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Fulfilment Tour Zambia 2025: The Impact, One Year On
In October 2025, a small team from DA Academy travelled to Lusaka.
If you have not come across us before, DA Academy is a UK-based coaching platform built on a simple conviction: every person carries something they were given for a reason, and most people go their whole lives without finding out what it is. Our work is helping people discover, develop, and deploy their God-given purpose.
The Fulfilment Tour is where that work leaves the screen. It started in the UK and has since gone further, and the mandate does not stop at any border. Wherever it takes us, the pattern is the same: we deliver the Fulfilment Course free of charge to anyone who desires to discover their God-given purpose and fulfil it. We visit orphanages, children's homes, schools, Churches, and community projects serving people most systems have forgotten, and we fund what we can.
Over one hundred people, and the question nobody asks them
The Fulfilment Course was the centre of the tour.
More than one hundred people came through it. Business owners. Church leaders. Students. People in their fifties who had built entire careers without ever stopping to ask the question underneath all of it: what am I actually here for?
It sounds like a simple question. In practice, most people never get to sit with it. There is always something more urgent. School fees. A job that pays. A family expecting a certain shape of life.
We spent the day there. Purpose is not something we assign to anyone; it was given long before we arrived. What we do is help people locate it, understand what it will cost them, and find the courage to move on it. They left with clarity. A year on, many are still walking in it, building and serving in places we will never see.
Bishop Ken, and the village nobody would go to
Some way outside Lusaka, in Chongwe, there is a rural village with no school and no hospital. It was not a place people went to. That is where we met Bishop Ken.
God sent him there to plant a church. On the surface it did not look like a promising town or a growing community. It looked like a place everyone else had written off. No infrastructure. No services. Nothing to build on and no obvious reason to try.
Against all odds, Bishop Ken made it his home and built the church.
Then he looked around. Children with nowhere to learn. The sick with nowhere to go. And he decided that was not something he could preach around.
So he started a school.
Forty children on a concrete floor
Standing inside the half-built classroom, Bishop Ken described what happens there now.
“So you could imagine, 40 kids all squeezed in here. No desks, no seats. They sit on the floor.”
Forty children in one room, sitting on concrete because there is nothing else to sit on. And they come anyway, every single day.
That is the part that stays with you. The shortage you could have guessed at, but the attendance is something else entirely: forty families in a village with nothing, sending their children to a building with no floor and no furniture, because a school without desks is still a school and the alternative is nothing at all.
The roof
When we first saw the City of Refuge School Project, run by Rural Ministries, it was block walls and open sky. Rooms marked out in concrete. Window openings with nothing in them.
It has a roof now.
Green sheeting runs across the full span, and the classrooms underneath are finally protected from the rains. It is not finished, and anyone walking past would still call it a building site, with no windows, no doors and no floors laid.
But a roof changes what a building site is. It stops the walls taking water, and it stops the work already done from deteriorating while the rest is funded. A roof is the difference between a project that is paused and a project that is dying.
K60,000 went towards it, given through the generosity of the individuals and organisations who sponsored the Fulfilment Tour.
We are now working with Bishop Ken to build more classrooms, so that forty children in one room becomes a sentence about the past.
Home of Happiness
Home of Happiness is a home in Lusaka for children with disabilities.
There is very little public provision for these children in Zambia, and where provision is absent, assumption fills the gap: that a child with a disability is a burden to be managed rather than a person with something to give. Home of Happiness exists to argue otherwise, on very little money and with very few people.
We spent an afternoon there, one of the first things we did after arriving in the country. We ate lunch with the children, played games, and stayed until the light went.
There was a reason it came early. All of our work rests on a single claim: that every person carries something they were given for a reason. That claim is easy to make in a full room to a hundred adults who came looking for it. It is worth considerably more if it holds in a home for children the world has already made up its mind about.
It holds.
Which is why we did not want to leave it at an afternoon. We brought food that day, and that fed them for a day. The gift we came with was meant to last longer than that.
It went towards the purchase of land, a permanent home for the children, made possible by the generosity of the individuals and organisations who sponsored the Fulfilment Tour. A home caring for children with disabilities should not have to wonder how long it can stay where it is, and land settles that question for good.
Fulfilment Tour Zambia 2026
A roof is not a finished school. Land is not yet a building. And a hundred people who found their purpose last October are still only a year into living it out.
That is why the Fulfilment Tour continues, and why we are looking forward to going back.
We return to Zambia from 8 to 18 October 2026, with a wider programme:
The Fulfilment Course, delivered free to anyone who wants to attend
A three-day crusade
Outreach to local orphanages, including a return to Home of Happiness
A dinner in Lusaka, honouring people whose work rarely gets noticed
We are also raising towards more classrooms at Bishop Ken's school, so that forty children in one room becomes a sentence about the past.
A word on how this is funded, because it is unusual and worth understanding.
Most events recover their costs from the people who attend. Ours cannot, because the people we are going for are precisely the ones a ticket price would exclude. So the tour is paid for in advance, by people who will never sit in the room. The money has to exist before the room does.
That is the whole model. It only works when it is funded ahead of time.
How to support the Fulfilment Tour
From the UK
D.A. Academy
Account number: 71865502
Sort code: 04-00-03
Reference: Fulfilment Tour 2026
From outside the UK
Account name: David Adabale trading as D.A. Academy
IBAN: GB48 MONZ 0400 0371 8655 02
BIC or SWIFT: MONZGB2L
Bank: Monzo Bank, Broadwalk House, 5 Appold St, London EC2A 2AG, United Kingdom
Reference: Fulfilment Tour 2026
Other currencies convert to pounds automatically on arrival.
To everyone who gave last year
Our work has three verbs. Discover your purpose, develop it, deploy it.
Almost everyone stops after the first. Discovery is satisfying and costs nothing. Development is absorbing and can be done privately. Deployment is the one that asks you to give something away with no mechanism for getting it back, which is why so many people who know exactly what they are here for never quite get round to it.
Bishop Ken did not stop. He was sent to a village with nothing and he is still building, having decided some time ago that the conditions were never going to improve on their own.
Neither did you. You sent money to a country you may never visit, for a school you will not see finished, for children who will never learn your name. There is no return on that. It is deployment in its plainest form.
The roof is up. The land is bought. A hundred people are walking in something they could not name a year ago.
That is what you did with what you were given.
God bless you richly,
David Adabale
Founder, DA Academy
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