As part of our thread introducing our scholars and ambassadors, here they all are in one place with a few words about them and our work. Benadette Nanyangwe: Ambassador for Social ChangeBenadette would like to be a nurse, but it isn’t easy in Zambia to be able to afford the training. A very determined young […]
Banning Squatting at the University of Zambia
One of our ambassadors, Grace, has written a perceptive piece on squatting in the University of Zambia. As always, we encourage debate around a topic that appropriately respects the views of others. Squatting has been a tradition at our higher institution of learning, UNZA. Traditionally, it has helped non-accommodated students – of which there are […]
Gender: Standing Up for the Boys
There is so much being discussed in the international development arena about supporting the girl-child. But what about the boy-child? The many challenges that face the girl-child are now well documented and, due to the SDGs, funds are flowing to support many initiatives to help girls to stay in school, combat gender based violence in […]
Culture as a Theme: Culture’s Vulturous Ventures
Zambians are a people, living in the space of approximately 752,614 square kilometers. Full of races, tribes, traditions and cultures, yet unity is our theme. We are Rich, not with money but of practices that take us a century behind. Where I come from, hard-work is when you go to the farm early in the […]
Happy Youth Day: How a community member of Pamodzi can help a street child
Thando is one of Our Moon’s scholars. She recently conducted some research into the coping mechanisms of street children as her community based project. She concluded that there are many ways that street children do cope, but this is often just a front. She, therefore, wished to publicise her ideas of simple ways that the […]
New Theme: National Youth Day 12th March
On Monday 12th March, Zambia will be celebrating Youth Day; an internationally recognised celebration dedicated to celebrating young people’s contributions to conflict prevention and transformation as well as inclusion, social justice, and sustainable peace! Some of the youth involved in our programme have been writing some of their thoughts in honour of this day. We […]