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WHY WE'RE DIFFERENT! |
| 1. One hundred percent of your donation goes to the people of Zambia! Everyone who works on this fund is a volunteer. |
| 2. We help where the need is the greatest No one in America can be classified as Extremely poor! You will be helping the worlds poorest people |
| 3.Education is a cure, not a band aid |
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Board Members
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Peggy Rogers, Founder and President 
Peggy is the mother of five children and the grandmother of two new granddaughters, Lilly and Ava. She and her husband, Scott, run their own business called Scott and Peg's Building and Beautification. She enjoys gardening, designing flowerbeds, hiking, and spending time with her dear friends in Korea and Zambia .
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| Scott Rogers, vice president
Scott graduated from the University of Utah in 1981, cumlaude in mathmatic's. He chose to teach high school and Jr. High because he was inspired by a math teacher he had while he was in High school. Scott is also a licenced contractor and last year he retired from school teaching so he could pursue his other passion, that of building, (while he still had the health to do so). Scott has always been a back ground support to Peggy and her scholarship fund but this year he stepped forward, he went to Zambia in March and visited all the schools on the program. (A eight week trip!). He now has the time to travel to Zambia and is excited to be a huge part of what we do.
You can contact Peggy or Scott at peggyzambia@yahoo.com. |
Brad McLaws, Vice President
 Brad is a classically-trained brand manager with the strategic savvy of a consultant and “in-the-trenches” operational experience of a general manager. On top of that, Brad is a true entrepreneur with the scars to prove it! Brad's career started in consulting providing advice to clients including Fidelity, GM, Corning, Saturn, and most significantly for world history, Margaret Thatcher, during her last bid for Prime Minister.
After obtaining his MBA from BYU’s Marriott School of Management, Brad was recruited by PepsiCo into one of the most premier marketing positions in the world. While at PepsiCo, he worked in a variety of management roles giving him a wide range of experience. He was trained in classical marketing while managing brands like Pizza Hut and Tostitos, where he became an expert in new products. Brad developed several new products for Frito-Lay including Bite Size, Santa Fe Gold, and most notably Scoops, which became the flagship product for the $1.5 billion dollar Tostitos brand. Brad also worked in financial planning jobs creating both hundreds of millions of dollars in profit and increased consumer value. Brad continued to move into more significant roles at PepsiCo with his last position reporting directly to the President of Frito-Lay on new business development.
Following a decade of big company success, Brad chose to follow a lifelong dream of building his own company. He co-founded a technology company called Ysource that built applications for high schools to more effectively manage themselves. Additionally, the company pioneered some of today’s immensely popular social networking applications, creating ways for students to communicate and express themselves on their own web pages within a sealed national high school yearbook environment. The company also pioneered online learning with the first online ACT/SAT test prep engines. Ysource continued to develop many other applications that students and schools desired for education, creativity, and fun. The company grew to 55 employees and successfully raised millions of dollars of venture funding. Additionally, the company successfully negotiated many joint ventures and partnerships with companies including NBC, CapitalOne, Ezone, Olan Mills, and USA Today.
After several exciting years of entrepreneurial up’s and down’s, including some significant adventures in real estate development and the travel industry, Brad returned to his consulting origins as the VP of Consulting for Euro RSCG Tatham, a large world-wide marketing services and consulting organization, with clients including Intel, Kodak, Blackberry, InFocus, Ask Jeeves, Maxtor, CommerceOne, and iReady. Brad also led the brand consulting for many non-technical clients such as Franklin Covey, OSI, ProLiteracy, and Inflexion. In 2002, Brad started his own boutique consulting firm, SagePoint Consulting, providing both brand strategy and new concept development assistance to household names like Tropicana, Quaker, PepsiCo, T-Mobile, and Mrs. Fields as well as highly rewarding work with startups like ClearPlay, Debt-Free, and Cimetrix.
On the side, Brad also started teaching Advanced Brand Strategy at BYU’s MBA school and is the author of a forthcoming book entitled What’s the Point!: Finding your BrandPoint and Converting it into Business Building Ideas.
In 2006, Brad co-founded a consultancy specializing in the development of private resorts. Brad’s experience with business management, consumer insights, concept development, branding, financial management, real estate, travel, and entrepreneurship is culminated in this role. Brad brings both fresh thinking and a wealth of diverse business experiences to this important emerging private resort industry.You can contact Brad at brad@mclaws.com |
 Janet James, Secretary
I graduated from Box Elder High School. After many years of raising a family, I returned to Weber State University graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education followed by a MS degree from Utah State University. My five children (four daughters and one son) and 13 grandchildren are my prized possessions.
I recently retired from Davis School District having taught many years and finished the last seven years in a supervisory position.
My interest in Africa began back in 1982. Noel and Jueneta from Zimbabwe, Africa were in my class. Their parents had moved to the United States having suffered extreme hardship in Africa. They wanted their children to have a good education. My interest was sparked further when I was given the book Heart to Heart Worlds Apart. Then in 2004, I traveled to Zambia to bring a grandson home from a mission. Having traveled extensively, my trip to Zambia was the experience that gave me a desire to do more for those less fortunate. When I realized that Peggy was working to fund the education of children in Zambia, I knew I wanted to be involved.
In my effort to help, I might not be able to change the problems in Africa, but I can change the life of one student at a time.
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Laura Kennedy, Public Relations Manager
 Laura has found great satisfaction and joy sponsoring students through ZSF. She appreciates that ZSF provides Zambians with accessible education by which they can more easily realize what they hope to achieve for themselves, their families, and their society.
