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FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION
Annual Report First 4 Years:
2000–2003 Text-only Version
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GRANTS 2000 – 2003
Zambia
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Population
Population under age 18
HIV adult seroprevalence
Orphans as percent of all children
Total number of orphans
Percent of orphans due to AIDS
Total Firelight funding
Number of grants given
Number of grantee-partners
Percent of grantees regranted
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10.6 million
5.7 million
22%
18%
874,000
65%
$273,300
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24
21%
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ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF LUSAKA, Livingstone |
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2003 – $2,100 |
St. Margaret’s Community School,
run by the Anglican Diocese, provides education for vulnerable children
and brings together the community to increase awareness and build capacity
for caring for children in this community near Victoria Falls. Grant funding
enables the school to hold three community-based workshops on HIV/AIDS and
two community sensitization workshops on child rights. They are also sending
four youth to short courses in vegetable growing and chicken keeping and
engaging all students in small-scale income-generating activities.
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ANGLICAN STREET CHILDREN PROJECT, Lusaka |
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2002 – $5,000 |
The goal of the Anglican Street
Children Project is to strengthen vulnerable families, thus alleviating
the hardships that force children onto the streets. They also provide long-term
care for orphans. Grant money is being used to train children in a bakery
project.
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2001 – $5,000 |
The grant enables the Project to
provide counseling, school supplies (books, uniforms, pens, and shoes),
and other basic necessities for children, as well as providing outreach
to their caregivers.
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BWAFWANO COMMUNITY HOME-BASED CARE ORGANIZATION, Lusaka |
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2003 – $15,000 |
Bwafwano operates a clinic, a youth
peer educator program, a home-based care program, and a community school
from its compound in a poor area outside the capital city of Lusaka. As
a result of this grant, 20 youth are being trained as peer educators and
20 adult committee members are being trained in orphan monitoring, community
leadership, and mobilization. In addition, 50 community caregivers are receiving
training and 500 children are being fed at the community school.
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2001 – $18,000 |
Firelight funding enables 100 orphans
to attend a workshop in entrepreneurship as well as to join a small business
revolving fund. They are receiving skills training courses in tailoring,
batik, and handicrafts. The organization is initiating a peer education
program, and a community pharmacy.
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CARE FOR CHILDREN IN NEED (CAFCHIN), Lundazi |
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2003 – $10,000 |
Care for Children in Need is a community-based
organization located in an isolated, rural area. Grant funding is helping
them set up a community resource center. Funds also support a small loan
fund for caregivers and will help create a rural family network in the region.
These activities aim to promote discussion, support, and collaboration for
the provision of orphan care in their community.
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2001 – $8,000 |
Grant funds are helping CAFCHIN
develop their rural family development program which aims to provide education
in abuse prevention, counseling, life skills, and health promotion to orphans
and vulnerable children in the area.
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CHIKANTA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, Choma |
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2002 – $5,000 |
The primary focus of Chikanta is
the provision of free education, via community schools, to orphaned and
other disadvantaged children. Firelight funding is assisting Chikanta with
the ongoing management and maintenance of 10 of their 16 community schools
in this very rural location.
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CHILD CARE & ADOPTION SOCIETY, CHILENJE TRANSIT HOME,
Lusaka |
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2003 – $8,000 |
The Chilenje Transit Home is a temporary
shelter for orphans and vulnerable children. The home supports children
by reintegrating them into their biological families or securing adoptive
parents or foster care. They receive children from all over the country,
although most come from Lusaka. Grant funding is enabling the Society to
send two staff members to a six-month training in psychosocial counseling,
and to provide training to caregivers in hygiene, nutrition for HIV-positive
babies and children, first aid, and counseling for traumatized children.
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CHILD HOPE ORGANIZATION, Lusaka |
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2001 – $5,000 |
Funds support programming to address
the prevention of HIV/AIDS by holding educational workshops and promoting
income-generating projects for children.
