Hope Fellowship Ministries - Ndola, Zambia
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Hope Community School
Hundreds of children in the Twapia neighborhood in Ndola, Zambia are too poor to attend school. With even the public/government schools requiring students to pay for uniforms and books, those children who come from poor families or whose family members have died of AIDS are not able to afford this.

In 2006, Hope Fellowship Ministries opened Hope Community School to serve the children of Twapia. Currently more than 200 children between the ages of four and 18 attend. With the assistance of Spark Ventures, Hope Community School has hired a staff of four dedicated teachers and one administrator.  These passionate educators teach English, math and reading from pre-school to a 7^th grade education level, at which time the children are tested to gain entrance to a government school. Hope is in the process of acquiring school supplies, text books and even uniforms for the students who attend this school.

With hunger and poor nutrition being a serious problem for most of the children at this school, beginning in January, 2007 a meal program was started. Through funding from Spark Ventures, this food program provides meals four times a week for the children of Hope Community School.  Twice a week the students receive a hot meal, and twice a week they receive a snack of buns and juice. For many of the children, these meals are their main source of nutrition.