One of the things that I have come to love, since setting up Our Moon, is the camaraderie between fellow small international development charities. From pooling our knowledge on the Small International Development Charities Network Facebook page set up by Victoria Hancock Fell and Operation Sunshine helping me in shipping text books to Zambia, to Baraka Community Partnership’s match funding of a student scholarship, Deana […]
Precious, an Our Moon scholar, enjoys a day with Baraka Community Partnerships
Precious Kalungu, one of Our Moon’s current scholars writes about a recent outing organised by barakacommunitypartnerships. “It was an honour being given an opportunity to be part of the audience of intellectual speakers. I was at a meeting organised by Baraka Community Partnerships, an organisation that partly funds my Our Moon scholarship. Each year, Baraka gets […]
Helen attended this year’s HALI Indaba in Rwanda
Janet Heinonen of East Africa Scholars Fund writes about our time there. Talent Is In Abundance: HALI Indaba Reflections The recent HALI Indaba in Rwanda, an engaging gathering of passionate, professional advocates for HALI students, had many “glad to know that” moments. Here are a few of mine: • Why context is important on the CSS/Financial […]
Standing up for the ‘boy-child’
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 […]
What my day at an Our Moon workshop meant for me, by Nzowa
Nzowa attended Tomorrow’s Leaders Forums in Lusaka and told us what her highlights had been. Nzowa is in Grade 11 and looking to identify opportunities open to her when she finishes school. The highlight of my day was when Ted Talks was introduced. I watched the video clip of Chimamanda Adichie and it just touched […]
Our Moon in Zambia – part three – Lusaka conferences and visits to UNZA & CBU
The third blog in our series about our visit to Zambia concludes with our Lusaka student and teacher conferences, as well as trips to both Copperbelt University (CBU) and University of Zambia (UNZA). Florence Nkowane from Kucetekela Foundation very kindly invited on our behalf a group of 11 teachers from five schools to a conference […]