Meet Woodgate

Woodgate is sponsored by ZMF-C. He is in grade 12 at Namwianga Christian Secondary School. He is a village boy - but the great thing about attending a boarding school in Zambia is everyone wears uniforms and from Monday to Friday you can't tell the village boy from the city kids, unless you listen closely. Village kids always sound like village kids - but the uniforms have a way of levelling out the playing ground.

Woodgate is a village boy and a very sweet one! His village is near to where I stay and I know his granny as well as quite a few other family members.

Woodgate has been sponsored since he was a young boy in Basic School and I often wondered how he'd ever make it through this education system. But he has, and he's doing very well academically! He's worked very hard and taken advantage of every opportunity. For the year 2011, his teachers have assigned him the title of "spiritual leader" which means Woodgate needs to organize the student body so that chapel time is coordinated. He finds speakers (other pupils, song leaders...) as well he organizes choirs to go to various village churches. Woodgate is quiet and humble and completely reliable.

He wants to study agriculture in college.

After Woodgate washed the Isuzu for me on Saturday (for some cash, peanut butter buns, tea, and a whack of homemade cookies) I gave him a computer lesson. His hands are very big - he needs a bigger keyboard than this one!
He studies computer at his school, but there are not enough working computers, so he is only learning theory and had not yet learned how to turn on the computer. So...now he can!