Help Isaac find school near home

Dear Editor, ONE Isaac Musambazi is a seven-year-old Grade One pupil at Jacaranda Primary School in Rhodespark area east of Lusaka Central business District. Isaac stays with his biological mother Ireen Ngoma in the densely populated Chibolya Compound. The mother works at a local community tap. Guess what? Isaac goes alone to and from home to school every school day. Crossing roads like Lumumba, Freedom Way into Kulima Tower bus station, jumps on a bus with a K2 and drop at Civic Centre and usually crosses roads like Independence Avenue and Church Road among others and back home through the same route. It was in the morning yesterday when I was on a bus from UTH to Town when it stopped at Civic Centre to pick some more passengers when this innocent boy entered the bus and sat with us on the back seat. After the bus departed for town, I realised that he was alone. This situation touched my heart such that I had to abandon my programmes temporarily and escorted Isaac home. I know that he always moves alone but I wanted him to reach home safely. I wish I could do more for this future CEO. I wish those who can help this boy could do something urgently. Isaac goes to this distant school because he could not find space at the only school in Chibolya (Chibolya Primary School) and the neighbouring schools. Last but not the least, I’m sincerely appealing to the head at Chibolya Primary School, DEBS Lusaka which is a stone’s throw from Chibolya school, PEO Lusaka, General Education Ministry or indeed anyone who can help baby Isaac. -