Child Sponsorship Program II

Many children in Zambia are denied pre-school education because of poverty. This is a major problem because modern research shows how important it is to lay the foundations for learning at a young age. Children from comparatively wealthy families thus get a head start in their educational lives as they will start school even as young as 18 months. 

As a result ZIGS has introduced a child sponsorship program to try to break this cycle of poverty. For £200 ($250) per term you can support a child to be educated at ZIGS and thus be educated in an environment that is thoroughly conducive to learning. For a relatively small amount of money in northern hemisphere terms a child can be given the foundations for lifelong learning.

Give a little to save a soul

On Saturday 27th October ZIGS hosted an Independence Day party for 30 orphans from across Livingstone. The party was organised by Kimberley Musonda, the Director of the charity 'Give a little to safe a soul' and former Big Brother Africa contestant, the students from the Victoria Falls University Community Outreach Group and the staff of ZIGS. The day was full of laughter and joy and the children went home very happy! It was a privilege for all of us a ZIGS to be part of such an event that focused on supporting the most vulnerable children in our community!

The Book Bus

The Book Bus visited ZIGS this week and donated three boxes of books for our library. We are delighted to work in partnership with this wonderful organisation which is committed to raising literacy levels across Zambia, Malawi,Ecuador and most recently India. The books donated will be a wonderful addition to our new library.

As part of our commitment to the community that we are part of, we at ZIGS, are to open our children's library to the wider community. Thus it will not only be our children at ZIGS who benefit from the books donated by the Book Bus but also many more children across Livingstone!