Miss Natasha Chisense, 25, studying for a Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Cavendish University in Lusaka, has successfully completed the first two years of her four-year course.
Natasha writes: ‘I took up this course because I feel very passionate about business. I see business opportunities everywhere around me. Hence, I believe that with business administration I will develop a broad knowledge and understanding of business operations and acquire the skills needed such as marketing, understanding customer needs and wants, finance, strategies used in business etc. I completed my secondary school in 2012. I have not been able to achieve my aspirations (studies) due to financial constraints in my family. I am the last born in a family of eight. In as much as my parents managed to educate my older siblings with struggles here and there; my situation has been worse. My father was a retired teacher who was bedridden for a long time. My father retired in 2004 when I was just in grade four. And my mother is a retired nurse, she too retired in 2007 when I was in grade seven. Life has therefore, not been easy. My siblings have their own families now hence not much help comes from them. Each one has their own burdens to deal with. Being the last born, I want to complete my studies and get a job so that I can give full support to my parents. And I also intend to help contribute and make donations to organizations like Zambia Society Trust who help eradicate poverty and put smiles on people in the future. From childhood my dream has always been to have an orphanage and a home for the homeless old people because it always pains me to see them so helpless and hopeless.’