The Zambia’s Scholarship Fund supports a continuous cycle of education in Zambia.
Success Stories
Our Company Mission
Zambia’s Scholarship Fund (ZSF)increases hope and establishes self-reliance by efficiently redistributing wealth to provide the people of Zambia access to their educational system. Education is a long-term solution to extreme poverty. One educated Zambian can benefit many, and even lift entire communities. Zambia’s Scholarship Fund’s circle of success works by:
a. providing certified, salaried teachers to rural and elementary schools;
b. providing high school and teacher’s college scholarships to needy students; and
c. providing books, school, and health supplies to communities in need.
Don't Handouts Promote Dependence?
We strive to promote self-reliance and self-confidence. The students are only given scholarships while in school. They are simply being prepared to contribute to society or specifically to teach others. Our work in the villages is simply to pay for the teachers that the government fails to be able to provide due to shortage of government funds. As a village school develops the government steps in with more resources. We are acting as a catalyst to make village schools more self-reliant. There is no expectation of long-term dependence on our assistance. It is all designed to prepare them to be self-sufficient. The documentary about Zambia’s Scholarship Fund, Teach a Man to Fish, makes this point clearly.
Is Our System Corrupted By Greed?
We work within the existing infrastructure of the country, stimulating their economy, and promoting their own independent local systems. Corruption of the system has been zero because the money is paid in the form of scholarships directly to private schools and colleges (and audited). Likewise, the books and materials are distributed by ZSF volunteers directly to the schools. Large sums of money do not pass through any individuals hands, nor does the government have any control over the money.
Lukasha Chitoshi is one lucky girl. Volunteers visited Kasama Girls high in March of 2008. At that time we were given the sad news that one of the girls on our program last year had died. Her sponsor in the US, Elaine Dezso from Seattle Washington, had send a package with us to give to her student. We told the Principal at Kasama Girls High School to pick a new girl to take Martha’s place because we had a gift from Elaine to her sponsored student.
There were so many students waiting to be on the program. The stress of having to make such a life altering decision for the girls on the list filled her face with grief. We told the Principal we had to go visit other schools but would be back in a couple of days. Let’s just say we were relieved not to have the burden of picking that day. It would have been hard to meet all those girls and send all but one of them home. When we returned she had chosen Lukasha. We sat down with Lukasha and told her about the program. She was elated at her good fortune. Then we told her about her sponsor back in America and how she had wanted her student to have a small gift from her. We watched her shaking hands open the gift. She was speechless as she looked at the pretty blue and silver necklace. This is a picture of that the necklace and the lucky girl.
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