ZAMBIAS SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Zambia's Scholarship Fund is by far the most impressive non-profit I have donated to and volunteered with in my life. With no paid staff outside of Zambia, founded and operated by volunteers who sincerely are passionate and full of love and charity to making a difference, the difference is made in the most reliable, sustainable, and important area of education. I saw first hand in 2018 when I traveled over the Zambia to help install solar panels on remote rural schools in the "bush" helping a group of University Engineering students on the humanitarian project. I have never witnessed or imagined such primitive challenging living conditions that these families and communities experience, however Zambia's Scholarship Fund has been literally a life saver providing the successful opportunity to education, skills, employment, and economic sustainable paths for thousands! The donations go directly to individuals and specific projects and programs where $1 goes further probably than most other places in the world, creating a huge needed impact for less of a donation, where in the world it's needed most. I continue to routinely volunteer help and donate to ZSF however and whenever I can.

I have been with ZSF since its beginnings 20 years ago. I've helped sponsor several students during that time, meaning that I've helped pay their high school and college fees (to become teachers). Then, as they've graduated from high school and college, I've helped them by paying their wages as teachers - just $100/month. Now ZSF has branched out to helping build and maintain an orphanage, build schools, dig wells, provide solar panels for schools and bicycles for each bush teacher, etc. It is exhilarating to be part of an organization that lifts people above the poverty of their station and then move them on to further help others. Sherry Christensen

Zambia Scholarship Fund is the only fund that I know of that sends every penny raised to the county and is helping the poorest of the poor. These people need to "learn how to fish" and that is what this organization is doing. I want to encourage everyone to check out what they do and I challenge each on to help just a little. $5-$25/ month can make a big difference.

I have contributed to ZSF for five years. My donations have helped build two schools in the Zambia bush, install solar panels to provide power for school children's lanterns to study after dark, pay for scholarships for needy children to go to school , and build an orphanage. ZSF does great work and uses all donations to help the children with no overhead paid. They are one of my preferred charities.

I have been donating to this charity for 14 years now. The impact of my few dollars donated has been extraordinary. I have been able to radically change the future for an entire family through education and supporting teachers. It is one of the best things I have ever done. I can’t recommend this organization enough. They are giving all my donation to the needy and they keep none for themselves. They are extremely selfless and it works.

I LOVE Zambia's Scholarship Fund. I was looking for something I could do that would really make a difference in peoples lives. I love that it is run completely by volunteers and that every penny donated goes to the cause. I took the opportunity in 2012 to travel to Zambia to help with checking on students and taking supplies. I met many wonderful people whose lives had been changed because of the education they had received. The man who drove me and the friend who was accompanying me told us how he had walked 8 hours to his school on a Sunday, carrying his corn meal for his weeks food. He had slept on the floor of the school all week and would walk home on Friday after school. He was now a minister of Education with a wonderful home and family. He said in his village the children who did not keep walking and going to school stayed, lived and died in their village and died young. He told us education changed his life and that he was watching lives changed by ZSF in the same way as they supplied teachers and opened schools in villages and got children into primary and high school and then into college and trade school. I first hand saw the joy in the faces of SO many young people while I was there and am SO grateful to be a very small part of this organization.

I learned about this amazing charity 20 years ago, and was struck by both the simplicity and the magnitude of its mission - to educate & elevate the poorest people of Zambia. The most impressive thing to me was that 100% of everything that is donated goes straight to the people of Zambia. All expenses, including travel, postage, printing, etc, as well as all the time necessary to coordinate these projects, are donated by the kind-hearted volunteers who participate.
My husband and I have sponsored students nearly every year, and love to recieve the letters of appreciation from the humble recipients! They are precious children of God with lofty goals and ambitions to better their country, yet they cannot reach those goals without help.

Zambia's Scholarship Fund is an extraordinary organization, where 100% of ALL donations go directly to helping the destitute people of Zambia. Their work in Zambia Africa is remarkable and life-changing from helping young people get an education to building schools and orphanages. WOW!

Last summer, I traveled to Kasama, Zambia for two weeks with a couple of other volunteers. I was significantly impressed by the dedication demonstrated by the organization to empower as many people as possible. I have been donating and I received a personal letter in the mail from the student I am helping. I donate with confidence because I know firsthand that the organization sends 100% of my donation straight to the student.

I have been so pleased to be a part of the Zambia Scholarship Fund program. It has blessed my life knowing that I can help people whose lives are so much harder than mine.
These students have hope in their hearts that their lives can be so much more. They are able to attend school. They know that they can gain knowledge, learn and grow.
I am thankful that Peggy Rogers started this wonderful organization and I will continue to be a part of it.

I've been donating to ZSF for nearly a decade and have been so impressed by their work. It is clear to me that the people who run this fund really care about using all of my donations to impact Zambian's lives for the better.

