ZAM 05 - NOURISHING HOPE
Project Location
The project takes place in the San Daniele Comboni Social Center founded to support the holistic education of women, youth and children. The San Daniele Comboni Social Center (SDCSDC) is located in the south of the Kanyama area and is considered one of the poorest, neediest and also unsafe areas of Lusaka. The project was born in 2016 and is managed by the Comboni Missionary Sisters.
Project description
By visiting families of children who attend the Center, you learn about the challenges they face every day. Many children do not attend school due to economic instability in the family, but thanks to the center they learn to read, write and do math, as well as do other activities such as art, music, computers, sports. Many of these children live with their grandmother because their parents died of AIDS, others live only with their mother or with their older brothers and sisters. If all goes well they eat one meal a day.
Having an empty stomach these children are unable to concentrate on the various activities and often leave the center to go to the fountain to fill their stomachs with water and thus calm their hunger pangs. Our desire is to be able to offer them a cup of milk and a slice of bread every morning for the next six months. These are children who need energy to grow and they are the future of Zambia.
Objectives
- To improve the nutrition of 250 children by offering them a nutritious breakfast.
- To improve their physical and mental health conditions and consequently their academic performance.
Beneficiaries
Direct: 250 children
Indirect: families and the local community
Referent sisters of the project: sr Paola Glira and sr Enza Carini
Project's costs