February 2012, Bournemouth: CONTESA has today announced the enhancement of the CONTESA Education Sponsorship Programme, which will sponsor the secondary education of students from Family Futures Community School, Kabwe and Messiah Mission Community School in Lusaka. These 2 CONTESA supported schools take over 1300 children who would otherwise be unable to afford even the modest [...]
The Peter McDermott Skills Block at Kabwe is going up fast and is now approaching the roof . Tools for Self Reliance (TFSR) have shipped the tools for the building, carpentry and metalwork skills last week, these should arrive on-site towards the end of January 2012. Unfortunately TFSR were not able to supply sewing machines [...]
Continue reading about Peter McDermott Skills Block at Kabwe Nears Completion
The Kabwe Home Based Care (HBC) Programme supported by CONTESA continues to operate very smoothly and effectively although as usual it throws upome heart breaking cases. During the visit Esnat met the team and inspected the 5 new bicycles (thank you for your generous donations), see bottom photo. During this visit a 7 year [...]
The Post one of Zambia’s leading newspapers today reported that Zambia currently has over 1.6 million orphans and vulnerable children but added that this was likely to be an under-estimate. The data is based recent research conducted by the Institute of Economic and Social Research at UNZA (University of Zambia) and Boston University, Centre for International [...]
Continue reading about ZAMBIA currently has over 1,600,000 orphans and vulnerable children
In the first part of our blog we explained how the kind and generous donations from our supporters have helped fund Our Lady’s Hospice in Kalinglinga. In this second post we want to highlight how the efforts of CONTESA and Our Lady’s Hospice have allowed children infected with HIV can start to have a normal [...]