Malambo Mwachilenga dropped out of school three years ago when his father could no longer afford the cost of sending him.

He spent three years at home, feeling isolated from his friends.

"I was just seeing my friends are going to school, but me, I was not going to school, so I was feeling bad. Like, why me?" Mwachilenga, now 14, told Newsweek during a visit to his school in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, in July.

But Mwachilenga has now been given a second chance at education thanks to a pilot project aiming to help improve access to education for adolescent dropouts in the country's Lusaka, Kafue and Chibombo districts.

There are an estimated 200,000 adolescents in Zambia who are not in school for reasons including poverty, child labor and early pregnancy or marriage.

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