Zambia

World Renew has been working in Zambia since 1990, coming alongside some of the country’s most vulnerable communities, supporting them with local initiatives in community health, agriculture, livelihoods training, and drought response.

Zambia

World Renew has been working in Zambia since 1990, coming alongside some of the country’s most vulnerable communities, supporting them with local initiatives in community health, agriculture, livelihoods training, and drought response.

                      WHAT WE DO

While Zambia is a beautiful country—home to the largest waterfall in the world, beautiful lakes, and amazing wildlife—it is also struggling under the burden of poverty. More than 61% percent of Zambians live below the poverty line, and three-quarters of the country’s poor live in rural areas. High unemployment, frequent drought, and the epidemic of HIV and AIDS are significant barriers to prosperity. World Renew programs support the long-term development of the most impoverished communities. A large focus of our work is improving the agricultural skills and health outcomes of families struggling to grow enough food and to find basic access to health care.

Food Security

Community Health

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                      RENEWING HOPE: CHANGING STORIES OF POVERTY

“Our lives are very different; we no longer have to stress [to pay] for school fees or even to sell animals. Our fields are more productive, and we all go to sleep every night with food in our stomachs. We are richly blessed.”

– Sandress Nyirenda, farmer and father

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                     PARTNERS IN ZAMBIA

World Renew has worked closely with the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) since 1994. Together, CCAP and World Renew have implemented strong grassroots community development initiatives in education, food security and nutrition, and livelihoods.

The Reformed Church of Zambia (RCZ) and World Renew have been in partnership since 1991. Our current programming with RCZ supports the implementation of the Church in Community program, with additional projects in food security and climate-adaptive farming, livelihoods training, and preventative health care with a focus on child nutrition.

The United Church of Zambia (UCZ) is World Renew’s largest partner in Zambia with over 1 million church members, providing opportunities to increase the scale and impact of our programming. Together, UCZ and World Renew implemented several large disaster response programs in the western part of the country where severe drought affected the region, with funding from UK Aid and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

                      STORIES AND NEWS FROM ZAMBIA