ZAM 33 - A HAND TO THE SICK
Project Location
The project is located on the outskirts of Lusaka, an overpopulated and impoverished area called Makeni Villa, where the Comboni Missionary Sisters run a Social Center attended daily by 150 children from poor families who survive through small, informal activities.
Project description
Many of the children attending the SDCSDC live with a grandmother or aunt and uncle—relatives who are unable to cover their basic needs, let alone medical expenses when they get sick. The project aims to offer the children and youth at the Center the opportunity to receive medical care and visits, medicine, glasses, and dental care, and in some cases, even covers transportation costs to the medical center.
Furthermore, not far from the Social Center is a refugee camp that the UN is supposed to assist, but which only manages to cover their food needs, and not always. The project aims to assist some refugees in need of medical care and medicine.
Objective
- Provide medical care to the children and young people at the SDCSDC center, as well as to some refugees from the nearby refugee camp
Beneficiaries
Direct: patients who do not have access to any health system
Indirect: families
Referents sisters of the project: sr Paola Glira and sr Enza Carini
Project's costs