Winniefrida’s story is a testament to the saying, "disability is not an inability". The 16-year-old is not letting her disability stand in the way of her dreams and goals. As she travels down the path of discovering her talents and the things she enjoys doing, she has discovered a passion for running.

In December, the first ever business proposal pitch day was held at the Learning & Leadership Center in Kafue, Zambia where 16 of the high school graduates that attended the Entrepreneurship & Financial Literacy Program High School Graduate Pilot Workshop last summer pitched their businesses ideas to a panel of judges from the Entrepreneurship and M&E Departments. The 16 students had been working hard during the entire process, beginning with research on their business ideas as they prepared for pitch day.

The fourth cohort of the Entrepreneurship & Financial Literacy Program Adult Training graduated this month. In this cohort, 26 women, most of them mothers of the children and youth who attend the Amos Youth Centre, passed the course and received their certificate of completion.

Shalortte is one of the many youths at the Amos Youth Centre (AYC) with so many dreams she is trying to achieve. After being in AYC’s Scholarship Program since 2017, she nurtured the desire to go to a trade school to study agriculture.