Meet the Bakashana Grantees with Sponsors. Want to learn more about what it means to be a sponsor? Visit our Sponsor Expectations page.
Tracy Kangwa
Thank you to Tracy’s Full Sponsor, Beth Morgan!
Tracy is from Chiba, Kasama, but she has recently been selected to attend Kanyanta Boarding School. With the help of Bakashana, she hopes to complete secondary school and fulfill her dreams. She is very committed to her education and is working to become a doctor.
Mercy Phiri
Thank you to Mercy’s Full Sponsor, who prefers to remain Anonymous!
After Mercy’s father died in an auto accident, she stopped attending school due to a lack of funding. A friend told her about Bakashana, and after a week, the same friend escorted Mercy and her mother to our office. After passing the interview process, we were delighted to offer a scholarship.
Ireen Chanda
Thank you to Ireen’s Full Sponsors, Tristar and Scott Egermayer!
Ireen is highly determined! Due to her academic prowess, we offered to send her to a Boarding school when we first met her in 2020, and again when she passed grade 9 in 2021. She is committed to her elderly Grandmother who supports her, and knows that Grandma would have a hard time completing basic tasks if Ireen went to a Boarding School. Until last year, she had the support of her Grandfather as well, who was a pensioner, but unfortunately, he passed away in early 2022. Ireen is self-motivated and determined and will go far with your support!
Faith Chanda
Thank you to Faith’s Full Sponsor, Inutu Liam!
Faith Chanda is a very strong and determined little girl. In 2019, her Mother brought her to our offices. At the time she was only four years old. Faith’s Mom has always known in her heart that this girl needs to be in school. After multiple surgeries to correct her club feet, braces on her growing little legs, and years of physio therapy to help her learn to walk, Faith is ready to enter grade 1 in 2022.
Faith’s Father suffers from the same condition. Through hard work and a strong partnership, Faith’s parents have been able to meet the basic needs of their family, living together in a grass thatched house in a shanty compound outside of Kasama Town. Faith is attending a Boarding School for special pupils which is run by the Catholic Church here in Kasama. Learn more about Faith’s journey
Theresa Chileshe
Thank you to Theresa’s Full Sponsor, Inutu Liam!
Theresa describes herself as “a learner with big dreams”. She scored the highest on her grade 7 national exams of any of our 2021 bursary applicants. She dreams of becoming a medical doctor.
Trinah Mutale
Thank you to Trinah’s Full Sponsor, Jennifer Lukomski!
Trinah Mutale will graduate high school in 2024. She is a hard working young woman who has really persisted to make it as far as she has. She lives with her single Mom and the family does not have access to electricity, which makes it hard for Trinah to study sometimes. She say the thing that makes her most happy in life is school.
Loveness Mwansa
Thank you to Loveness’ Full Sponsors, Tristar and Scott Egermayer!
Loveness Mwansa lost her hearing after falling ill with Malaria when she was 12. Soon after, she lost her parents as well. Having had her hearing up to that point put her at an advantage in terms of learning as compared to those pupils who are born deaf. She came to our program soon after losing her hearing and we put her in a special school for the deaf. She currently attenda an even better school in Copperbelt, where she has been appointed as the leader of her class. She is incredibly intelligent and her bright smile lights up any room. When she is not in school she is kept by her Aunt and Grandfather, She will graduate grade 12 in 2024. Learn more about Loveness.
Patience Konkola
Thank you to Patience’s Full Sponsors, Tristar and Scott Egermayer!
Patience Konkola is being kept by her Grandmother who keeps and cares for 9 of her grandchildren who have lost their parents. They live in a house which is unfinished, and in which they are able to stay rent-free to look after the property while the one constructing it finds money to complete it and rent it out. Patience is exceptionally bright and active. Here she is pictured in costume as she performed traditional dance for our 2021 Independence Day celebration. Patience attends the finest girl’s school in Kasama and walks more than an hour each way to get there. She will graduate grade 12 in 2024.
Bethsheba Mofu
Thank you to Bethsheba’s Educational Benefactor, John Flynn!
Dyness Mutale
Thank you to Dyness’ Full Sponsor, Jane Eddy!
Dyness Mutale has been with our program since grade 8 when she was brought by one of her former teachers. She comes from a very rural place in Mungwi District. We saw that her home situation was not conducive and that she would benefit from a greater learning institution, and we sent her to Kasama girls. After she passed her grade 9 exams, we acknowledged that she would benefit from increased self-confidence and assertiveness. For this reason, we pulled her from Kasama Girls and brough her here to our boarding house so that she could be closely mentored by our staff and other girls in boarding. She will graduate grade 12 in 2024.
