| Country / Region: | Zambia / Beracah Orphan Care |
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| Project Summary: | Supporting families caring for orphans through educational support and micro enterprise. |
Partner Overview
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has left more than 15% of the population in Zambia infected with AIDS and more than one million orphans. After the death of their parents, many of the orphans are forced to move to rural villages to live with their extended families.
Gershome Kasongo has led Beracah Orphan Care since 2000. He was trained as a church planter and has planted 20 churches. Some of these local churches had the idea for the orphan progam. Extended families often care for several orphans at a time. This puts great strain on the household income.
Beracah Orphan Care supports these families so they can better care for the orphans. Alongside educational support, a micro loan project was recently started which provides training and loan capitol which will be used by families to create sustainable businesses. These businesses will enable them to provide adequately for everyone under the roof!
You can donate to Beracah Orphan Care right now by going to "Sponsor This Project Today" in the yellow right hand corner of your screen.
Community Development Proposal
Beracah will be supporting 180 children in 2012 and 50 new families will be brought onto the loan program. Beracah will coordinate a poultry vaccination campaign and will be stepping up its Church ministry training program.
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