Summary
Children's Town (CT) is a community-based school, training and rehabilitation center for orphans and vulnerable children. $30 provides a child's education materials for one year.
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In Zambia, 15% of 1.1 million children are orphans. 75,000 of these children live on the street; 25% have no home--they sleep on the streets or live in marketplaces. Due to HIV/AIDS and the breakdown of traditional family support systems, 33% of orphans live with elderly grandparents. Their basic rights are not guaranteed. Needs for shelter, security, food, health and education are not met, leading many children into prostitution, drugs and other harmful and dangerous practices.
Children are identified and assessed for referral to Children's Town (CT). They live in family groups and attend up to grade 9 at CT & grade 12 elsewhere. All children learn vocational skills.
This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Children get a quality basic education (most complete high school). They master professional skills: mixed farming/agriculture and applied arts. They will be nurtured in a family environment so will be ready to be responsible, productive citizens.
"My dream is to become a teacher, advocate and lobbyist; a voice of the voiceless, the children, so that they can have a place in society not as second class citizens."
- Misozi Mbewe, graduate and teacher trainee
Moses Zulu
Project Leader
PO Box 37661
Lusaka,
Zambia
+ 26097670864
Email:
DAPP in Zambia
9th Floor Provident House
Ndola,
Zambia
+ 260 95 994851
This project is located in
Zambia
and can also be found under
Education.
For more information about Zambia, read the Human Development Report on Zambia or the Wikipedia entry for Zambia.
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 3, 2005
By John Bwalya - Project Leader, August 30, 2007 04:10 PM
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