Electricity generation enthusiast, Lusaka boy gets a scholarship

By Staff Reporter, LUSAKA 

A Lusaka based boy with good understanding of how electricity is generated from Kariba Dam has been offered a scholarship by well wishers for showing interest in power generation process. 

Efforts to identify the boy by his real names proved futile by press time otherwise he is usually found at Chilenje market.

For two weeks now the boy is nowhere to be seen after his powerful presentation on electricity generation and distribution went viral on social media.

According to reports made available to WM Media by concerned stakeholders, the naturally intelligent boy is vulnerable and lack proper formal education foundation.

The reports indicate that the family for the boy struggle to make ends meet hence his poor education foundation. 

Both parents of the boy are not into formal employment as they only fend through repairing shoes and selling vegetables, father and mother respectively. 

Two weeks ago, a video  went viral on social in which the subject (boy) is seen explaining to the public at one of the local markets how ZESCO power is generated from Kariba Dam into residential homes. 

And concerned parties have since called on ZESCO management to sponsor such innovate and creative young people. 

In a phone interview with WM Media on Friday, a Lusaka based child literacy activist, Buumba Malambo says her foundation is on the ground looking for the boy. 

She says after watching a video her foundation decided to offer him a scholarship and that they are arranging all the necessary logistics to take the boy to a boarding school. 

Ms. Malambo who is the Executive Director for 'Buumbalambo Foundation for the Children in need' adds that the boy deserve to go to school. 

“This boy is very intelligent and very gifted today shall we not just marvel and talk but act by cultivating in our own instead of bring each other down,” she says. 

Ms. Malambo suggests that if people invested in children like this little boy, Zambia could be a better place. 

“We all have the ability to create a great solution for our country by cultivating in children like this little boy,” she suggests, adding that the role of her charity is to simply ensure that all the donations sent to her foundation are channeled to the education of young people like the subject and count it a legacy to be part of history making. 

Meanwhile another concerned stakeholder only identified as Mr. Chikono has praised government for promoting local languages in primary schools. 

“This is why teaching mother tongue is still very relevant and important. While I don't get what he is saying, its such a joy to see this boy proudly and confidently articulate his understanding of the electricity generation process so well in his own mother tongue”, he said.