**Above is Samuel's photo, you can read about Samuel's story here.**

Find out about Ngoli

Ngoli is a typical rural village in Northern Zambia. There are 10,000 people in the catchment, 25% of whom are under five years of age.

 Malaria, childbirth, AIDS, TB and cholera challenge day to day life.

Almost everyone in Ngoli is a subsistence farmer; the best paid job in the private sector pays $40 a month for 26 days work but these jobs are rare.

By way of contrast, a qualified teacher or nurse will earn as much in a month as these workers earn in a year.

We help support the school and the health centre and we also provide scholarships to ‘vulnerable but viable’ students, giving bright children the possibility to break out of the poverty trap.

In the past we have built houses for teachers, reconstructed the health centre and provided equipment for the school and health centre (from books to beds, chalk to chairs and laptops to gold leaf electroscopes). We source locally, thereby also feeding money into the local economy.

Scholarship Program at Ngoli

Each year we take a group of children with potential. These are selected by the teachers and all are considered ‘vulnerable but viable’.

They all come from subsistence farming backgrounds, most have lost a parent; all are bright but none can afford to pay for a secondary education (in Zambia this is not free).

From this group we try to select between one and three students who are offered a variety of scholarship opportunities, for example:

A scholarship to the secondary school in the local town for Grade 9 pupils.

A scholarship to stay on at Ngoli High School, for Grade 9 puplis.

A scholarship to college, for Grade 12 pupils

​As of September 2019 twenty students are currently active in the program. Here is how they are doing:​

• Samuel – finished third year at Rusangu University Bachelor of Education. Find out about Samuel's story here

• Sula and Victor – finished second year at Chengelo nursing college

• Christopher, Tenant and Patience – first year nursing college.

• Francina, Friday, Brian and Yvette - awaiting college places - Francina's grades were good enough for her to apply to Medical School.

• Memory, Maybin, Lloyd, Cornelius, Christabel, Nicholas and Fredrick – all progressing well through secondary school

• Prisca – about to start secondary school in Kasama

• Moses - starting secondary school in Ngoli

• Victor – re-sitting secondary school exams

​​A year at secondary school costs £420, while a year at nursing college costs £2,120 and a year at university costs £1,600 – this is an impossibility for these students’ families, but together we can help these children fulfil their potential.

​These students want to work, and when they achieve employment much of their salary is used to support their extended families, ensuring the benefits of education trickle down to the wider community.

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