Our Moon

In Mbulo-Chipansha, Zambia, unemployment rates are high and opportunities are low.

All too often, young people in this area rarely attend school beyond primary level, and are reliant on the twice annual work planting and harvesting maize, Zambia’s staple crop.

Even without these obstacles, many young people don’t have the personal papers they need to take on legal employment.

That’s why we offer local youth volunteering opportunities with Our Moon.

As well as earning a living stipend, these young people are given time to organise a birth certificate, national ID cards and register with tax and pension services.

All volunteers leave us with a new set of transferable skills, and if we have the budget, some are offered full-time employment contracts.

During their time with us, our volunteers can get stuck into myriad tasks on-site, whether that’s maintenance, building, gardening, cooking, cleaning or operations.

Gradually, volunteers apply what they’ve learnt on site to their own lives: we’ve seen an increasing number of homes lit up by simple solar lights scattered around the landscape, and corrugated steel roofs are gradually replacing traditional grass roofs on buildings across the area.

As we onboard more scholars, we’ll need more volunteers to help us set up learning and information hubs around the country. By expanding our Value Added Volunteering programme, we could go on to offer invaluable internship opportunities for students on our other programmes, and award volunteers with qualifications to prove their achievements.

However, we can’t do this without your support — by donating today, you’ll not only be helping us shape the next generation of Africa’s future leaders, but you’ll be helping us upskill Zambian communities, too.

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“As a single mother, working for Our moon helps me take care of my three children. I can send them to school and provide them with uniform, books and food.”

— Emelda