This qualitative paper explored the experiences of female orphan learners from child-headed families in Zimbabwe rural primary schools who are working minimal jobs to pay for their academic fees. In Zimbabwe the experiences encountered by female orphan learners from child-headed families working minimal jobs in their quest to further their education have remained understudied and under theorized. I used resilience as theoretical framework and case study in this article. Twenty participants were selected through the purposive sampling technique and two focus groups discussions were used to collect data. The study found that most rural female orphan learners from rural child-headed families are financing their primary schools from the money they are getting from doing minimal jobs. This article recommended that rural community members should be empathetic towards vulnerable female learners from child-headed families through paying of their academic fees.