What an honor and privilege to be associated with the Zambia's Scholarship Fund organization. I was able to travel to Zambia in March of 2019 to see first hand the incredible good this organization is doing for the beautiful people of Zambia. The people there are so appreciative and humble. Where else can your dollar do so much incredible good!! Thank you ZSF for allowing me to "Be the good you wish to see in the world"!

I have met the volunteers who keep this organization growing. They are capable and dedicated. I have received letters from students I have sponsored. I'm very pleased, even amazed, that my $30/month has provided schooling & sustinance for a student. This is a top charity.

ZSF is an amazing charity that gives kids opportunities to work for an education that they would not otherwise be able to obtain in their circumstances. Those who sponsor students are able to lift these children from poverty so they can earn an education to support themselves, breaking the chain of generational poverty and building a better future for their families. The school for children with disabilities teaches them skills that give them self worth and jobs that they would not be able to find otherwise, and the micro loans have been a blessing to many of the people, especially single mothers raising children to rise above the poverty level and giving their families better lives.
I have worked with the ZSF and have been involved with helping line up trips for volunteers to go to Zambia to meet with those who receive the benefits from the ZSF. I am not aware of another charity where the volunteers are so selfless and where there is not a paid infrastructure.

In the early 1970's, I was a lecturer at the University of Zambia. One of the objectives of the University was to produce school teachers in a program that offered free tuition in return for several years of service. Most of the graduates, however, managed to avoid the "service". Zambian school teachers were poorly paid and were often sent to remote parts of the country where the classroom was also their home. Little wonder that the graduates did everything they could to avoid teaching. The system clearly was not functioning.

Then, some years ago,I discovered the ZSF in a charity document distributed by the US government. An all-volunteer organization had a plan to improve education in the most remote part of Zambia, the Northern Province. I immediately recognized that the plan had merit: ZSF would help fund children in the Province to finish secondary and high school, and then support selected students to attend a college for teachers. The real key to the program, however, is that the best of the graduates would be offered teaching jobs at one of the schools supported by ZSF. Thus, the cycle of education was complete: children to employed teachers.

My understanding is that some of the ZSF's teachers have now been offered positions at government sponsored schools, a really tangible success in a part of the country where jobs are almost non-existent. Congratulations to all the volunteers who have helped in making this program a success.

The Zambia Scholarship fund is an organization that gives back 100% to the people in Zambia. They can be trusted to deliver. I personal know Peggy Rogers (the founder and President of this organization) and the sacrifice she has made her whole life in helping others. She has given her time, money and love to the Zambia Scholarship fund so that her friends in Zambia can better themselves and their people. I also have went to Zambia to oversee that the funds were being used appropiately and that the children were attending school. I used my own money and covered all of my own expenses as did the other 3 women that went with me. Everyone who goes pays there own way, even Peggy who has gone somewhere around 16 time. The people are so appreciatative of the educations they are receiving and many more plead for a chance to go to school. Their are alot of them that go on to College and became teachers themselves. To ensure them a job after Graduation the Zambia Scholarship fund gives them a small salary so they can continue to teach. Many travel around 50 miles once a month to pick up their paycheck. I was so impressed with these Beautiful people and their desire to learn and help others. Denise Anger

This is a group of people with one objective, helping people who because of place of birth, do not share the oppoortunities we have. Each member of the board and each person working on the committees is working hard on a volunteer basis to bless the lives of people a world away.

Honest people running an honest nonprofit. Regular visits to Zambia ensure the money is being used properly.

Education is the key to success. They have built a program that educates teachers who educate students in rural areas. This foundation is respected in Zambia.

Peggy Rogers,the founder of the Zambia Scholarship Fund in my friend. She asked to teach sewing in Zambia to young women who needed a way to create a business for themselves. I went with three other women who talk cooking and lotion making. We worked with both young women and young men and taught them a new skill. They were so excited. We also visited the schools that the Zambia Scholarship Fund sponsors. These people want to learn and grow and get an education. This fund is a blessing for these young people. I like this Zambia Scholarship Fund because it is truly a non-profit organization. All funds go to the students except for the wages of it's two employees who oversee the organization in Kasama, Zambia. As well as a volunteer, my husband and I are donors.

