plan, a missionary on furlough from Zambia presented to her the challenge of this new school. So, Miss Lisbelt Hodnett returned to Africa to head Mukinge Girls’ Secondary School in 1966.
It was bull-dozed down by the resident missionaries. The building materials and equipment were brought in and operated by expert missionaries with the help of the local people. The work was done under very difficult circumstances such as bad road conditions to transport the materials from the Copperbelt every time before the buildings of the school were built.The teachers for the school were drawn from various parts of the world, but they were to be Christians who were called to serve in this part of Africa. On the field, two (2) qualified missionary teachers (one from Mukinge mission Station and the other from Mutanda Mission Station in Solwezi, 160km away) were released from Primary School work to come for this project. Another teacher came from a teacher training college in Zimbabwe (the then Southern Rhodesia). At that time, the Scottish Mission was run by then a young lady who had formerly served in a school for the blind in Malawi. By the Lord’s plan, a missionary on furlough from Zambia presented to her the challenge of this new school. So, Miss Lisbelt Hodnett returned to Africa to head Mukinge Girls’ Secondary School in 1966.
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