written by Aaron Chilunjika, from Chisomo James is a 17 yrs old boy coming from Nakonde in Northern province of Zambia. He is a double orphan, coming from a family of 5 children and he being the 3rd born. When both his parents passed he was taken in by the…
written by Aaron Chilunjika from Chisomo, Zambia This is 19yrs old Rose who has been coming to Chisomo Drop-In centre since she was 15yrs old. She is a single orphan since the death of her father and her mother is very vulnerable and lives in poverty. Rose comes from a…
The Mothers Program focuses on empowering women to prevent children from ending up on the streets. Women are trained in various income-generating skills. Skills such as Making reusable sanitary pads, peanut butter making, tie and dye, smoking of fish and chicken, sewing and crocheting are taught so that the women…
The Chisomo Drop-In Center, in the heart of Lusaka, Zambia, provides daily support to children still living on the streets, offering food, medical care, counseling, and educational activities. In 2024, the center provided support for 2880 young people, of which 487 were girls and 2403 were boys. 1,382,400 hot meals…
The Chisomo transition home is in the suburbs of Lusaka, and has space for 40 children. All of the children came to Chisomo from the streets of Lusaka, some via the Chisomo drop-in centre, and some via the police when they do one of their ‘street-kid clearance sweeps’. The purpose…
The Chisomo project in Lusaka, Zambia, has been supporting young people who are connected with the streets for many years. For some they might be living on the streets, others are spending their daytimes begging and hawking on the streets and returning home at night. Chisomo also supports siblings who…
Thanks to the tireless work of the staff and volunteers at Chisomo in Lusaka, Zambia, life isn’t forever hopeless for children who find themselves living on the streets of the city. This can be shown by the following two images. Both are of youngsters who, in September 2021 were living…
In Zambia, the norm for secondary schooling is to go to a school that is away from where your home is and attend as a boarder. So, the start of a new term for secondary school students involves packing up the required belongings and travelling a distance. For the older…
This story from Chisomo in Zambia is definitely a cause for celebration and thanks. A Lusaka company calledGrow Drip (Home – Grow Drip Zambia (grow-drip.com)) is generously providing Chisomo with an irrigation system and seedlings for their children’s shelter at Makeni. The aim is to help them to become self-sufficient…
CRED Trustee Steve Bridgeman, and his wife Jane, talk about their sabattical which they are spending with Chisomo project, in Zambia ‘Hi! We are Jane and Steve Bridgeman, from Littlehampton in England. We have both taken sabbaticals from our work in education in the UK and are spending the year…
