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The Zambia’s Scholarship Fund supports a continuous cycle of education in Zambia.

Success Stories

Zambia's Scholarship Fund

What do we do in Zambia?

• We support education in the poorest and remote areas of Zambia by providing scholarships to students to attend high school (public education in Zambia is only free up to the seventh grade) and college.
  
  

• We hire teachers to teach elementary education in poor and remote villages that have gone without teachers for many years.
  
  

• We supply books, teacher's kits and other support materials to help our sponsored schools prosper.
  
  

• We send students to high school that otherwise could not afford to attend school at all.
  
  

• We send eager students to teacher's colleges and send them to teach in poor and rural villages.

  
  

Volunteers

The program in the United States is run entirely by volunteers. This is an enormous, but rewarding challenge. We are always in search of dedicated individuals to help raise money and awareness of Zambia's plight. We also are in need of people committed to paying their own way to Zambia, visit schools, distribute books, and interview students. Our volunteer efforts mean no money is wasted paying people in the United States when the money can be used in Zambia.

How Can I Help?

The most immediate way you can help is to make a generous donation. A little of your money goes so far in Zambia. Forgoing a night out for dinner can send a student to school and feed and board them for a month. Even the smallest donation makes a big difference. If you would like to volunteer in some way to help, please contact us at barbara4zambia@yahoo.com.

Our Beginning

 

Zambia's Scholarship Fund was founded by Peggy Rogers in 2000 after returning from a visit to Zambia to reunite with an African friend from college.

Peggy saw the poverty and need for education up close. She learned that Zambians desperately desire to obtain an education because they know that is the best way to raise themselves out of poverty.

Peggy started saving her own money to provide scholarships to Zambian students and started rallying others to her cause. She continues to run the program today which has now helped thousands of students. As Founder and President, Peggy insists that 100% of all donations go to help Zambians in need.

Peggy has also authored two books about her experiences in Zambia, with all proceeds going to Zambia's Scholarship Fund.

Founder
Peggy Rogers

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This is Chali Mwape receiving a text book. The story behind this picture is very moving. Chaali is a seventh grade student at one of the village elementary schools. His mother died during an operation and his father was somehow poisoned. He lives with his grandmother. Chali wants to grow up to be a doctor even though he knows this is a death sentence for him as most doctors eventually get HIV. He is an excellent student but has reached the end of his free schooling. He hopes that he will get some assistance to continue to high school. He thinks perhaps his uncle will help him. In the movie Teach a Man to Fish, Chali takes us on a tour of his home and tells us about his life. He walks two hours to school each day. He tells us that during parts of the year he gets very hungry and has nothing to eat for days. When asked what he does in this situation., he admits that sometimes he just cries. He says he wishes he had something to read when he is hungry; something other than the AIDS pamphlets he owns; omething to stimulate his mind and prepare him for being a doctor. A month or so after the filming of that interview, volunteers from the Zambia’s scholarship fund delivered 20 boxes of books to his school. This is a picture of Chali opening a textbook for the very first time.

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