The Zambia’s Scholarship Fund supports a continuous cycle of education in Zambia.
Books and Documentaries
Warning, you will be moved by these materials!
You will enjoy these materials, but you will also be changed by them.
If you promise not to waste them, we would be happy to send you a complimentary copy,
please email more@zambiasscholarshipfund.org with your requests.
Foreign Flowers
Foreign Flowers is Peggy’s second book detailing her daunting struggles and trials to build a working program in Africa. With vivid and entertaining stories she takes you on her journey into Africa along with her ragtag group of volunteers, distributing books and support to the schools and students. In the process her life, her marriage, and her spirits are renewed in unexpected ways. Her books are intensely personal and gripping accounts of a common woman’s struggle with uncommon events, but the most universal of human feelings. |
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Teach A Man to Fish
This is a full-length documentary about Zambia’s Scholarship Fund. This documentary shows what life is like in rural Africa generally, taking you into the most intimate details of life. It especially focuses on what school is like there. With vivid examples, following real students we learn the real impact education is having on them. The overarching story is told through the eyes of a high school student, Jacob McLaws, attending an affluent American high school and contrasts his experience with the experience of Zambian students. The documentary is both educational and entertaining as you learn about the lives Humphrey, Memory, Chawli, and others. It is excellent for families to watch together and for classroom viewing as well. |
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Heart to Heart World's Apart
Peggy’s first book was written in a desperate attempt to find a way to raise some money to support more students. It turned into a brilliant story of the transformation of a young mother from a small town in Utah. The story of a small, blonde, white woman traveling alone the remote villages of sub-Saharan central Africa is a most remarkable journey not only of unusual experiences but life transforming views of how the most extremely poor of the world live and what they dream of. This book chronicles the events leading up to the founding of the Zambia’s Scholarship Fund and is a most remarkable story of how one regular person decided to make a difference in the world. |
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Edith Mfula is the first student from Chabala Village to attend high school. This year she is graduating from high school.
Chabala Village has always held a special place in the heart of our program. After starting the Zambia Scholarship Fund, Peggy’s daughter applied to the Peace Corp and was assigned to Zambia. You can’t pick your location and the Peace Corp had no idea the family had any involvement with Zambia. But there was Peggy’s daughter, Jenny, living in Chabala Village and learning the language of the local tribe and proving instrumental to some key events in the success of the program. You can read about that in detail in Peggy’s book Foreign Flowers.
Jenny reported that the village had no steady teacher. And while Jenny filled in where she could, no child was able to ever pass the high school entrance exams, let alone have the money to go to school. In 2004, ZSF began their adopt-a-school program. The first two teachers to be adopted by the ZSF were sent to Chabala Village. Edith Mfula was one of many students taught by those two teachers until she was able to pass her high school exams. In 2005 she was sent to Chinsali Girls High and was sponsored by Betty Lewis. Betty has sponsored Edith through all of her high school years. In 2008 Edith became the first student to graduate high school from Chabala village. We took this picture of Edith at Chinsali Girls high and brought it to her mother at Chabala village. I wish there was a way for me to share with you the joy that welded up in that proud mothers face, even more I wish I could share with you that scene of tears.
Congratulations Edith!