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Nsobe Trust School’s Vision Developing the Nation’s human resources through education, personal empowerment and opportunity Without the ability to imagine a better life, children can not dream of one. Unless we can dream we can not hope and strive for better things A typical village home •No electricity •Firewood has to be cut and hauled in order to cook food • Water has to be fetched and carried from nearby streams or wells •No beds – families sleep on reed mats •Outdoor living exposes risk to malaria Nsobe Trust School beginnings Due to the lack of quality education children’s potential is wasted and their lives are committed to poverty. Nsobe Trust School was started in 2009 with 16 Pre-School children. Every year we add a grade, so there are now 56 children in pre-school, Grade 1 and Grade 2. We have promised these children that they will receive quality education up to Grade 12 Karen Pukuma 6 years old, Her mother died in childbirth – father unknown Raised by her Grandparents, who already have 9 children of their own Dorcas Mulunda •5 years old, Father died of HIV 2009 •Mother HIV positive and completely illiterate • 2010 their house burnt down with all their belongings in it •2 sisters HIV positive, Naomi 7yrs and Charity 2yrs old. •(both these girls are in Canadian funded care homes/schools , Seeds of Hope, as their mother is unable to feed them properly or administer their medicine and without proper nutrition and medicine they will die) •Dorcas is miraculously HIV negative Jaqueline Phiri •9 years old grade 1 •Was not allowed to attend school before as had to look after younger babies •Parents illiterate •Did not own a pair of shoes until we gave her some •On her first day her feet were covered with festering sores, full of splinters no one had ever bothered to remove, cold and starving What do you take for granted every day? •Running water and a toilet •Clean drinking water •A bed to sleep in •3 meals a day •Electricity •A cupboard of clothes •Access to medical care These children have none of these Life in rural Zambia is harsh and full of suffering. HIV/Aids is rampant, TB is a major problem, everyone lives with malaria, children suffer from malnutrition Average Life Expectancy is 38 years 10% infant mortality rate •Almost every child in the school has lost either a parent or a sibling. •Many of our children are orphans living with extended family •Most of our children’s parents and relatives are illiterate. Prior to the opening of Nsobe Trust School most of these children would not have had the opportunity to go to school Our Teachers Esther Musonda and Annie Yasapa One meal a day of starch and no protein is the normal diet in poor rural areas. Nsobe Trust Children are all given a nutritious meal during school. Nsobe Trust School helpers carrying breakfast porridge down to the classroom The children are flourishing in the school, loving the stimulation and finding out what fun it is to learn and to be a child. Through God, All things are Possible “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” W. B. Yeats “Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave” Ropo Oguntimehin Thank you for making a difference in these children’s lives, for giving them an opportunity to be fed, cared for and stimulated. With your help we can break the cycle of illiteracy and poverty, and offer these children a brighter future. Our drive is derived from our responsibility to God for these children, Giving all a brighter future in Zambia