In the documentary Teach a Man to Fish Humphrey Kafula tells us how as a young teen he became utterly hopeless.  His home life was very bad and he had little chance of success at school. He could see no end to his misery.  He went out to a remote area planning to take his life, hoping he would never be found and bring shame to his mother.  While there he had a miraculous experience that made him realize that God cared for him.  He turned around and went home and in a very short time ended up being sponsored so that he could go to school.  He met a teacher that changed his life, filling him with hope and inspiration. His greatest desire in life then became his goal to become a teacher and share the light he gained from his education. Humphrey worked in the mines to save enough money, but couldn’t make ends meet. Eventually the Fund was able to send Humphrey to college. He was so happy he couldn’t express it.
Now Humphrey is a teacher assigned to a rural village. Now his dreams of bringing hope and happiness to hundreds of young African students has come true. In time he hopes to work his way up to being a High School teacher.

This is James Mumba in his home village surrounded by brothers and sisters and neighbors. He is holding a letter he has written to his sponsor that he would like a volunteer to take back with them to America. Postage is very expensive for him.  He is trying in his own way to express his profound appreciation for the opportunity he is being afforded. He is one of only a few people in his whole village that is able to move on to high school. His village is very poor.  Hee is an orphan, and his extended family is destitute. He so grateful that he is able to get  sponsored through Zambia's Scholarship Fund.  The whole village is excited for him. Without help from his sponsor he would never get an education, nor break out of the cycle of poverty in his family. He is the first student from his family to go to high school. He is been accepted to Mungwi Tech High School, a several days walk from his home village. But there he has a place to sleep and food to eat while he is learning.  His fondest hope is to become a teacher. He hopes that he can become a teacher and return to his own community to help others learn as well.  There is hope in his eyes and faith that he will have a better life.

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.

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.

Well of course that was a much bigger task than it seemed because 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.