Nsobe Community School

 

 

 

 

 

Nsobe Community School is a remote rural community school which is offering a Christ
Centred quality education to Primary and Secondary children in Masaiti, Zambia. We have
555 children taught by 33 dedicated teachers enrolled in 14 Grades from ECE1 to Grade
12.
 

I started Nsobe Community School as there was no school accessible to the village
children in our area. The school was started in my home in 2009 with 16 pre-school
children; we grew a grade a year until we reached Grade 12 in 2021. We believe in
offering not only education, but education with employment opportunity. We hope to
continue into a Natural Resources College so that our students can learn hands on
practical and relevant skills attached to our commercial farm in the fields of agriculture,
aquaculture, game management and tourism empowering students to create and manage
their own rural projects, or work skilled within the private sector, providing much needed
natural resources development and wealth and job creation.
 

Passionate about developing and caring for the whole child, NCS delivers Christ-centred
education, inspiring a living relationship with Jesus, where students who come from broken
backgrounds come to know His love and to trust in God’s promises and plans for their
lives. Values and morals are instilled based on biblical principles. A daily feeding scheme
is offered, as well as sports and clubs, guidance, child protection, early year’s
development, life skills training, and vocational classes. Safe houses are offered to protect
girl students from neglect and early marriages, ensuring that they complete school, and
gain educated control over their futures. Our dedicated Teachers served as role models
and mentors.
 

Nsobe students are the bringers of literacy and hope to their homes and will graduate to
become professional, educated and skilled citizens with who we hope will bring great
change and the light and love of Jesus to their communities.
 

The Copperbelt Province is extremely poor. Most residents live well below the poverty line.
Child poverty is widespread and estimated to be at least 80%. Illiteracy is also widespread
and 90% of the Nsobe Community children’s parents are illiterate. Before NCS became
available, most local children left school after primary education. NCS far exceeds other
rural schools, where teacher absenteeism is rife, class sizes can be as large as 100
students, and children leave school unable to read or write. NCS are the district’s only
rural school with computers, delivering high-quality ICT education. Nsobe will soon offer
vocational skills training in carpentry and tailoring so that those not on the academic path
can create their own futures.

 

Secondary schools in rural areas are rare and inaccessible to children. While a solid
primary foundation is critical without secondary schooling no student can access trades or
academic pathways and future employment. A quality education is one of the best ways to

break the cycle of poverty. For every year of secondary school, it is estimated that a child’s
future wages will increase by between 15% and 25%. Through Christ Centred education,
we hope to empower children with the benefits stretching beyond the individual child to
their family and future generations.
 

Nsobe Community School has full backing and encouragement of our PEO and shines out
as a model school. We consistently excel in the national exams, and have exceptional
results for a remote rural school. We know we are making a real difference.
The majority of the school’s running resources, teacher salaries and infrastructure has
been self-funded through our farm, Miengwe Farm and Nsobe Game Camp, Teacher Aid
Charity (Based in Wales), Seeds of Hope and private donors. Nsobe Community School is
currently in the process to become a Grant Aided school, which will give us private control
over standards and ethos with full government support, we hope and pray that this will be
possible to ensure the school’s long term sustainability whilst ensuring strict adherence to
the School’s Vision and commitment to the community it seeks to uplift.

 

“With God, all things are possible through Christ”

Phillipians 4:13

 

Yours faithfully
Fiona Tomlinson
Director and Founder Nsobe Community School