We help a community of families served by the Mama Bakhita Cheshire Home, a center that provides free care and education for children with disabilities in Livingstone, Zambia. The poverty there is so profound that many cannot afford to buy even staple foods. The Mama Bakhita is sorely underfunded. To help them continue their fine work, we contribute to their upkeep and programs, have started a communal farm, and send aid in emergencies. We also find people to sponsor students' educations.
The Mama Bakhita is committed to providing free care for children with disabilities, but the funding they receive is insufficient to sustain this work. Major repairs and additional staff are needed. The families in the Mama Bakhita community struggle to provide basic necessities like food, shelter, and medical care; their government cannot help them. Although education could break the cycle of poverty, most cannot afford it.
Besides providing aid in emergencies, we have a three-pronged approach to helping this community thrive: 1. Supporting the Mama Bakhita with infrastructure needs and essential new programs and staff. 2. Continuing to develop Zambezi Farm to provide food and income for the women farmers. The land that our funding purchased and irrigated now yields vegetable & animal crops. 3. Sponsoring education. Many students we have sponsored return to use the skills they learned to help the community.
This project began with delivering food to help the community in a crisis. Now we offer more sustainable solutions: 1. Building the resources of the Mama Bakhita for its invaluable work serving the most vulnerable. 2. Providing food, income and work for the Zambezi Farmers, giving them the ability to control of their own destinies. 3. Strengthening human infrastructure through education; degreed community member earn more and have advanced skills with which to help their community.
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