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CHILDREN IN DISTRESS - KALOMO CENTRAL FAMILY HEALTH TRUST (CINDI-Kalomo),
Kalomo |
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2002 – $5,000 |
The overall mission of CINDI is
to support orphaned and vulnerable children. Currently, there are nine branches
of the organization operating throughout Zambia. Grant funds to the Kalomo
branch cover the facilitation of workshops on income-generating activities
for 50 families providing care to 250 orphans.
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CHILDREN IN DISTRESS IN KITWE (CINDI-Kitwe), Kitwe |
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2002 – $8,000 |
Grant funding is enabling CINDI-Kitwe
to organize anti-AIDS workshops for 500 youth and hold community group meetings
with children and caregivers on HIV/AIDS issues. In addition, they will
begin implementing program monitoring and evaluation activities.
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CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH, Choma |
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2002 – $10,000 |
This organization provides shelter,
care, and community support to vulnerable families in an area with approximately
65 widows and 150 orphans. Funds are supporting the women’s income-generating
clubs, providing school fees, contributing to the building of a community
school, and paying the salaries of two community workers.
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DEVELOPMENT AID FROM PEOPLE TO PEOPLE CHILDREN’S TOWN (DAPP), Malambanyama/Lusaka |
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2002 – $5,000 |
Two of the most important objectives
of DAPP are: 1) to strengthen the capacity of guardians, schools, and local
communities to provide orphans with appropriate and affordable care; and
2) to increase awareness regarding the rights and needs of orphans. Grant
funds help DAPP meet these objectives by offering psychosocial counseling
workshops to 40 caregivers and teachers and life skills workshops to 40
orphans and their caregivers. Funding also covers educational materials
and tools for income-generating activities.
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ECHOES OF MERCY, Chibuluma/Kitwe |
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2003 – $3,000 |
With these grant funds, Echoes of
Mercy assists 22 children with school fees, uniforms, and supplies. Echoes
of Mercy will also start a preschool to offer free basic education to 15
orphans and vulnerable children. The organization is working with local
churches to provide training in HIV/AIDS prevention and raise awareness
of orphans and vulnerable children.
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FLAME, Lusaka |
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2002 – $2,000 |
FLAME runs a community school and
temporary shelter catering largely to former street children and destitute
families. Firelight grant money covers improvements to the temporary shelter
that serves 40 children.
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FOUNTAIN OF HOPE (FOH), Lusaka |
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2003 – $30,000
Two-year grant |
Fountain of Hope operates a large
shelter and a variety of programs for street children in the heart of Lusaka.
They offer schooling, meals, counseling, and other services to as many as
600 displaced children. In addition, FOH’s staff members comb the city
at night looking for new children living on the streets who might need assistance
and checking in with other familiar street children to assess their health
and well-being. Funding is covering overhead and operational costs for running
this comprehensive outreach program.
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$20,000
Two-year grant |
A second, separate grant is providing
technical assistance for organizational development in project management,
financial planning, and strategic planning. It also allows Fountain of Hope
to send 13 staff members to receive further training in social work, business
entrepreneurship, counseling, teaching, cooking, accounting, child psychology,
and human resource management.
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2001 – $10,500 |
The grant enables FOH to provide
40 mothers with business skills training and seed money for small businesses.
The grant also pays for 32 children to attend one year of secondary school.
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$15,700 |
With grant funding, FOH is setting
up a separate shelter for 25 girl children and covering the costs of shelter
rental, allowances for 2 caretakers, and the purchase of bedding, clothes,
and food for the children.
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JESUS CARES MINISTRIES, Lusaka |
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2003 – $10,000 |
Jesus Cares Ministries works with
street children, child prostitutes, orphans, children forced into labor,
and any other children under duress and oppression. They currently run a
community school that provides education, health services, and basic necessities
to 150 children. However, because of overcrowding and rising demand, the
school needs to increase its capacity. With this grant, Jesus Cares Ministries
is increasing enrollment by 50 students by constructing an additional classroom
and purchasing additional benches and educational materials.
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KAOMA CHESHIRE COMMUNITY CARE CENTRE, Kaoma |
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2002 – $10,000 |
This Centre is the single source
of aid to orphaned children in a 5,000-square kilometer area in western
Zambia. It provides shelter to 88 children under the age of 5, half of whom
are infants under 1 year. In total, they reach 769 children with shelter,
food, or education. Funds are covering teachers’ salaries and supporting
10 family groups of children, allowing siblings to stay together.
