Our child sponsorship program serves rural villages in Mpongwe, Mayobo and Macha.While these children are often from single-parent homes, living in poverty situations, or struggling with special education needs – we are inspired by their tenacity, their future dreams, and their hunger for education.
For each of the 3 school terms, one of our Zambian staff travels to meet with the teachers, the parents, and check on students. Because it is a rural sponsorship program, we are going into tribal areas which are not always easy to get to, sometimes roads are blocked due to flooding.
Sometimes our students need to be set up with extra tutoring, or have unmet needs related to grade advancement (such as needing a mattress, cooking supplies, etc). We meet with parents who need help gaining extra resources. We exchange the letters from the sponsors and see report cards, as well as check on how students are doing socially and emotionally. Our mentoring program provides monthly phone calls for emotional support throughout the school year.
In this one-to-one relationship, you will receive your child’s profile, picture, letters each term, and prayer requests. Your sponsorship will help see your child through school and launch them into a better life through the power of education. You can sponsor a child from elementary school through university in this fulfilling, life-changing commitment. As children are sponsored, they are removed from the page.
Child sponsorship provides the cost of tuition for your student for three terms. For primary school students, child sponsorship (1500 kwacha) covers the cost of exam fees and school supplies. These children live at home. For secondary school students (2500 kwacha), students do not live at home. In spread out village areas, secondary schools are built equal distance between villages so students live in a dorm or rented room. Your sponsorship covers the cost of tuition, lodging (dorm or rented room), food, and school supplies.
The school year has 3 terms. The first term only, January, all sponsored students have an additional “grade advancement cost” (1000 kwacha) to pay for annual shoes, uniforms, and one time fees as they move up a level. Click the button next to a child below to give them the gift of education for one term.
The students we assist are not to be objectified or de-humanized. The lives of all people, regardless of status, should be portrayed with accuracy and dignity. We believe that the students we assist are partners with us in the process of bringing holistic (spiritual, physical, psychological and social) positive change to their communities. Student scholarship is not only an investment in their education, but also in the future leaders of Zambia.
Privacy demands that students, and communities be protected from any potential inappropriate contact from sponsors or others. The students we assist must feel safe, knowing that CoLaborers International protects the integrity of how their personal information – including photographs – is shared for the purpose of obtaining student sponsors.
We take even the potential abuse of student photographs on the web very seriously and it will not be tolerated. If we feel that a student’s protection, security and dignity have been violated in any way by a sponsor – we have the right to immediately terminate communications and scholarship.
Students have the right to be completely secure from the fear or reality of any potential abuse (either physical or emotional) resulting from an inappropriate contact by a sponsor or any other person.
Give online through Zeffy’s secure server. Select your child’s profile. After we have received your first sponsorship payment, your child’s profile will no longer be on the website to be available for sponsorship.
Mail a check with the ID number of your student to:
CoLaborers International
c/o Child Sponsorship
PO Box 123
Chestertown ,MD 21620
Scholarship Letters & Mailings:
Please email Sarah@CoLaborersInternational.com.
• Please email pictures.
• Please only send pictures where people are fully clothed (i.e. – no bathing suit pictures, shirt less pictures, etc…). Please take care to cover shoulders, cleavage, mid sections, your bottom and thighs in all pictures.
• Please send pictures that are sensitive to their financial situation – taking care not to have expensive electronics, laptops, TVs, large quantities of food, etc… in the photo with you.
• Be aware that ALL pictures are screened for appropriate content before being sent.
It’s common for a reply to take three to four months. Long distances, remote locations, and inadequate postal services can make for slow communication. Also, consider that because the student’s first language is usually Nyanja or Bemba, or Telegu so it may take time for some students to write in English, which is learned in school, or to have letters translated by leaders. So please be patient and feel free to write again, even if you’ve yet to receive a reply. We usually do letter exchange 3 times a year.
CoLaborers International is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. We make annual reports each year to the IRS on use of funds. CoLaborers Zambia is a registered society with the Ministry of Community Development of Zambia.
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