Three Dollars, Three Women, Three Opportunities

Three Dollars Three Women Three Opportunities "3-3-3 Campaign"

Chindwin Home Based Care-SLA is launching its "3-3-3 campaign" to reach out to marginalized women in Zambia's rural areas of Kabwe to "mobilze, organize and act" on three issues that affect their lives. In groups of three, women will begin a journey within their communities to reach out to other women and engage them in a small but effective movement building. With only $3 (16,000 Zambian Kwachas) you can make a difference. Click the link For more information on the "3-3-3 campaign.. or visit our website www.sloansassociation.org

You can support this campaign with $3 per month by clicking on our donate link on the side bar

Recreation- A POWERFUL COPING STRATEGY AMONG WOMEN

Most of us living in poverty are chronic worriers,particularly for women. We need to put food on the table, make sure our children go to school (if we can afford) and many other chores forced upon us.However, at Chindin Home Based Care-SLA www.sloansassociation.org , we are now trying to encourage women to exercise more often--and regularly. Studies have shown that chronic worriers who exercised appeared to be less likely to suffer depressive symptoms than non exercisers, but unfortunately in most communities we live in, we don't have tools for exercising. CHBC-SLA launched a women's netball team to get "women out there to exercise and forget about their worries that are making them unhealthy" Join our group by sponsoring women's netball tournaments with $20 for the annual year women's netball tournament on www.sloansassociation.org (secured papal online donation form)and help women come out of their worries, by exercising more and meet their peers to talk about how they can overcome some of their problems/challenges they face. Thank you

Esther Phiri-Zambia's Female Hero!!!!

Chindwin Home Based Care www.sloansassociation.org looks at Esther as a symbol of hope for other women and girls who feel hopelessness in society due to their gender and economic worse they face. Esther Phiri grew up helping her grandmother sell vegetables in a poor township in the Zambian capital Lusaka.Today she is a world boxing champion and a household name in Zambia.It is for this reason that our small organization is striving hard to build the resilience of women to stand up and be counted. In 2011, CHBC-SLA launched a child sponsorship programme to support children of mothers who have not been so lucky like Esther to get a career out of boxing or household livelihoods to put food on the table or send children to school. With only Zkw50,000($10) per month we can send girls to school while with a donation of ZKW500 ($100) we can support women groups to start livelihoods projects to help them become organized women's movements to help one another out of poverty. Join CHBC-SLA and make a difference this month.

PS: CHBC-SLA wishes Esther Phiri a quick recovery on her wrist as she prepares for the next fight soon to come. Viva Women Power!!!

The Story of Bupe Kunda

At the age of 13months, Bupe is now a big healthy girl in her early stages of walking. Thanks to CHBC-SLA and her passionate grandmother, Bupe has seen what she may not have expected. Her other brothers and sisters did not make it because of possibly HIV infection and other illnesses.Both her parents are HIV positive and unemployed and depend on Bupe's grandmother support.Her Grandmother is 64 years old and only depends on CHBC-SLA.

Bupe has been lucky to receive short term support and medication during the time of her mothers pregnancy, she was born negative. Now Bupe faces the challenge of her next few years of life before she turns 3 years and her needs become more and behind her grandmothers support. Bupe now needs passionate people to sponsor her to enable her have regular nutritional support. With only 20USD per month, Bupe can be see hope and a future. She loves to play with toys and enjoys drinking milk. Please visit our website on www.sloansassociation.org and make a difference by sponsoring Bupe and other children like her who need support.

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Child Sponsorship Launched

BUPE KUNDA celebrates her 1st birthday on 09-05-2011
CHBC-SLA launches Child Sponsorship programme. Only 100,000Zambian Kwachas (20US dollars) per month can send a child to school. Visit our Website at www.sloansassociation.org and sponsor a child. You can make a difference!!

Support our work and empower women to stand on thier own

This year, the Zambian Government presented the Anti-Gender Based Violence Bill to Parliament for enactment, by the Minister of Gender and Women in Development, Ms. Sarah Sayifwanda.The Minister said "once passed, the Act would provide for safe spaces for girls and women and protection orders for survivors of Gender Based Violence".

CHBC-SLA believes that these measures would enhance the legislative framework for the promotion of gender equity in education and employment. By playing a small role into the bigger problem, we can make a difference. CHBC-SLA supports women to become resilient through economic empowerment, and education. Join our work in Zambia by supporting women clubs to defend their rights. Visit our website on www.sloansassociation.org

The image below might seem dramatic, but it is true. Because of the economic challenges that most of us face in society and particularly a luck of employment opportunities in Kabwe, women and children are becoming more vulnerable to such abuse as copying strategy to relieve frustration among the men folk. This has to stop immediately!!!

The Green Model for Empowering Communities

Chindwin Home Based Care -SLA, with support from a US based charity-Color Me-In will this year embark on a unique model of empowering communities. With the realization that development will only succeed when we look ahead in the future and what is going to happen to our land, we beleive that our first step is to participate in programmes that support our natural resources.

Color Me-In will this year continue to support our holistic approach to social development through a green model concept. The model promotes local women groups to have an education on conservation tree planting and acctively participating in planting various drought resistence trees with the notion of replacing one tree at a time the 1000's of trees that are cut down for heat energy. "We do realize that tree cutting trees contribute to soil erosion and this affects our farming livelihoods", said one of the members at the just ended tree planting training session. The programmes also encourages members to plant trees that would benefit communities from traditional medicines when leaves are boiled and taken.

Kevin Duff and Andrea Woo Arrive in Zambia!!

Kevin Duff and Andrea Woo are new volunteers at CHBC-SLA.Since their arrival, the two have been busy reorienting themselves with the operation of the organization and catchment area. It is interesting to note that already the two have shown a passion to the work, and have donated internet access for CHBC-SLA to use. "This is a welcome move for CHBC-SLA, because it will enhance my capacity to spend time on the internet to communicate and research information that will help my work efficiently."
Wilson Ngosa Program Manager

A letter from the Program Manager

I might be fairly new to CHBC SLA but I am not new to program facilitation and to a focus on community empowerment.I have been working with the poor and marginalized communities for the past fifteen years in various portfolios.

There are many funders who see small grants to organizations like ours as being too risky or too time-and resource-intensive. At CHBC-SLA we see things differently. We believe in trust, learning and contributing to a small but effective movement for change at the grassroots and community level. At CHBC-SLA we have engaged in remarkably low-risk financial behaviour, because of the number of our eyes on the “cashbox”within the groups we promote.

Everyone is accountable to everyone. Our grassroot and institutional project indicators verify that CHBC-SLA is moving in the right direction.. I have every confidence that through our conceited efforts and our,open, sincere dialogue with stakeholders,CHBC-SLA will face the challenges of empowering the very poor at grassroots level to eradicate poverty. It may take a long time, but every step we take moves us closer to that desired goal.

My mission as Program Manager of this wonderful group of people is to join together to implement agendas of support and innovative efforts towards social change. Our change process allows for strong collaboration with other likeminded organizations and their unique, complementary advantages. Ours is, a change process allowing those in power to listen to us and to make policy changes benefiing the marginalized in society and those in need.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our players and supporters for their positive role in facilitating change and enabling CHC SLA to achieve this level of progress in 2010 and for a prosperous 2011

Wilson Ngosa
Program Manager