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| Peer health educator. |
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| Let's talk about ... you - Self Esteem, Relationships, Adolescence, Rights of the Child, Teenage Pregnancy. |
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| Lunch time! Evans Chance with his midday meal, which is paid for by Cecily's Fund. |
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| Mable Mugala, Technical Support Officer at CHEP, taking part in a health education class at Bupe Basic School. |
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Partners
Cecily's Fund has three partners: Hodi, CHEP and Bwafwano.
Our relationship with all three is based on the shared importance we put on accountability. We have to know that the money we send our partners is being spent exactly as promised - and to that end we pay them monitoring visits and ensure that they are formally audited. We receive regular monthly updates on each programme.
In return, we work with our partners not only to fund the Cecily's Fund programmes, but also to help them to develop as independent organisations. We support key staff, training and IT developments and we are always keen to use our contacts to put our partners in touch with new funders.
Working in this way enables us to act as a direct bridge from donors in the UK and elsewhere to Zambian communities.
Hodi
In the eight years that Cecily's Fund has been in existence, our programmes have grown rapidly, particularly our support of orphaned and vulnerable children in Kitwe. We continually review and regularly monitor all our programmes, in order to be accountable to our donors and to use our funds as effectively as possible.
In early 2007 we began working with a new Zambian partner organisation, Hodi, to continue our support of children at primary and secondary schools in the Kitwe area, and to run our teacher training programme. We are currently working with 62 schools, each of which has two volunteer contact teachers. These teachers attend training workshops in early February and then liaise with Hodi and the children's guardians, and help to identify any problems with the attendance of the children we support.
Hodi was set up in 1996 and has an impressive record of providing support for community-based organisations, with the aim of encouraging self-sufficiency. It has been involved in food security and income generation programmes; has built 16 primary schools; and has particular experience of helping young people out of child labour and back into school. Hodi has also worked with refugees in Zambia, where it is responsible for HIV prevention and positive-living activities in transient communities. Hodi operates primarily in rural areas, in five of Zambia's regions: Southern, Central, Copperbelt, Luapala and Northern provinces.
In 2007, we are supporting around 6,600 children at primary level and 3,000 at secondary level. Click here to find out more about our education programme.
CHEP- The Copperbelt Health Education Project
CHEP was set up in 1988 in response to the rapidly emerging problem of HIV/AIDS in Zambia and in the Copperbelt region in particular. Its aim is to inform and educate people in the area about AIDS and encourage them to adopt healthy, safe behaviour. As well as running its own programmes, it acts as a support centre for other smaller health awareness groups that need materials and training. It draws on best practice from all over Africa and in turn is seen as a generator of best practice.
CHEP runs the Cecily's Fund peer health education programme.
Bwafwano
Bwafwano School is on the outskirts of Lusaka. The school is part of a larger organisation which cares for those with HIV/AIDS and their dependents. Bwafwano means 'helping one another' - it was set up by a local nurse and is run by volunteers in the area.
Bwafwano forms part of Cecily's Fund's education programme for orphans. Cecily's Fund pays the salaries of the three teachers, a head teacher and a matron who work back-to-back shifts to ensure all 650 children are taught. We also provide the pupils with a midday meal of maize and vegetables. For many children it is their only meal of the day and without it they are too hungry to concentrate on their work. When children grow out of Bwafwano School (which is just a primary school) we fund them at local state schools. We are now supporting 638 children in nearby government schools.
One of Bwafwano's mottoes is 'Vision, System, Data' and its impressive financial and administrative procedures form a strong foundation for our partnership.
The Overseas Aid Committee of the Isle of Man Government (www.gov.im) has provided a grant of £10,000 towards the cost of the Bwafwano Community School programme in 2007-08. This support is invaluable in ensuring that the school continues to run at full capacity, providing quality free education to 650 children that have been orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS in the Chipataarea of Lusaka, Zambia.
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