My wife started giving to the Zambia Scholarship Fund about 12 years ago. She was putting a couple of Zambian kids through high school. She was later asked to be over a school and assign students to sponsors. She felt a little overwhelmed because she had so many other things going on in her life. I took over for her. As of that time I knew little about the ZSF and had not personally made a contribution to it. I soon realized that 100% of the funds donated to the ZSF (with the exception of a required audit costs) go to help the people in Zambia including the two Zambian employees of the fund. I found out that those volunteers that go to Zambia pay for their own airfare, lodging, food, gas for the vehicle they are taken around in to visit the schools, etc. I was shocked to find there was such a charity in existence. I began to investigate other charities and found that most spent the majority of their donations in payment of salaries and expenses for the corporate structure. For example, the President of the American Red Cross makes a salary in excess of $1,000,000.00 a year and only about 10 cents on the dollar actually goes to victims of natural disasters or of wars. The Red Cross is a great charity and does much good, but like most large charities, little of the funds donated actually reach those in need. Peggy Rogers, the ZSF President, receives no salary or reimbursement for expenses. She does this out of a love for mankind. I acknowledge that the bigger a charity becomes it is impossible to maintain the structure without a lot of overhead. That is why the ZSF does almost all of its work in the Northern providence of Zambia and is not trying to take on the world. Well one thing lead to another for me as I became involved. I have now taken both of my daughters to Zambia and my wife. These were on three separate trips. Their lives were all changed for the better by the experience. My wife put a young man in Zambia through medical school and she was able to met him in 2016. It was touching. They had been emailing each other almost weekly when she first agreed to put him through medical school. He graduated in August of 2017 and is now working in a hospital and is doing a residency to become a pediatric surgeon. This young man has a remarkable life story. He never knew his "father" and was given up by his mother at a very young age. He had a love of learning and against all odds he is now a medical doctor--the ZSF's first graduate from medical school. My wife and I put many young man and women through teachers college and high school in Zambia each year. I now lead a trip to Zambia every other year. My heart has been touched and I am amazed at the kindness, charity and love of those that give to help educate the poor in Zambia. I am most amazed at the Zambian people and their gratitude for what the ZSF is doing for them. I am now the Vice President and Chairman of the Board of the fund. The ZSF has given many opportunities to the poor in Zambia who otherwise would be bound by the shackles of poverty. I have met with numerous Zambians in the Northern Providence who are now making a living and supporting a family thanks to the ZSF. If anyone is interested on going on a humanitarian trip to Zambia, at your own expense, I am the person to contact. I can promise you it will change your life and you will see God's tender mercies in action. JIm Boud, 801-558-3625.

Peggy Rogers had the notion that she could build a successful charity organization by writing a book. Being one not particularly schooled in the writing process, whose grammar and spelling were not a strong suit, this was an amazing accomplishment in itself.
I became acquainted with Peggy through her husband, a fellow teacher at Rocky Mountain Jr. High. Her book "Heart To Heart, World Apart" was newly published at that time, and Peggy needed audience to share her story and build awareness of her ambitious dreams–providing education for young people in many remote villages in Zambia and funding the training and support of their local teachers.
For a number of years, I brought Peggy Rogers before groups, large and small, of English students, so that our students might know her story, see her accomplishment, and appreciate her zeal. Peggy's example inspired my young students to believe in their possibilities as writers. We also raised funds, donated school supplies that were transported to Zambia, and some students became pen pals. Peggy's message was that education matters, that going to school is a privilege not every young person enjoys, and that education is the only way for a people to move out of poverty. These are important principles for young people in the community in which I have taught.
These past twenty years I have seen Peggy Rogers keep her dream year by year, increasing here a little and there a little, inspiring others by her sheer determination, great personal sacrifice, and largely, by her tremendous heart. I have watched as Peggy's very ambitious and challenge-filled personal endeavor has become a highly respected charitable organization managed by many dedicated and caring volunteers. It is truly exciting to see Zambia Scholarship Fund enjoying a growing reach in its unique service.

I first learned of ZSF back in about 2003 or 2004. Over the next few years I became quite involved helping with fund raising, gathering and shipping relief supplies, and going to Zambia to distribute supplies. Thanks to ZSF I've had some incredible life-changing experiences. Based on my limited experience and knowledge, I think that ZSF has experienced frustrations over the years, like all non-profits do, but at the present I believe they are doing a great job in Zambia. Their programs have a huge impact in the communities that they serve, and many lives have been changed for the better through the efforts of this fund. I know the founder personally and hold her in the highest regard. Her integrity and desire to help those in the most need in Zambia are beyond reproach. I highly recommend this fund.

I returned from a trip to Zambia in March of this year where we visited all the schools on their program, We met hundreds of students on the ZSF program, we spent two weeks with their young but willing Zambian employees and we sat in their office and looked over their book keeping.
It was all in order in fact Kelvin their accountant graduated with honors at a Zambian accountant school. I meet quarterly with the board, I have reviewed their current audit, I know they have been audited by the Utah Consumer Protection agency and passed with honors, they are accepted by the CFC and the better business bureau.
It only makes sense to me that since they have been helping in Zambia for 16 years they must truly care about the Zambian people. I feel confident that while all charities have their challenges the Zambia's Scholarship Fund has met these challenges and are better and stronger for them.