Community Pathway
Getting your school, church, NGO, or business online — with honest pricing and a working admin dashboard.
If you have never had a website built before, there are five things that go into every project. Understanding them upfront means no surprises later.
Your address on the internet — like yourschool.edu.zm. Registered through a provider, renews every year.
The design, the pages, and the coding — including an admin dashboard so your staff can update things themselves.
Before anything goes live, we test it and walk through a working version with you first.
Professional email addresses on your own domain — like info@yourschool.edu.zm.
Keeping your website actually running, year after year. We handle this for you.
Your domain (for example yourschool.sch.zm or yourchurch.org) always belongs to your organisation — it is registered in your name, not ours. You can buy it from any registrar you like. These are the ones we trust:
| Registrar | Best For | You Pay In |
|---|---|---|
| Infratel | All Zambian .zm domains (.co.zm, .org.zm, .sch.zm, .edu.zm and more) | Kwacha |
| Cloudflare | International domains like .com and .org — the easiest to connect to our hosting | US dollars (card) |
| GoDaddy | International domains like .com and .org | US dollars (card) |
Prices are set by each registrar and change over time, so please check their websites. Look at the renewal price as well as the first-year price — they are often different.
Domains must be renewed every year. Renewal is your organisation’s responsibility — we will remind you before it is due.
Come to us with at least three possible domain names in order of preference. Domain names are first-come, first-served — your first choice may already be taken.
There is an important difference: email storage is space for your inbox. Drive storage is shared space for documents and files, like Google Drive. Google, Microsoft and Zoho bundle both together.
Every website is priced in two parts: a one-time Foundation Fee based on your organisation type, and the pages you choose from our catalog.
Covers your Home page, admin dashboard, domain connection, hosting setup, testing, working preview, and staff training. Charged once.
All income from Digital Pathways goes back into RISE Ubuntu’s non-profit work. No individual profits from it.
Choose only the pages you actually want. Every catalogue price is fixed. Anything not listed is priced by matching it to the closest page type below.
Build time depends on how many pages you choose and how complex they are. As a baseline for a typical project:
These are starting estimates — we will confirm an exact timeline once we know which pages you have chosen.
Once you have chosen your tier and we have agreed on your pages and pricing, a single named person from Pathways will be assigned as your main point of contact for the entire project — from the first conversation through to launch and the 30-day post-launch support window.
This is usually the same person who will actually be building your site. You are not passed between different people or having to re-explain your needs partway through.
Not looking for a brand-new build? If your organisation already has a website that feels old, is hard to update, or doesn’t work well on phones, we can help you refresh or upgrade it to a modern site. Tell us what you have and we will talk through the options with you.
Contact Pathways →Come with an idea of the pages you would like, and at least three possible domain names in order of preference. We will take it from there.
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