National Partnership For Development

Savings Loans Association in it's aim to contribute to the millennium development goals of reducing poverty strives to collaborate with other partners inorder to expand impact.

Working withe the St.Charles Lwanga Parish Health Clinic, the program offers health care services to thos who desperately need support but are not able to meet the costs associated with it.

As stipulated in the millennium development goals # 8, SLA is working with the Clinic to help serve more children and their families with basic health care such as the treament of opportunistic infections, skin rushes and Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV.

SLA gave a donation of 1m Kwachas ($220) for the purchase of medications at the clinic.

Donating the check is Ms Jean Nkatah, Tresurer of SLA to the Head Priest at St Charles Lwanga Parish Clinic. The donation would offer a treatment course of Malaria for almost 20 people.

Sponsor your name to support a women Group in Zambia

Savings loans Association (SLA) has now initiated a program that allows interested groups/individuals to sponsor a group of women to help them improve their livelihoods.The group will bare the name of the sponsor-example: " John Banda SLA Groups" We will then send you a picture of the group and offer you an opportunity to know how the life of the members will be impacted by your support. You will also be given an apportunity to directly contact your sponored group to start an innovative micro enterprise activity that will help them generate income to support other members of their family and send children to school

What YOU can do:

Sponsor a group of 5 women with a grant of $1,000 and ask them to provide you with a plan of action on how they will kick-start a basic micro enterprise initiative that will allow them to help improve their lives out of poverty. The group will have your name associated to the the group as the key sponsor of the group.

Share this information to others who would be interested to sponsor a group

Qualification for being a group member

1) Each member will have a minimum of 3 children under her care

2) Each member will meet the minimum requirements under the SLA selection creteria for support that includes amoung others : Classified as disproportionately poor with little or no source of income; Directly impacted by HIV/AIDS through the death of spouse

Be part of this initiative and help to change the lives of women who desperatly need help