OUR MOON EDUCATION
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Mission Statement
Empowering Zambia’s young people, through education and personal guidance, to bring about positive social change. Our Moon is a small education charity based in Zambia. We provide bright but financially-disadvantaged young people with the skills and knowledge to help them contribute to Zambia’s development. In doing so, we aim to empower young Zambians to realise their potential to lift themselves and their families out of poverty, and to create socially conscious young leaders who will extend this benefit to their wider communities and beyond.
About This Cause
Our Moon carefully selects high-achieving but low-income students, in collaboration with alumni, local and national Zambia-based charities and schools, and provides them with a holistic education programme and guidance in applying for higher education scholarships. Our students are extraordinary young people – they have excelled in their education despite the many challenges they have faced - but finish school abruptly with no obvious next step. Through our Young Leaders Programme, we provide these students with an eighteen month programme, mostly based at our residential centre in a beautiful part of Central Province. We concentrate on developing their academic skills (mainly English, communication, Maths and IT), their mental wellbeing including exploration of identity, physical health, social consciousness and spiritual wellbeing. We also help students with their applications to universities. In Zambia’s extremely unequal society, only the privileged few have the opportunity to complete secondary school and access higher education. For the brightest students from poor families, there exist few opportunities to thrive in education on merit. This traps those most acutely familiar with Zambia’s complex structural difficulties into a cycle of poverty and incapacity to influence social change. Zambia has suffered from a lack of investment in universities for many decades with a student loan system which increasingly excludes the poorest students. Zambia’s national curriculum has no provision for 16-19 year olds. Students finishing the equivalent of GCSEs are forced to wait two years before they can gain a place at university, and then only if they are lucky enough to be admitted and receive a sufficient loan. Lack of access to the appropriate qualifications, skills and personal development also excludes these high-achieving low-income Zambians achieving entry requirements for scholarships abroad or from getting a job.