Lillian Chileshe
Thank you to Lillian’s Full Sponsor, Kimberly McPhee!
Lillian Chileshe is living with her single mother. After passing her grade 9 exams in 2021, she pushed hard to be accepted to Laura Girls, a prestigious school in Kasama. She, along with four others from our program, raised money to sit for entrance exams. Lilliam was the only one amongst the four who passed. She is incredibly bright, both in spirit and intellect. She has ambitions of becoming an accountant to capitalize on her love for math.
Mwambazi Grace
Thank you to Graces’s Educational Benefactor, Inutu Liam!
Grace will graduate in 2022. She has been with Bakashana program since 2015. She stands out as a committed and active member of our program, as well as our Girls Leading our World Club. She describes herself as a “strong girl” and has ambition to be a Journalist. Her hobbies include reading about other people’s history.
Kalaluka Mwango Emily
Thank you to Emily’s Educational Benefactor, Inutu Liam!
Mwango will graduate in 2022. She is unlike any young lady who we have ever had the pleasure of providing assistance to. She consistently ranks number one in her class and her incredible intellect will take her as far as her circumstances allow. She lost her mother when she was four and has never known her biological father.
Peggy Mubanga
Thank you to Peggy’s Educational Benefactors, Liz Uno and Rey Juban!
Peggy Mubanga will complete high school in 2025. She is a Survivor. She was brought to Bakashana Boarding house by a concerned Auntie who wasn’t comfortable with the way she was being kept by her relatives. She lost both her parents before she was 10 years old. She has truly blossomed over the last year under our roof. She is a friendly young lady who loves animals and her favorite food is chicken and rice.
Joy Kabwe
Thank you to Joy’s Full Sponsor, Alex Dunfey!
Joy will graduate in 2025. She is being raised by her single Mom. She loves to sing and dance and her favorite proverb is: “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched!” She calls her Mother her most important role model.
Noice Namuchenje
Thank you to Noice’s Full Sponsors, Jack Morrow and Friends/Family!
Noice is a fun loving, motivated student attending Laure Girls Secondary School. She takes after her mother in never wasting a moment and she is often reading random English books or pamphlets she’s gotten her hands on. She immediately made friends and she is without a doubt among the sharpest kids in her class. Upon graduating she would love to continue her education into nursing. Noice Namuchuenje is a rockstar student and plans on breaking the pattern of women in her family ending education before secondary school. She will graduate in 2023.
Memory Mulenga
Thank you to Memory’s Full Sponsor, Carol Rholl!
Memory comes from a family of 10, and is attending Laura Girls Secondary School. Her favorite subjects are math and biology. She dreams of someday becoming a doctor in order to heal sick people, and help her family and her country.
Sharon Mulenga
Thank you to Sharon’s Full Sponsor, Catherine Bruns!
Jane Kampamba
Thank you to Jane’s Full Sponsors: Barbara Power, Jamie Beers, and Sherry Hostetter!
“After losing my Mom and then my Father, life was terrible for me and my siblings. I have a problem with my leg which began when I was 14 years old. It causes me great challenges when walking. I was living in an orphanage before the Bakashana boarding house. I want to succeed so I can be an example for girls to make them understand that one or two problems can’t make your life end.”
Theresa Mutale
Thank you to Theresa’s Full Sponsors, The Awsumb Family!
Theresa was raised in a rural area. She will graduate high school in 2025. She is the last born in a family of seven, and her parents are quite old. Her father suffers from Tuberculosis and Mom works hard to support the big family. She is a very clever young lady and so grateful to be living at the Bakashana Boarding House.
Deborah Mulenga
Thank you to Deborah’s Full Sponsor, Wiljam Bruno!
Deborah lost both of her parents at a young age and has since been kept by her Aunt and Uncle. She came to learn of Bakashana Program when she became a regular at our Girls Club Meetings on Saturdays. Our staff and coaches were so impressed by this dynamic young lady and so moved by her story that they insisted that she move into the Boarding House. She wishes to become a Medical Officer after she graduates high school in 2024.
Theresa Mulenga
Thank you to Theresa’s Full Sponsor, Linda Short!
Theresa will graduate high school in 2025. She was so relieved to come and live at the Bakashana Boarding House, because prior to that she was living with her Mother who works alone to support the family through subsistence farming, because her father has a debilitating physical disability. Theresa is always smiling and has dreams of being a Nurse one day.
Rabecca Zimba
Thank you to Rabecca’s Full Sponsors, Sven Haarhoff and Allison Shadday!
