Avivyo Kwene

We have worked together on the tennis court and I am writing to ask you if we may work together again, but this time on a humanitarian basis.  
 
In 2012 formed a nonprofit organization named So Chabe.  Our mission is to help lift children out of poverty who live in Zambia, my home country, by ensuring that girls and boys stay in school and complete their education.  One way to do this, we believe, is by providing tennis as an after-school activity.  
 
Today we are on a mission to help more than 200 children living in the northern province where the poverty level is 79.9%.  We have worked with six of these children in Zambia and are happy to report that two are enrolled at a university in China, three have graduated from high school and are preparing to go on to college, and one continues to play tennis while finishing high school.  
 
You may not know this, but tennis scholarships brought 4 of my brothers I to the United States years ago.  Our father had been introduced to the sport by missionaries in our village, and it quickly became his passion.  He, in turn, taught my siblings and I to play which, ultimately, afforded each of us an opportunity for a better life.  My siblings and I continue to make a living teaching tennis in the U.S. and in Zambia, and I want to do the same for others living in my village.
 
Our immediate goal is to raise $3,500 which will fund two modified tennis courts per school, and we plan to work with four schools.  My father, in fact, attended a few of these schools.  I hope you can help.  I want to pay forward my good fortune to others in my village was well as honor my father.  I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for his influence and support.
 
Please help us reach our goal and make my dream come true.  Any amount will help. So Chabe is a qualified 501c(3) nonprofit organization, so your donations are tax-deductible.   Checks can also be made payable to So Chabe Inc. and mailed to 21 Christiano Street, Unit A, Cos Cob CT, 06807.
 
Please feel free to call or email me if you’d like to discuss my effort further. Thanking you in anticipation.
 
Sincerely, 
 
 
Teza Simunyola 
 
So Chabe
www.sochabe.com
 
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.” — Nelson Mandela from his famous Make Poverty History speech