Projects
1) Kondanani Children’s Home
2) Supporting Kabwe Empowerment
for Land Ownership (SKELO)
3) Ubumi
Children’s Project
KONDANANI
CHILDREN’S HOME
The home is in Luanshya, Zambia. It has a population
of two hundred thousand people, with 75 thousand orphans.
Most of the orphaned households are headed by a sibling
13- 18 years of age.
The unemployment rate in Luanshya is 99%. Luanshya was
a booming copper mine town, with all the industries
such as the copper cable company ZAMEFA, the grilling
company MPELEMBE DRILLING, and all other business thrived
because the copper mine was doing well. In 1996 the
Zambian government sold the mine to BININA group of
companies, within a few years the mine was ground to
a stop, most of the shafts were closed down and 99.5
% of the people lost their jobs. The two hospitals and
clinics run by the mine closed down. One of the hospitals
ROAN Antelope hospitals has being taken over by the
government, like all government hospitals there are
no medicines, equipment or personnel, Luanshya hospital
is still open with a skeleton staff. 99% of the registered
and doctors have left Luanshya.
There is a high rate of suicide and depression related
deaths in Luanshya. While the international organization
that render help to orphans have concentrated on larger
cities like Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe, Luanshya has been
ignored.
OUR MISSION
As
children are the most valuable resource and future of
a nation Kondanani children’s home is committed
to alleviate the suffering of children who have lost
their parents, by providing all the needs a child has,
to facilitate a healthy, safe, happy, and love filled
environment to make them grow into stable, confident
and productive adults.
Our other mission is to help the community relearn new
ways to fight disease and poverty, by working together
as one whole unity by reeducation, training and offering
all the necessary resources to make a disease, poverty
free society, where women are strong self reliant and
can take care of their families. We will work with professionals,
volunteers and the clergy who are dedicated to make
Zambia disease free with a strong economy that will
make looking after hundred of thousands of orphans an
easier and affordable task.
BELIEFS
SECTION 1; Kondanani Children’s
Home is dedicated to the belief that Children are the
most priceless, valuable resource of any society and
also the most vulnerable; and that they must be no excuse
to let children suffer by the hands of preventable disease,
hunger, homelessness, poverty and the loss of parents.
And therefore, the most important and immediate purpose
of the organization is to alleviate suffering of children.
SECTION
2; The organization also believes that to fight
HIV/AIDS we must fight POVERTY. To fight poverty we
must empower woman, by providing literacy classes, further
training in various careers including small business,
also provide funds for these small business. Empowering
women with other alternatives of earning a living other
than dependency on men, which leads to a reduction of
HIV infection in women.
SECTION 3; We also believe that to work with the community
at large by reeducating the entire community on new
ways to fight the pandemic HIV/AIDS is the only way
that will reduce the spread of HIV and save more lives.
Please donate clothes, shoes, medicines, food, toys,
school bags, winter clothing, blankets and books to
KoCHo. The address is:
KONDANANI
CHILDREN’S HOME
P.O.BOX 90233
LUANSHYA,
ZAMBIA.
Please what you can to help; even one pair of shoes
or a dress - it does not matter it will make one child’s
life better!
Supporting
Kabwe Empowerment for Land Ownership (SKELO)
Mission
Statement
To
provide food security to vulnerable households through
ecological and sustainable agricultural practices among
the local women subsistence farmers in central province
of Zambia.
Objectives
·
To enhance food productivity and security to 50 women’s
farmers groups by 2010 in the district of Kabwe, central
province of Zambia.
· To provide care and support to 250 children
in Kabwe district, central province of Zambia by 2010,
who are orphaned and are being supported by single parents
with a key focus on women households affected by HIV/AIDS
Background
Information
Supporting
Kabwe Empowerment for Land Ownership (SKELO) was established
in 2004 to provide assistance to women subsistence farmers
affected by HIV/AIDS.
Based in Zambia’s Kabwe district with a population
of XXXX, and with HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of %- the
epidemic, like in many parts of the country, has crippled
many households, eroding away the masculine population.
In most cases, families are headed by women households.
Food production at subsistence level has drastically
dropped due to the fact that most of the bread winners
have died living windows to fend for themselves and
looking after children in their households. Women are
forced to work hard in the field to such an extent that
they neglect other responsibilities, such as providing
love and family support to their children .In worst
scenarios, women are forced to indulge in prostitution
as a means of raising money for food at household level.
Children have been the victim of this scenario and in
most cases, children are forced to work in the fields
and abandon their legal rights of an education and love.
It is for this reason that SKELO was formed with a group
of women subsistence farmers to act as a support group
for women who have lost their families and are unable
to produce enough food to look after their families
.This is done in 4 key areas of support ;
·
Training in Income Generation
· Provision of farming inputs
· Provision of care and support to women headed
households in order to meet some of the basic needs
of the children in those households.
What
we do
· We facilitate agriculture extension services
to local subsistence farmers groups.
· We provide local inputs to local subsistence
farmers groups.(seeds and fertilizers where a need arises)
· We provide training in basic income generating
activities at household levels for women households
to enhance food security.
· We provide community support systems to vulnerable
households who are unable to cope with the demand on
the agriculture fields.
· We help women headed households to meet the
needs of children so that the children are not exploited
on the agriculture fields but go to school and fulfill
their basic rights.
Partners
NWAA
works with a number of groups and organizations that
contribute to the organizations long term goals. Our
partners are locally and international based.
Local
Authority
~
Local Government ministry of lands
~ Local Government ministry of agriculture
Organizations
~
Save Zambia’s
Future organization
~ World Food Program
~ CLUSA
News
We have just published our first news letter which can
be found on the website
Contact us
Mrs
Mary Kombe
Director
SKELO
C/0 Box 80250
St Luanga Parish
Site and Service
Kabwe.
Organizational
development partners
SaZaFFo
believes in networking and collaboration. The following
are groups and partners that are part of our mission
to help the children of Zambia. :
One
World Africa
www.oneowrldafrica.org
