One room, rippling outward

In a village like Simonga, a teenager steps off the dusty road and into a small, brightly painted room set apart from the busy clinic. Inside, the noise of the waiting area fades. There are books and games, a poster about staying in school, a circle of plastic chairs, and a slightly older student who knows what it is to feel uncertain and who asks, very simply and without judgment, how things are going. This is what you help create: a safe place where it is possible to ask hard questions, receive honest answers, and hear, maybe for the first time, that another future is possible. In communities where early pregnancy, addiction and school dropout can feel almost inevitable, that quiet, confidential space beside a rural clinic with its own entryway and peer counselors can change the course of a young life.

Changing Lives in Community

The impact of Tonga Teen Corners begins with one room and a handful of brave adolescents, and then it ripples outward. Teen ambassadors carry theater, song and conversation to even more remote villages. Nurses who once stood alone in overextended clinics now have youth-led allies. A former student leader like Boyd, once a regular in the Simonga center, finds himself at a university in Lusaka studying business, carrying his community’s hopes with him. The figures you will see on this page - total donors, amounts given, stories gathered year by year - are one way of measuring that impact. Another is the knowledge that each gift, large or small, 100% of which goes directly to build a youth-friendly space, has helped a young person in rural Zambia feel seen, protected and capable of building a life that is healthier, more hopeful and more fully their own.

By the numbers

2022

No fundraising as we were establishing our legal structure.

2023

12,000 USD from 10 donors

to open the first center.

2024

5,845 USD (via partner On Call Africa in the US) and 11,602 EUR (via new legal structure in France directly to TTC) from 20 donors

to open centers in Chidi and start work in Mapatizya.

2025

6,000 USD raised and 26,880 EUR raised from 24 donors (completed funding of Mapatizya, foundational funding for two new centers at 17,000 USD each and first-time support for the education of Boyd Nyundu to pursue a business administration degree at Eden University).

Annual Letter 2025: Rounding the Corner on Our Fourth and Fifth Youth-Friendly Spaces

Tis past year has brought immense change to our work in Zambia, as well as abundant evidence that our investments there—fueled by your incredible generosity—are already beginning to pay off in terms of the objectives we set a few years ago. When students have role models, support, peer counselors, and are invited to share knowledge and experiences in the youth-friendly spaces we build, everyone benefits from the resulting decrease in school leaving, teenage and unwanted preg

Nov 11, 2025

Annual Letter 2024: Sharing Knowledge and Building Together

In that first year, thanks to many of you, we raised the money to build our first center, to work with the peer ambassadors who would staff it, and to create the imagery and motto that would inspire all of us.

Nov 26, 2024

Annual Letter 2023: A Beacon of Hope in Simonga

Over the course of last year we raised, with the help of many of you receiving this letter, the funds to build our first youth center and to fill it with appropriate furniture, teaching tools, games, computers, and other supportive materials—the better to create a space of confidentiality, comfort, and supportive peer community for Zambian adolescents in search of a better life.

Nov 22, 2023