Accepting Failure is Critical for Success

Chindwin Home Based Care- SLA admits that accepting failure is vital for any grassroots organization to mature. In the year ending 2011, we have realized that not everything came so easy on our path. But in order to realize that we failed to reach our priorities, we need to accept failure. As we begin our year, we'll work on our failures and take them as a learning opportunity. We are curious to hear from our readers, how they embrace failure in the work they do. If we planned to reach out to 10 women groups to help them improve their livelihoods and at the end of the year women did not change as we had anticipated, we put on our breaks and revisit why we failed so that we mitigate the same problem the following year.

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!!