OVC is one of the major issues being faced in Zambia. There is an estimated 750,000 to a
million children who are orphans because of AIDS (NAC, 2004). This is also related to most
of them dropping out of school and not accessing education (MoE, 2007). Most of the
respondents acknowledged that it’s increasingly becoming harder for OVC to access education
especially basic and high school, as fees attached to it are out of reach for most families.