Zambia

Zambian Rainbow Development Foundation (ZRDF)

Zambia

Zambian Rainbow Development Foundation (ZRDF)

Community management and local sustainability

 

ZRDF provides practical and sustainable interventions to 22 communities in the Central Province of Zambia by promoting community-led and owned initiatives.

Their interventions increase access to education and health care, improve household incomes and food security through better farming methods and micro credit, and raise awareness of HIV prevention, testing, and treatment retention.

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Partners for Life Advancement and Education Promotion (PLAEP)

Zambia

Partners for Life Advancement and Education Promotion (PLAEP)             

Rich, abundant, longer lives

 

PLAEP began serving the local communities of Kitwe in 2005 by addressing the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS.

Today, their core activities include testing and prevention services, increasing access to quality education and health services, and economic and skills development programs particularly for women.  

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Ndola Nutrition Organization (NNO)

Zambia

Ndola Nutrition Organization (NNO)

Agents of change enhancing the well-being children, girls, and women

 

Since its inception in 2000, NNO has served 21 communities of Ndola and Luanshya providing services to fight poverty, HIV/AIDS, food insecurity, clean water deficiency, and social injustice.

The organisation places special emphasis on investing in children, women, and girls because their community-based interventions have shown that when you empower a girl or a woman, she becomes a catalyst for positive change.

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Lubuto Library Partners

Zambia

Lubuto Library Partners

Libraries transforming Africa’s next generations

 

Lubuto Library Partners runs libraries to promote literacy, education, and skills development and provides safe spaces for children and adolescents living in under resourced communities of Lusaka and Southern provinces. They also lead interventions focused on keeping girls in school and preventing early marriage.

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Children in Distress (CINDI) Kitwe Trust

Zambia

Children in Distress (CINDI) Kitwe Trust

Child protection, education, health, and nutrition

 

Children In Distress (CINDI) is reducing the vulnerability of children and their caregivers through household and community empowerment, and education in peri-urban communities in and around Kitwe.

Their programming includes an early childhood development (ECD) center and training caregivers on in-home-based ECD practices as well as providing educational support to children at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. They also provide access to vocational training for livelihood support.

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Tiny Tim and Friends

Zambia

Tiny Tim and Friends

Envisioning a world where no child has HIV

 

Tiny Tim and Friends is one of the few providers of specialist pediatric HIV services in Zambia. Their clinic, which sees 850+ patients each year, offers medical, nutritional, and psychosocial support to HIV+ children and pregnant women.

Tiny Tim and Friends works in communities across Lusaka providing HIV testing and prevention services, with an emphasis on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission as well as counselling and support groups.

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Primrose Community Health Organization

Zambia

Primrose Community Health Organization

Building healthy, climate resilient, productive, economically empowered, and sustainable communities

 

Primrose Community Health Organization (PRICHO) provides comprehensive, quality, cost-effective health services and friendly spaces where adolescents, young people, men, and women are able to make their own informed sexual reproductive health and rights choices based on dignity, equality, and social justice.

PRICHO serves the Kafue District and offers HIV prevention, detection, and treatment services, economic empowerment programs, and education support. Their community work includes challenging social norms and attitudes to achieve transformative change for girls and their communities.

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Africa Directions

Zambia

Africa Directions

Supporting Zambian youth

 

Africa Directions supports children and youth in high-density communities of Lusaka City and the rural Luapula province in Zambia, areas characterized by a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS.

Their activities are aimed to build the capacity, skills, and confidence of the young people they serve.

Every day over 500 youths, aged 4-26, pass through Africa Direction’s three community centers, accessing a wide range of services including sports, peer education, drama, sexual reproductive health services and information, voluntary counseling and testing, legal advice, life skills trainings and a host of other clubs and recreation activities.

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