Stories of Impact! Click here to read some inspiring stories, of how we have helped young people overcome challenges, improve their education and sustain their own livelihoods

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Stories of Impact! Click here to read some inspiring stories, of how we have helped young people overcome challenges, improve their education and sustain their own livelihoods 〰️〰️〰️

We exist to:

Upskill and create opportnities.

We work alongside schools and communities to develop practical approaches to education shaped by local knowledge, priorities and aspirations. Through vocational training, enterprise development, girls’ education and climate resilience, we support young people to build the skills and knowledge they need to make choices about their futures.

Together with schools, young people and their communities, we develop solutions that make education more relevant, creative and sustainable, building on the strengths, ideas and resources that already exist locally.

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Young Carpenters.jpg — Our Vision

School Club Zambia envisions a Zambia where every child has access to a high quality, vocational and creative education as outlined in the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. We believe in an education system that leads to job security and life opportunities for Zambia’s youth.
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Our Partners

Our Funding Partners

Since 2011, School Club Zambia has been fortunate to work with a diverse range of funding partners who share our vision for transformative education. Our support has been bolstered by generous contributions from the Egmont Trust, Gurnsey Overseas Aid, Comic Relief, UK Aid, and the UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme. We are also proud to have long-term corporate social responsibility partners, such as The Restaurant Group PLC, whose ongoing commitment helps us sustain and expand our programmes. Their support is vital in enabling us to create lasting impact in the rural communities we serve.

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Our Impact

Since 2011 we have worked in partnership with schools, communities and local Education Authorities to improve the quality of education in vulnerable Zambian schools. Our programmes include income-generation; entrepreneurship and vocational training projects; literacy development and Early Childhood Education programmes as well as specific projects designed to tackle the barriers faced by girls in completing their education. We implement a child rights-based approach (with particular attention on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) ensuring we are directly impacting the lives of the vulnerable children at our partner schools.
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£35k+

£35,000 Raised Independently by Our School RUn Businesses since 2011.

This has been reinvested back into enterprises or been used to develop the schools. To date the profits from our schools’ businesses are paying for community teachers salaries and built two teachers house; 3 classroom blocks; toilets and hand washing stations and allowed schools to buy essential resources like chalk and paper.

6000+

More than 6000 children A YEAR BENEFIT FROM our Programmes.

Since 2011, we have directly supported over 20,00 children through our 4 thematic areas of self-financing schools; vocational education; literacy development and girls education.

3000+

Over 3,000 girls Have been supported through our girls’ education programmes.

This is an innovative 3 tiered approach to over-coming the particular barriers girls face in completing their education. We believe in the power of the female entrepreneur and the urgent need to upskill our young women so that they may reach their full potential.

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Over half of the 19 million people living in Zambia are under the age of 15, making it one of the fastest growing and youngest countries in the world. Yet whilst only 66% of the population is literate according to UNESCO and 1 out of 2 Zambians are under or unemployed, what livelihood options will be available to this next generation? We believe that schools need innovative financial and technical strategies to provide the qualitative education that this next generation so desperately needs.

We know that we are making an impact in rural Zambia, as we carefully measure the targets of our projects and their overall outcomes on our organisation’s long-term goals. An example of these achievements is the 40.4% reduction in the number of days that girls’ miss off school (Girls of Sinazongwe Project funded by FCDO 2019 -2021) and the 25% reduction in extreme poverty amongst 500 targeted households (Agricultural Hubs for Sustainable Schools Project, funded by Addax and Oryx Foundation 2019 - 2022).

Yet we need the support of people like you to reach more schools and rural young people. Can you help?

Generation changers

Sign up to give a monthly regular donation of £10 a month or more and you will become part of our incredible Generation Changers Club. Generation changers are the core support of our work so they receive a special quarterly update report and a welcome gift of an apron from our amazing young tailors’ club!

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Innovation ambassadors

Our Innovation Ambassadors take part in a 6 month structured internship that pairs international volunteers with volunteers from our partner communities. Innovation Ambassadors work together to either start or expand school-run businesses which have a long-lasting impact on the sustainability of our schools.

Be the change

Make a Donation

As a small charity operating on less than £100,000 a year, every little bit goes a long way in helping us to support more schools. A gift of £5 could provide 1 girl with training in how to make re-usable sanitary wear which will prevent her from missing school or £50 could equip 12 young farmers with the skills to price and grade their produce properly.

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