Mission and Purpose of Child-Hope Zambia Introduction
Child-Hope Zambia is a non profit; non governmental organization which was registered under the society Act of Zambia in 1999 whose registration number is ORS/102/35/2091. Our focus on working towards attaining rural child survival, poverty alleviation and reducing the escalating transmission of HIV/AIDS pandemic which has left many children orphans
Child-Hope operates in the southern province of Zambia around Chief Mwanachingwala`s area in Magoye. The area the includes following villages: Simwaba, Naleza, Manyana, Chalimbana, Dindi and Itebe. It is approximately 165km from the capital city, Lusaka. The organization’s secretariat is based in Lusaka.
Since its establishment in August 1998, Child-Hope Zambia has received good response from the people. The initial goal was focused on improving the living standards of orphans and other vulnerable children and to reduce poverty among them.
However, because of the continuous increase in the number of children becoming orphaned due to their parents dying of HIV/AIDS and its related diseases, Child-Hope Zambia also started embarking on HIV/AIDS awareness programmes. However, Child-Hope programmes supported children with the word of God to encourage and to let them know that whatever situation they were going through, one day God would come through for them. Hence, Child-Hope has also been helping the children to grow up as God fearing. To date, Child-Hope programmes have restored a lot of hope to the children because they know that somebody somewhere cares for them.
Child-Hope covers the following villages around Chief Mwanachingwala: Simwaba, Naleza, Manyana, Chalimbana, Dindi and Itebe.In each village Child-Hope is operating, there are village committees headed by the village chairperson. This helps Child-Hope activities go as planed since these committees are involved in the day to day running of the activities. However, these committees work as volunteers. In each village committee, there are 10 members. There is a lot to be done for the children in the rural areas. Given enough resources, Child-Hope would expand its programmes to the other villages within the Chiefdom since there are a lot of requests to do so from the other villages.Child-Hope supports over 600 children in the above villages mentioned. Most of them are those affected by HIV/AIDS.
Mission and Purpose
The mission of Child-Hope Zambia is to reduce poverty, HIV/AIDS and improve the living standards of rural children in Zambia. This is done through equipping the children and the parents with different skills and knowledge that will enable them contribute to their well being. In order for Child-Hope to help the communities realize their dreams, the following needs are essential for the support of the children: Education, health, nutrition, security, protection and religious support. Child-Hope strives to realize the dreams and hopes for orphans and other vulnerable children in the rural communities. However, Child-Hope Zambia can not do this alone as it needs concerted efforts from the donors, church ministries, well-wishers, individuals, companies, foundations etc. This will help the organization realize the dream of the children. Child-Hope has continued serving the rural children even in places that have never been reached before by other NGOs.So far, Child-Hope is the only organization that has direct programmes on children in this Chiefdom. The organization is really determined to continue restoring hope to the children who had lost it as a result of loosing their parents.Child-Hope currently supports over 600 children in Mazabuka rural in Chief Mwanachingwala`s area of Magoye,Zambia. May God increase wherever you remove for the seek of supporting our children who are really in need.
Child-Hope has the following activities in trying to fulfill its objectives:
-Putting up buildings for Early Childhood Development Classes (Day Care Centers) through community participation shared among 15 villages. Under this, the community undergoes mobilization for community development training so as to support mobilization and local resource sourcing. However, these buildings are also used by the primary school going children in the afternoon because government rural schools do not have enough classroom blocks.
-Establishing Day Care Centers and Pre-Schools for young children and literacy classes for adults to improve their reading and writing skills.
-Child feeding programmes to support and encourage orphans and other vulnerable children to attend school.
-Health support for Pre-School and Primary School children. This support the school health and nutrition component of the project through availing common drugs to the children e.g. de-worming drugs, anti malaria ,anti bilharzias,panadol and aspirin. On the health component, CHILDHOPE works with the nearest health centers.
-Income generating activities to improve the community capacity in supporting their children. Activities include mothers clubs who sew different children’s clothes, jerseys, uniforms and table clothes. Youth clubs undertaking piggery, goat rearing skills development activities and gardening. These Income generating activities ensure sustainability of the project.
-HIV/AIDS adolescent youth awareness and education program through peer education and moral upbringing to fight HIV/AIDS in the rural communities. Here, the organization also uses sport to disseminate information about HIV/AIDS. It uses sport like football, netball and volleyball. Villages compete against each other and the best teams get prices. This encourages the communities to do more in HIV/AIDS activities.Child-Hope also uses drama, poems and songs to disseminate information about HIV/AIDS. Peer educators have been trained to handle most of the HIV/AIDS programmes in the communities.
-Provision of food and medicines to the people living with HIV/AIDS. On the provision of medicines to the people living with HIV/AIDS, Child-Hope avails panadol, aspirin. ORS and procaine penicillin. These drugs suppress other diseases that may affect the bodies of the people living with HIV/AIDS due to weak anti bodies caused by HIV/AIDS.
-Home visits to the people living with HIV/AIDS through Child-Hope caregivers. The caregivers feed, wash and clean the homes of the people living with HIV/AIDS that do not have the energy to do this for themselves as a result of sickness. The caregivers also help in turning the bodies and applying medicine to the people living with HIV/AIDS that have developed sores due to over sleeping on one side.
-Gender training workshops for community members to support effective and gender sensitive development. This has helped the rural communities especially the women whose Rights were not considered before.
-Provision of food and nutritional security of the malnourished children directly or indirectly affected by HIV/AIDS.
-Provision of immediate nutritional support to the children identified as acutely malnourished through a monitored supplementary feeding program.
-Establishing communal gardens which increase the food and nutritional security of the malnourished children identified as stunted. 80% of the vegetables in the gardens are consumed by the children and 20% of the vegetables are being sold for the continuation of purchase of seed for gardening.
-Ongoing sponsorship of some children attending basic education and distribution of impregnated bed nets so as to reduce the high rates of malaria cases among the children.
-Provision of maize seed and fertilizer to the families that are hard to reach due to socio-economic situation in which they exist.
-Aggressive campaign on girl child education and the rights of a child.e 1. Mission and Purpose of Child-Hope Zambia 2. History of Child-Hope Zambia 3. Child-Hope Zambia Community 4. Contact Child-Hope Zambia 5. Support Child-Hope Zambia 6. Child-Hope Zambia’s Online Resources | 
