We are so happy to share with you the new develoment to our Community School, apart from providing basic education to the Orphans, now there are a good number of other activities which are ta k ing place at this School; the Health program which was started a year ago with the help from our two IRFF volunteers from Europe, Eliska from Slovakia and Lara from Slovenia, has advanced a great deal.

When the Ministry of Health learnt of this program, they were so inspired to come in and offer to start a Mobile Clinic, which is a month old now, a Doctor and two Nurses come two times in a week to check on the sick children as well as adults at our Community School, we also receive Soya Meal from business houses from which we make porridge for the children once a week , which is going a long way in promoting good health in the community.

Due to the good relationship we have with the community of Mackenzie, we have had adults who have never been to school request for lessons on how to read and write, as well as HIV/AIDS, therefore we have started evening classes for adults, and they are held three times in a wee k right at our Community School.

As you can see the Community School has become a source of many activities and hope for the Community.

IRFF Zambia is also networking with other NGOs in various activities and currently we are wor k ing with RAINBOW (a group of NGOs) in distribution of relief food to the drought victims, the aged and the disabled people in our Country.

This program will go on for the whole year 2003, as can be seen from the photos, these people live in remote areas and their standard of life is very low,they usually depend on the crops they grow during the rainny season to feed themselves ( hand to mouth ).Most of the aged have no one to ta k e care of them and at their age do not have much strength and with the drought it has made life very difficult for them,some have been staying without meals for two days,untill Rainbow came up with this program of relief food,which is distributed once in a month to the affected people.

This has given us more opportunity to be of service to the people who are truely in need and we have seen how distractive drought can be to human life and the environment.

Nicholas Chisha

Director, IRFF ZAMBIA    

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