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Children with Future in Zambia

Children with Future in Zambia (CwFiZ) is a Zambian registered NGO, based in Kitwe, in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. Managing a strong network of projects in the Northern and North-Western Provinces of Zambia, the organization’s primary concerns are education and care of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), Women Empowerment issues, community initiatives on treatment support and prevention of HIV and AIDS, TB and Malaria.

 
CwFiZ’s strategic objectives are:
  • To provide continuous care (schooling, health support, nutritional and material support) to orphans and other vulnerable children in Zambia
  • To promote and conduct awareness, lobbying and advocacy programmes on issues of HIV and AIDS
  • To empower widows, grandmothers and other vulnerable women in Zambia through income generating activities and life skills
 
Education
Children with Future in Zambia is currently running five community schools located in Kitwe, Lumwana and Nakonde districts, providing education to 1,200 children. The initiative is to assist the government through Ministry of Education (MoE) in meeting the target of access to education for all by 2015, to alleviate the web of poverty and illiteracy that entraps approximately 70 percent of the national population and to mitigate the impact of the HIV/AIDS.
 
Women Empowerment
It is often said that, “When you educate a woman, you educate the whole family.” It is in the light of this saying that Children with Future in Zambia focuses not only on the educational development of disadvantaged children, but uniquely seeks to tackle the problems mothers or guardians of these children are facing through empowerment. Children with Future in Zambia believes that when you empower a woman, you empower everyone.
 
CwFiZ’s programs extend to providing opportunities for training in literacy, technical skills, and leadership for women; others for resources to enable the beneficiaries to enhance their economic well-being. The projects seek to assist in reducing lives devastated by HIV and AIDS and empower these women socially and economically.
 
HIV/AIDS
The overall goal of the Children with Future in Zambia is to contribute to the reduction of HIV and AIDS incidence and mitigate the impact thereof and to increase access to good education and health services in Zambia. The organisation seeks to achieve this goal by providing cumulative care for orphans and vulnerable children, financial and social support for women and through contributing to the world wide fight against HIV/AIDS.
 
This final point is pivotal in all of the organization’s projects, as the NGO believes that no programme can be successful in Sub-Saharan Africa without addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis, something which more than any other factor affects the chance for happiness and dignity for the people CwFiZ works with.  
 
 
HIV Campaign in Lumwana, North Western Zambia – A success story
 
CwFiZ is currently successfully implementing US$103,000 HIV project in Lumwana, North Western Zambia. The Lumwana HIV & AIDS campaign got off to a successful start with 186 people testing for HIV/ Aids at launch day, on 14th March 2009. Since the launch, 691 additional people have been tested to know their statuses, rendering a total of 877 people who now know their HIV status, giving an indication of very high HIV prevalence in the area, especially among the women.
 
The 62 Community Mobilizers trained through CwFiZ, which include 7 traditional healers, 15 Daily Observed Treatment Supporters (DOTS) and 40 Peer Educators, have been disseminating information about HIV and TB and support throughout Lumwana, reaching up to 65,000 community members. CwFiZ has also distributed about 55,000 condoms to Lumwana residents through the health clinics.
 
The progress of the project has so far impressed the donor and proved that the project is outstanding in the sense that, it is the only project among thousands of the projects funded by the Bristol-Myers Foundation which has managed to encourage more men going for Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) than women. Because of that, the project will be used as a case study.
 
 
Further activities the NGO is involved with include: 
  • Counselling and Memory Box Programme
  • Advocacy
  • Mainstreaming Disabled Children into the Health and Education Programme
  • HIV/AIDS and Gender
 
Children with Future in Zambia (CwFiZ) is affiliated with and works under the umbrella and guidance of larger organisations, which include Copperbelt Health Education Project (CHEP), Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (NZP+), Zambia National Aids Network (ZNAN) and National AIDS Council through District AIDS Task Force (DATF). CwFiZ is also affiliated to the Africanship AIDS Network, a regional HIV and AIDS program established to bring together SADC region civil society organizations united to fight AIDS.

 

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