Local Partner: Kabwata Transit Centre

Local Partner Director: Angela Miyanda

Area Served: Lusaka and Kaweza District, Zambia

Program Goal: To provide for the care and education of over 400 AIDS orphans and to provide service outreach to people of the Kaweza District.

Program Services Provided: Orphan care, healthcare, clean water, school construction and HIV/AIDS education and outreach.

Number of Program Beneficiaries: Over 478 orphans, over 3,000 individuals served in the Kaweza District.

Current Needs: Funding for orphan care, anti-viral medications, salaries for two teachers to come and teach at the local primary school.

Program Summary:
The Kabwata Transit Centre was created by Mrs. Angela Miyanda to provide shelter and care for AIDS orphans in Lusaka, Zambia. In addition to their orphanage, the program has expanded to include a school, a mobile clinic, a small farm, and support services for widows and the elderly. Currently, Kabwata Transit Centre serves 478 children, over 3,000 local residents, and has 16 members on its staff. These 16 staff members, still under the supervision of founder - Mrs. Angela Miyande, run a well-organized orphanage and a successful foster care program that integrates the surrounding communities into the nurturing and care of these vulnerable and needy children. The program has truly become a model for children's programs in the area. In fact, the Kabwata Centre has recently completed the construction of a new school for 400 children and has set up an early childhood learning support scheme to help children with homework and to address learning difficulties.

In healthcare, the Kabwata mobile clinic, which was founded in 2000, treats an average of 200 people per week in the Kaweza District.  In addition to providing basic healthcare and providing access to anti-retroviral drugs, the clinic also conducts community educational sessions that emphasize the need for change in the attitudes and behaviors contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS.  Their forward-thinking efforts have made small but strong strides toward a truer understanding of the disease and the need for birth control, condoms, and honest communication in relationships. The clinic has changed the lives of countless local community members for whom the nearest government clinic is simply too far to access on foot.  Recently they have been working to establish a permanent clinic building, to complement their current mobile clinic, and completed the construction of accommodations for their doctors in May of 2011.  With a permanent residence for the clinic's doctors, the doctors don't have to take time traveling the rough roads and instead can offer round-the-clock care to local patients.  A true boon for the Kaweza district and its residents!

School fees, medical care costs and other operational fees are supported in part by Bread and Water for Africa^®.