THE POWER OF EDUCATION Based on true story: Autobiography of Dr. Honest Mudenda

It was a tripartite arena to survive; Born from a less privileged family can sometimes be hell on earth. Usually children from poor families are the brilliant so that they put parents on lime light of failing to provide basic necessities. From Grade one to Seven, things were not sounding real as we could not know and understand the real part of having a good living and need for a parent to pay school fees as Primary school fees were either cheap or for free. It was at that time when we needed to test the benefit of passing and opportunity to have a parent to guardian who would walk shoulder high and praise support of their children. Parents of brilliant children also have a common prayer to have their children only know how to read and write then schooling can be replaced to other activities which can better their life style, usually there is a tendency of thinking that school drains their children's time for them. It is so impractical to have children who usual spend much of their time at school than doing jobs such as cattle herding, brick molding, farming, grass and fire wood collection and other men or female related chores, although this trend is slowly changing with the increase of technology and civilization. Born on the 26thJanuary, 1989 in Kalomo District of Southern Province of Zambia Went to Green Acres Primary School from 1993 to 2000, passed lower Secondary to Upper Secondary in 2001 and went to Rusangu Secondary School, Having been raised by a single mother who had no means of finding money as my Father died without leaving any investment or property that could be relied on for survival. It was all fully out of God's mercy that mum believed that going to Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) School would mean the faith and church found school would provide means of helping the less privileged children to get a chance of education. Through God's wonderful ways, I received a special means and plan of payment of my school fees, used to pay for myself through a Special Bursary scheme of growing Cabbages and supply to the school in payment of school fees. It was not an easy venture as I used to forgo holidays in order for me to grow cabbages, sometimes I would go home once in two years and be stranded without transport money to go back to school not until the dog could give birth to puppies for me to sell and raise money for my transport up to School. After completing my Secondary School in 2005, Life continued being hard but Since I had enough knowledge of growing Cabbage, I went to the village and continued with gardening which enabled me to raise money for a business capital which I managed for three (3) years. Through that business I managed to build my single mother a better shelter and also managed to pay for two Semesters at College. On 1st August, 2009 I joined the Zambia Police Service, graduated on 2nd August, 2010 and only served in for four months then enrolled at University of Africa Zambia (UoA) to pursue a Bachelor in Public Administration which I studied up to 20th December, 2013. Appointed as an Assistant Human Resource Officer for Paramilitary Battalion Headquarters whilst at Paramilitary Upon completion of my second Degree on 15th January, 2014 I enrolled for my Master's degree in Public Relations at Cavendish University Zambia (CUZ) until 28th December, 2014. Upon completion of my Master's degree, I was promoted to the Rank of Sergeant and transferred to Zambia Police Headquarters as an Assistant Public Relations Officer. I further went for my Doctor of Philosophy degree on 15th January, 2015 with Gideon Robert University Zambia where I completed my written Doctorate and thesis research and Dissertation submission and defense with a MERIT grade on 27th June, 2017 and graduated on 22 December 2017.

• | Author: Honest Mudenda
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: January 01, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 56 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1653986212
• | ISBN-13: 9781653986217