Educate 500 Zambian orphans & vulnerable children

Dear Compassionate Donors

It's with great pleasure that I share our recent newsletter highlighting events like Parents Teachers Association Meeting, International Yoga Day celebrations for the first time being held at our school itself, trophies won at the annual Kids Athletics’ competition, visit of our partners in charity and disbursement of TOSF bursaries; including other insights like the article "The Cry of an Underprivileged Child”    

Because of your selfless and unconditional giving, The Other Side Foundation is able to provide a holistic and organic values-based education to the 500 orphans and vulnerable children attending The Other Side Foundation School for OVC.

Though we are still very far from reaching our target of 100,000USD (it has been over 4 years now and we have only raised 37 259 USD) we are still immensely blessed and honoured that you are our pillars of support. The happy faces you see on our reports can’t thank you enough for your generous contributions and we hope you will kindly share with your colleagues, friends and family TOSFs’ mission and objectives to uplift the lives of the marginalised and down trodden.  

Please click on the link below to read our 2nd Quarter Newsletter

Gratefully Yours

Leela Singaram Champ                                                                                                                   

Founder & Executive Director

Links:

• 2nd Quarter Newsletter

When an epidemic comes unannounced, regardless of what is lying along its path, it razes anything and everything that crosses its path ! Thus was the result of the recent Cholera epidemic that hit Zambia.                                                                                                                                                                    About 21 000 people were affected by the outbreak and over 700 died of the pandemic. As always the ones impacted severely are the less privileged living in shanty towns and impoverished areas where hygene and water related diseases is a daily struggle.

In George Compound, Matero township in the outskirts of the capital Lusaka, where our school is situated to serve these households living in extreme poverty, were severely impacted. Most adults living here are casual workers earning less than a dollar a day to feed their families. Some of our students either lost their parents or guardians to this epidemic or were themselves infected. A student of TOSF School for OVC is now the head of his family as he has lost his parents because of the epidemic.

Our emergency outreach intervention was limited to just 30 “poorest of the poor” families of our students, due to TOSF’s financial restraints as we are not an income generating school and have limited funds. A donor who wishes to remain anonymous donated to provide emergency rations. 

Please see link below to read more about this increasingly onerous situation we are in. Your support dear donors is especially needed during such demanding times.      

Links:

• Social, economic and educational Impact of an epidemic