Introduction

St Peter and Paul, Kaparu parish is located in the central province of

Zambia under the diocese of Kabwe. Kaparu parish is one hundred and four kilometres
from Lusaka town and one hundred and fourteen kilometres from Kabwe town.
Kaparu parish was started in the nineteen seventies by the Bethlehem missionaries
upon and the Society of African Mission fathers officially took over Kaparu mission
on the 25th of January 2015. We have currently two SMA priest working in Kaparu.
The parish is a rural parish scantly populated with the main activity being
small scale and subsistent farming presenting a vast square area of coverage for the
parish culminating to twenty-four out stations. These outstations are spread on long
distances with the nearest at eleven kilometres and the furthest at seventy-four
kilometres away. Communication is poor to the outstations with low or no phone
network coverage and bad roads. Many of the outstation are poor and still establishing
themselves with a low number in average of attendance and practicing Catholics. We
have active lay organisations at the parish that include, St Anna, St. Joachim,
Ludovico/Nazareth, Xaverians, Legion of Mary and Kalolo.

Problem identification
Many of the outstations are poorly constructed and some are praying in
thatched roofed chapel that are on the verge of collapse with the coming rains. An
example of one of this outstations is St Mary Mpampu outstations that I visited
recently. The Christians there are few and a poor. There are not able to raise the funds
for construction of a decent chapel. They are willing to provide the locally produced
clay burnt bricks and also collect sand that is locally available in the area. The main
challenge is acquisition of cement, timber and roofing sheets.
 Solution
We have begun the construction of the new chapel. We have laid and built the
foundation of the 20 metres by 8 metres chapel. The members of the outstation also
have farmed some soya beans that will be sold to help raise the labour cost for the
brick layer. We look forward with hope to have well-wishers to assist in the buying on
the building material that makes approximately 54 percent of the total cost. The local
community will participate in the construction by providing the sand, bricks and
paying for the labour of the construction.

We here in a photo of the current chapel of St Marys Mpampu outstation and

just be sides it we have began the construction of the new chapel. We also include the
bill of quantity for the construction of the new chapel.

Project manager
Fr Thomas Otieno, sma
Parish priest.
 Bill of quantity for construction of St Marys; Mpampu Outstation

Cost @
Net cost
Activity Material Quantity Unit
(kwacha)
(Kwacha)
Members of the
Digging the foundation 0
community
Burnt bricks for construction Burnt bricks 4500 2 9000
Laying the foundation with six
inch footing and three courses of cement 8bags 65 520
brick

Cement 10bags 65 650

Back filling the foundation box
and filling the foundation slab
200
Conforce wire square 970 2910
meters
Building the four walls measuring
Cement 30 bags 65 1950
20m by 8m
Construction of the 4inch ream
Cement 10bags 65 650
beam on the wall
150cm by 50cm 25 pieces 95 2375
Buying wood for the roofing
50cm by 50cm 20pieces 65 1300
Roofing nails five inch roofing nail 6kilos 24 144
Placing the roof o Roofing sheets 5m 40 pieces 88 3520
Fitting the windows window frames 6 frames 360 2160
Plastering the inside and outside
Cement 20bags 65 1300
the building
Finishing the floor Cement 4bags 65 260
Buying and ftting the 1 door
350 350
door frame frame
Fitting the door
Fitting the door and
1 door 460 460

24 panes
Buying clear glass for of 30cm 56 1344
Fitting the glasses on the windows the windows and putty by40cm
fitting
10kg putty 20 200

Paying the brick layer 8000 6000

Cost of labor
and carpenter
3000 3000
Transport of the
Transport 4500
material to site
Building and 10tn building sand 2800
 Grand total cost K.45393

1USD=9.12kwacha 45393 kwacha =4977USD