25 ZSF sponsored nursing students graduate!

Speaking on behalf of others shortly after their historic graduation ceremony, duo of Lameck

Sizande and Thelma Kalesu, said that their life story is incomplete without the mention of

Zambia’s Scholarship Fund.

“As graduates have promising job opportunities in both the public and private health sectors, we

shall therefore directly contribute to a stronger health workforce in our communities and nation

at large”, said Mr. Sizande.

And Ms. Kalesu added that they would not have graduated as nurses without the support of

ZSF and its donors from the USA, saying they are from poor families that could not afford to

send them to college.

“Today we are certified Nurses, Midwives and Public Health Nurses courtesy of ZSF, this

organisation paid our tuition fees for three years. We thank it so much and appeal to its funders

in the USA not to relent, but continue to touch countless lives of poor Zambians”, said a jovial

Ms. Kalesu while waving her just obtained Diploma.

Since its founding in 1999 by Peggy Rodgers, a USA national, after she visited Zambia and

witnessed challenges that children from poor families in the Northern Province face in accessing

education, Zambia’s Scholarship Fund has sponsored and continues to sponsor thousands of

vulnerable but viable children at secondary and tertiary level many of whom are now in

employment and contribute to the well-being of their families, communities and country at large

in many spheres of life.

In the pictures below, some of the 25 graduates are captured posing for group photos that also

feature two ZSF officials – Tobias Mangani & Ivy Kapole who attended the graduation to offer

moral support!