HOLIDAY NOTICE!!
We wish to inform the public that our offices will be closed until January 6th, 2025.
We also wish to announce that scholarship applications for vulnerable secondary school students will be open from January 6th to 10th, 2025.
We encourage students who are truly struggling and in need of financial assistance to apply. Please note that this scholarship is intended for those who are facing significant challenges, not those who are already doing well.
APPLICATION DETAILS:
- Application forms will be available at our office on the same day 6th January,2025
- Required documents for application:
- 2 report forms from previous grade
- Acceptance letter and ECZ results (for those entering grade 8 & 10)
We look forward to supporting deserving students in their educational journey!
For more information, please visit our office or contact us directly.
Thank you for your continued support! We wish you a wonderful holiday season!
#HappyHolidays
It's always a wonderful day when our work comes full circle! We are grateful to purchase the first consignment of sweaters from our sewing and knitting club. That we get to empower our mothers and aunties with a skill and equipment and then purchase goods from within our Bakashana family is a great blessing!
Dance Competition and Finance Expo to Amplify Youth Voices for Positive Change!
Last month we were honored to host nearly 200 members from 18 of our 27+ Girls Leading Our World and Boys for Change clubs for a full-day event in Kasama featuring their talents, passion, and healthy bodies! With Guest of Honor, Ministry of Health Adolescent Point Person- Madam Lupili in attendance the day was inspiring and motivational with youth sharing their successes, challenges, and ideas for a brighter future. Thanks to AmplifyChange and The Ministry of Health for your collaboration in providing Northern Youth with healthier, more informed futures. Shoutout to our very own Alfred Nkole for the amazing captures and media production!
Interclub Competition
We had a great event on Saturday! Collaborators from @Kasama Arts Zambia @Northside Pharmacy @Ministry of Health Zambia and alllll the youth in attendance were proud of the confidence, talent, accountability, creativity, and heart showcased by our #GLOWBFC members. Ba Youth, remember that you are worthy! Please come see us with challenges you are facing or if you would like more information about family planning or SRH more generally. Thanks to everyone who made the day a success especially our grantor @amplifychange and collaborating schools.
Find something here with us at Bakashana!
🎶"I won't stop coming to Bakashana, because I find something here".🎶 Women from the sewing and knitting cooperative broke into song on Tuesday as we ordered our first consignment of school sweaters. This assistance is truly full-circle: 1) the women formed a group on their own, and started by practicing hand knitting and hand sewing with volunteer teachers within the group 2) thanks to Tools with a Mission, we provided the group with knitting and sewing machines 3) the group has been given a loan to purchase materials so that 4) we will be purchasing all of our school uniforms and sweaters from them in January!
320 Computers for Rural Secondary Schools!
Wiyu Wiyu Wiyu! Northern Province Schools will receive another 62 computers, bringing the total to over 140 gifted and 180 repared over the last two years thanks to our grantor Lenovo , our supplier Computers for Zambian Schools, and other partners. #techforruralschools #youthourfuture #lenovogiving
"I am enough! I am a conqueror! I am worthy! I am loved! I can do it! Nothing can stop me!" Positive self talk to take you into your weekend, family. Coming to you from Bakashana and Balumendo Basambilile insaka, our grade 12's recent workshop.
Girls Leading Our World and Boys For Change Camp 2024, Lake Tanganyika
For the third year in a row we were honoured to host 60 youth and 20 coaches, teachers, and staff from more than 30 schools for a four-day, three night camp themed "Our Bodies, Our Culture, Our Lives". Sessions on Consent, Healthy Relationships, and Harmful Traditional Norms were accompanied by lots of FUN (as you can see in the video)! This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity gives our coaches, collaborating teachers, club members, and select staff the opportunity to dive deep into social, cultural, psycholgical, and physical issues that are having a real impact on youth in our communities.
#cielofoundation #AmplifyChange #laketanganyika #youth #Zambia #eventurezambia #glowbfc #Bakashana #consentmatters #healthyrelationships #harmfultraditionalnorms Thanks to our very own Alfred Nkole for the media and awesome captures!
Together in Community
Today we are blessed with more than 100 visitors. Our under-five growth monitoring and immunization clinic is in progress as well as day four of our five days of workshops with scholarship grantees. Today with are with grade 11 pupils. It is our honour to serve, feed, and support our community in this way. #underfive #community #sharing #finanicalliteracy #globalcitizenship #srh #gender #healthybabies #youthourfuture #kasama #Zambia
One of our trained caregivers sings a song encouraging happiness among a few of the children at our daycare centre "Incende Iya Nsansa", The Place of Happiness. Monthly, this program serves 40 children and their families. We serve focused groups of children every day with physiotherapy, healthy meals, socilization, basic motor skills function development, and maybe most importantly-love and acceptace. We also share with each of their families some basic needs through monthly care packages which include toiletries and rice . #servingchildrenwithspecialneeds #happiness #heart #zambia #kasama
Thank you TWAM!
Our Sewing and Knitting Group is one of our favourite projects. One reason it's our favourite is that we had nothing to do with it! 😆This group formed organically amongst the women we serve through literacy classes, general charity, and health services and is now 30+ strong! The women teaching the classes are doing so on a completely voluntary basis. Through a wonderful collaboration with Tools with a Mission we have been able to boost this group's motivation with high quality equipment, and many of the women in the group are on their way to increased financial independence through valuable skills! Thank you TWAM!
"If you wanna be somebody, if you wanna go somewhere, you better wake up and pay attention!"
"If you wanna be somebody, if you wanna go somewhere, you better wake up and pay attention!" This song (Sister Act 2, anyone?) has become a motto for our scholarship beneficiaries. Here, we sing in chorus with the grade 12's after a recent "Career Guidance" session during our workshop.
