Kids Alive International - Christian Care for Children at Risk

Jimmie and Ivy Kongwa
Administrators & Home Managers

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Jimmie and Ivy Kongwa are Kids Alive home managers of The Chikondi Children's Home & Preschool in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. They 13 children they oversee have been rescued from destitute conditions and are now thriving in elementary school. Zambia is wracked by the effects of the AIDS pandemic with hundreds of thousands of children having lost one or both parents and even extended family members.

The Kongwas are also responsible for the administrative oversight of Kids Alive Zambia, which includes four* children's homes in Mongu (Lilato Two, Lilato Three, Lilato Four, Emmanuel Kids Alive Centre) and a village project in western Zambia.

This couple is key to the success and expansion of our ministry in Zambia, which we hope to grow to over 1,000 children by 2010.

At 10 months of age, their firstborn, Grace, passed away from health complications. In the fall of 2004, the Kongwas had another baby and named her Rachel.

*The Lilato Five will open the spring of 2005 caring for five babies. Funding is still being sought, but the house has been rented and house parents identified.