Zambia

Chikondi Children's Home

Chikondi Children’s Home is located in the capital city of Lusaka. Kids Alive opened this home in 2001 to help with the AIDS crisis that is threatening the children of Zambia. The residence is home to more than a dozen children and their house parents, all of whom have a safe and loving home, nutritious meals, an education, medical attention, and Christian discipleship.

Lilato Children's Homes

Since 2002, five different Kids Alive children’s homes have been established in Mongu, Zambia, a remote African village that has been devastated by the AIDS epidemic. Each Lilato Home houses about twelve children who are lovingly cared for by their house parents. Every child has a safe place to sleep, nutritious meals, medical attention and Christian discipleship. Most of the children at our homes are able to attend the government schools, while two of the homes are also used as a preschool during the day for the youngest children.

Kids Alive Emmanuel School

The Kids Alive Emmanual School is located in Katongo Village, near Mongu, in Zambia. It was opened in May 2003 under the direction of Manuelly Nyumbu, a local man with a calling to help vulnerable children. The school teaches grades one through seven, including Bible studies, chorus and other activities. Lunch is provided for the nearly 200 children who attend each day. The Emmanuel School would like to continue to improve the facilities and resources available to the children of Mongu, as funding permits. To help provide income, young women are taught sewing and the young men and boys learn carpentry skills at the School.

Kids Alive Jerusalem Center

The Kids Alive Jerusalem Center was started in conjunction with a local Zambian church after a local blind man approached Kids Alive and asked us to start a program for orphans and at-risk children in his community. The center now provides a formal, government education and a lunchtime meal to over 100 children in grades one through five. The children also receive Bible instruction and share a chorus and prayer time. The program hopes to expand to include more grade levels and a Kids Alive Families Together program, which will help single parents and grandparents care for their children and grandchildren while also providing vocational and parenting classes.

Misisi Families Together

Misisi Compound is notoriously known as the worst and most neglected slum in Lusaka. With one hundred thousand inhabitants and no public schools, police stations, or health clinics, this perception appears quite accurate.

Lack of proper hygiene, coupled with the overwhelming HIV/AIDS problem in the country, has led to a high proportion of sicknesses and deaths, resulting in scores of orphans.   Some of these orphans have a grandparent or other relative that tries to care for them, even though many of them are barely able to care for themselves; but even this is not always an option.  Up to one thousand children in Misisi live in “child-headed families” - orphaned brothers and sisters who depend only on each other for survival.

Kids Alive’s “Families Together” program in Misisi seeks to combat this problem through providing a unique and thoroughly holistic model of care. By merging the Care Center model that has been established successfully in several Kids Alive fields with a more ‘family-based focus’, our program aims to provide optimum benefit to the orphans and vulnerable children within Misisi Compound.  Our goal is to enable and empower these children’s guardians so that the children can stay at home, rather than enter the already overcrowded orphanage system in Zambia.  The plan is to begin modestly, with 25 children from the most dire of circumstances supported, but with the goal of expanding as funding, staffing, and facilities allow.