All children deserve the chance to have a safe place to live and to be able to go to school to get an education. The children in Sizinda, Zimbabwe used to have to walk miles to get to school. They were tired by the time that they got to school, so their learning was affected. After a donation of land, Sima Moya and Robert Schiffner had the vision to start building the school in Sizinda. As soon as the walls were up and the teachers were hired, the children started showing up to go to school even though the roof wasn’t on the building yet.

The team built the elementary school and will soon be breaking ground on the secondary school with the goal of building the high school after the secondary school is completed. The costs of education can be high, especially with wages being low in Zimbabwe, so each child is only charged $45 a year to go to school and that includes the school uniform. This makes the dream of an education attainable for more children in this low income area. The children are already scoring higher on standardized tests than their counterparts in traditional schools.

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