Rabecca loves poetry and dancing. She has dreams of being a doctor after graduating high school in 2024. Before moving into the Bakashana Boarding house, she was staying with her single mother and two younger brothers. Her older sisters didn’t manage to finish school, and instead married quickly. She is a hard working and sociable young woman.
Catherine Chipanta
“I really want to be on scholarship, with no support coming from my family, you are the only hope I have.”
Thank you to Catherine’s Full Sponsor, Michelle Barr!
Catherine first came to know our program through our weekend life skills clubs for girls. She is high achieving and hopes to become a doctor. Unfortunately, Catherine lives in a home where her Step Father shows favor on his biological children and makes Catherine do the bulk of the work. He has taken out multiple loans and financially crippled the family. We have brought Catherine into a boarding environment so she can focus on her studies and pursue her dreams of becoming a doctor.
Constance Mutale
Thank you to Constance’s Full Sponsor, Ingeborg Holiday!
Contance will graduate high school in 2023. She loves dancing, singing, and reading, and says that the most important person in her life is her Mom. Her favorite subject is mathematics and she performs very well in school. She is currently studying at an all girls STEM boarding school, thanks to Bakashana and her sponsor.
Thelma Kabwe
Thank you to Thelma’s Full Sponsor, Susha Cohen!
Thelma is a hard working young woman who has been living with her Grandmother. Before we were able to purchase her a bike, with help from her sponsor, she was walking nearly two hours to-and-from school each day. She has continued to impress us, and this year was selected to be the school leader of her class. Thelma is very outgoing and loves to make people laugh. She dreams of exploring the world, a dream she has held since she was a little girl.
Dorothy Mwanamusonda
Thank you to Dorothy’s Educational Benefactor, Martha Hill!
Dorothy loves singing and dancing. She has been raised by her very hardworking single mother who travels between town and the village- farming in the village so that her daughter can have a better life by accessing schools in town. Dorothy is outgoing and sweet, and is always ready with a smile. She has ambitions of being a teacher one day.
Elizabeth Muma
Thank you to Elizabeth’s Educational Benefactor, Jane Eddy!
Elizabeth is currently in Grade 10. When she is not away at school, she stays with her mother in a compound on the outskirts of Kasama. She and her mother, who is also albino, face many challenges living in Northern Zambia. Not only is the sun often unforgiving but there are also cultural biases against people with albinism, and they are often mistakenly associated with witchcraft and bad spirits. Elizabeth has risen above these challenges, seeing education as her path to a brighter future for herself and her family. She aspires to be a nurse.
Lastage Musonda
Thank you to Lastage’s Educational Benefactor, Beth Morgan!
“My Father died last year. My Mother is a disabled woman. She walks with two crutches and she’s suffering from one kind of disease, such that she can’t even work any simple kind of job even house chores. I would love to go to college so that I can contribute for my family’s sustainability and the community at large.”
Peggy Mutambo
Thank you to Peggy’s Full Sponsor, Sherry Hostetter!
Peggy lives in Henry Kapata Village with her mother, father, and 3 siblings. While Peggy’s dad seeks money doing carpentry, the family still struggles to make ends meet. Peggy’s exceptional English skills and intellect make her stand our among her family and peers. Now that she is sponsored, Peggy can focus on her studies and her family can focus on getting their other children through school.
Catherine Mwansa
Thank you to Catherine’s Educational Benefactors, Jenna Metz and Chad Howell!
“I want to be in school because education is my only future and I realize that education in the only way that I will survive. If I am not educated I will not be able to take away this suffering from my Grandmother.”
Catherine has been raised by her Grandmother since both of her parents passed away when she was only five years old. She is a sweet and quiet girl who visited our offices on her own (as her Grandma couldn’t manage the journey). We were so moved to meet Catherine that we took her straight away to buy some clothes and shoes, it was so apparent that she wasn’t getting the support that a young woman needs.
Kethabel Kaputa
Thank you to Kethabel’s Full Sponsors, Kari Hummer and Dan Pennise!
“In January 2018 my Dad shot my Mom dead and later shot himself. I didn’t attend the first term because of the situation…I was sent to stay with my grandmother in the village.”
Chiluba Chipasha
Thank you to Chipasha’s Educational Benefactor, Dede D’Arcy!
“My mum became mentally ill when I was five years old and failed to care for me. I was moving back and forth to different people’s houses and most recently was living in an orphanage.”
Hope Kangwa
Thank you to Hope’s Full Sponsor, Diana Spencer!
“My Mother struggles to support all three of us at the moment, my Father became mad and at this time he doesn’t have power in his body. I want to be educated and I know education is a matter of the heart.”