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2001 – $20,000 |
This center faced closure in 2001
when a local bank failed and they lost nearly $50,000 in savings. Firelight
funding is helping them sustain the center and open a free community school
for orphans. In addition, grant funds are assisting Kaoma in offering support
to community members caring for vulnerable children.
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KARA COUNSELING AND TRAINING TRUST (KCTT), Lusaka |
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2003 – $10,000 |
Kara Counseling and Training Trust
provides counseling services, home-based care, and hospice care to HIV-affected
and infected people. They are using grant funding to expand their current
hospice program to provide a daycare and 24-hour hospice facility specifically
for children. Children who are well enough are brought to the facility during
the day and returned to their homes for the night. In addition, KCTT is
training existing hospice staff to care for children living with HIV/AIDS.
The grant also covers the cost of training in-school youth in peer education
skills, outreach, and the care and needs of children living with HIV/AIDS.
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LUAPULA FOUNDATION, Mansa |
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2003 – $5,000 |
Luapula Foundation was founded to
address the plight of AIDS orphans in the Manza community, a high-need,
underserved area. Grant funding covers food, school fees, and school supplies
for children. It also pays for agricultural supplies, such as seeds and
fertilizer, and other income-generating activities for caregivers.
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MULUMBO EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION,
Lusaka |
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2003 – $4,000 |
Mulumbo works with densely-populated,
rural communities to strengthen their capacity to provide community-based
childcare, health, and development services. Currently, they are working
in three regions (Lusaka Province, Central Province, and Western Province)
selected because of their high levels of orphaned and vulnerable children,
low levels of services, and community interest in cultivating early childcare
and development programs. With Firelight support, the Foundation is providing
integrated, child-focused training to 35 new members of its Child Care Community
Support Groups.
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NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMME
(NEAEP), Lusaka |
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2003 – $5,000 |
By offering assistance with income-generating
activities for caregivers and school fees and supplies for children, NEAEP
aims to help orphans stay in their communities of origin. They aim to build
the capacity of the community to care for children – household by household.
The funds cover school fees and supplies for 15 primary and 15 secondary
school pupils and enable NEAEP to train caregivers and community members
on orphan issues.
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NEW HORIZON ORPHANAGE, Lusaka |
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2002 – $2,000 |
New Horizon Orphanage strives to
meet the life skills and psychosocial needs of girl street children. This
grant is providing training in tailoring, baking, knitting, and housekeeping
for 25 girls, ages 7 to 14 years, who are not currently attending school
due to lack of financial support, and 10 caregivers.
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SENANGA ORPHAN DAY CENTRE, Senanga |
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2002 – $10,000 |
Firelight funding in this underserved,
rural area allows this school for 175 orphans to build 3 classrooms and
6 latrines, hold a planning workshop for teachers and management, purchase
textbooks, and send a teacher to a teacher training college.
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WILSON’S ORPHANS AND STREET KIDS CENTRE, Chingola |
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2003 – $3,000 |
The mission of this all-volunteer
organization is to address the needs of over 2,500 orphans and vulnerable
children in the Chingola region by providing primary education, food, clothing,
medical care, housing, and skills training. With Firelight funding, Wilson’s
is formalizing their community school and training 100 volunteers to work
in the school.
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ZAMBIA RED CROSS SOCIETY (ZRCS), Lusaka |
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2003– $4,000 |
The Zambia Red Cross Society, through
their Youth Skills Enterprises Initiative (YSEI), is recruiting and training
40 “on-the-street” youth and marginalized women with 3 skill-building
workshops. In addition, they are holding four HIV/AIDS and behavior change
workshops for all participants. After completion of the training, YSEI will
make small loans to all participants. In addition, they provide information
on sexual health, HIV/AIDS, and high-risk behaviors.
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Please note that this Annual Report covers the period from December 1,
1999 through September 30, 2003.
If you are interested in receiving a copy of this report, please send
an email to Cheryl Talley-Moon at Cheryl@firelightfoundation.org.
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