Laura was raised in Sacramento, California. She and her husband, John Paul, now live in Farmington, Utah with their four children. In 1991,
Laura graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Humanities from Brigham Young University. In 1995, she graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. She became a member of the Utah State Bar in 1995, and works as an attorney in Salt Lake City.
You can contact Laura at laurazambia@yahoo.com
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Heather Leavitt, Fund raising specialist  Heather Johnsen Leavitt is the mother of four beautiful girls and the wife of Jeff Leavitt. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing in 1995. She has been practicing nursing ever since in a variety of areas.
She is currently serving as the head of her local church’s women’s organization and has been since November 2006. She loves all kinds of sports—playing or watching. She values education and knows that education changes lives. She is excited to serve on the board and further the work of Zambia’s Scholarship Fund.You can contact Heather at: heather4zambia@yahoo.com |
Bobbie Brock, Treasurer 
Bobbie Brock was born in Colorado and raised in Utah. Bobbie moved to South California where she met and married her husband, Jerry. They have three children: Steven, David and Lisa, all of whom graduated from Box Elder High School.
Bobbie has worked as a homemaker and for the last seventeen years has worked as a clerk for the Brigham City Library. Love of reading helped lead her to the library where she has been particularly excited to help children expand their joy of reading into a lifelong skill.
Having retired, she volunteers at the library and the Box Elder Food Pantry. She enjoys reading, traveling, sewing, and crafts. No matter where she goes or what she is involved with, the most important things in her life are her family, church, and her health, which she is forever grateful.
You can contact Bobbie at: bobbie4zambia@yahoo.com
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| Val Stokes, Books & Supplies Delivery Coordinator |
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I am a resident of Tremonton, Utah. My wife Julie and I own and operate Stokes Trucking. We have been involved with Zambia’s Scholarship Fund since 2003. In the spring of 2007 I made my first trip to Africa representing the Fund. I feel very blessed and humbled to be able to gather books and other supplies in the US, primarily in Utah, and then after shipping them, be able to go and see the joy and hope that these supplies bring to both faculty and students in schools we donate to in rural Zambia. If you want to help with this amazing program that provides books, all kinds of supplies, desks, chairs, etc, FREE to needy schools in rural Zambia, please go back to the Home Page, click on “Our Programs”, scroll down the page and click on “ZSF Book Program”. Thank you.
Val can be contacted at val@stokestrucking.com
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Linda Durrant, Accountant 
I was born and raised in Utah and don’t like to talk about myself. I inherited my father’s talent for accounting. After working most of my career in “Corporate America”, in 2002 I went to work for myself and have never looked back. Although I am also a licensed real estate agent in the State of Utah, my focus has primarily been on accounting. I love what I do the most because I can help people with my skills.
Last year I moved to the Nashville, TN area and am enjoying the beautiful sights, the lush greenery, and the music and early American history which surrounds me. Not to mention the fact that I am now much closer to my daughter, granddaughter and son-in-law. I am very active in church and love to travel.
I was introduced to the Zambia project by my dear friend and client, Brad McLaws, and am very excited to be a part of such an important work.
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| Brita Chon, Coordinates Speakers for Public Schools
(waiting for Bio and Picture)
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Jenny Rogers, Trip Coordinator
 Chabala village, Zambia, was my home and its people were my family from 2000-2002. I gained so much during these years as a Peace Corps Volunteer that I consider myself forever indebted to the people of Zambia and when I left, a significant piece of my heart remained behind.
Living in Zambia, I found that I did not miss many things from America aside from family and friends. I did however, feel gratitude for my education and for the many opportunities found in the U.S. Here, opportunities to learn are all around us and are too often taken for granted. In Zambia, a child happily skips for miles to get to a school with a dirt floor and a grass roof in hopes that someone will be there to teach him. I taught a fifth grade class in Zambia which was starving to learn and yet had never been taught the alphabet. They believed that if they could just learn to read, they could change their lives.
 Zambia’s Scholarship Fund changes lives by giving students a chance to learn and expand their minds. I do not support aid organizations which do not acknowledge the resources that Zambians have. There is one resource that is more valuable than anything that can be given or donated: That resource is their minds.
Though our societies are worlds apart, people in Africa and in America are the same. Just as we do, people in Africa feel, love, hurt, cry, laugh, and wonder. I love bringing Americans face to face with Africans and witnessing minds and hearts expand. One of the most powerful ways to help Africa is to change the western world’s erroneous perceptions of it. For this reason, our volunteer trips to Zambia are very important.
jennyzambia@yahoo.com
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Freddy Kapembwa, Director of operations in Zambia 
I started teaching in 1974 teaching primary classes [on an elementary level]
I taught for 4 years in this capacity then did training in the teaching of music field after which I taught at high schools and teacher training colleges from 1981 to 1996.
Later I did training as a teacher of English. I Became an inspector of schools{ English] for four years and eventually became a principal of a teachers college for 5 years before retiring in 2006. I have been married to Rose since 1974 to date we have six children the youngest will be 17 this month end [There is no hope for another one]. I was born in1951[or so I was told]
As can be seen I have been dealing with people issues since I was 23,and therefore people issues are very dear to me.
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Margaret Phiri, Co-signee Zambia's account
( Waiting for picture and bio)
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The Zambia's Scholarship Fund wished to acknowlege and thank the following volunteers:
Karen Trenholm, Kimo Lewis, Nancy Waterfall, Susan Winters, Deen Coleman,
Keli Kendall, T. G. and Julie Larson, Emily Loader, Burke Larson
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