Our Programs
Transforming lives and empowering communities through comprehensive programs in nutrition, health, education, gender equality, youth empowerment, support for widows, pastoral care, safe motherhood, and community development.
Orphans & Vulnerable Children
Fortified Porridge Feeding Program
Early Childhood Education
Child-Headed Homes
As a means to enhance nutrition, we operate community feeding centers led by dedicated local leaders and volunteers. In 15 communities, children receive nourishing Likuni Phala five days a week through our early childhood development program. This initiative, supported by 65 trained community volunteers and caregivers, has fed up to 13,000 children, though funding shortages have reduced this number. During the critical hunger gap from November to March, children are provided with an additional meal. We also extend our care to 14 child-headed households, comprising 51 children in total, ensuring they have access to food and education, protecting them from a life of crime or becoming victims of gender-based violence.
Home Based Care
HIV Support Groups
Home-Based Care for Critical Patients
Patient Transport Assistance
Community Pharmacies
We provide vital health services in rural and peri-urban communities, supporting families and caregivers of individuals with chronic diseases like TB, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. Through our dedicated efforts, we offer medication support, community pharmacies, transport vouchers for accessing ARVs, emergency food packs for critically ill patients, mosquito nets, blankets, and pastoral counseling. Our 170 trained community volunteers reach out to 3,845 patients, encouraging those who recover to join local HIV/AIDS support groups that meet weekly. Additionally, we provide prescription medication from Canadian charities to local clinics, benefiting over 45,000 patients.
Pastoral
Community Evangelism
Bible Distribution
Grace Community Bible Training Centre
Marriage Seminars
We are founded on biblical roots, and thus we incorporate pastoral teaching in all our programs. Our Ministry’s mandate is to reach individuals on a holistic level, paying specific attention to their spiritual wellbeing. The Pastoral department ensures that pastors step out of the four walls of the church to effect real change in their communities. Pastors support Home Based Care by bringing the Word of God to the sick, teaching the children in the feeding program, providing mentorship in family values and ethics in the Youth program, and serving as counselors in the Gender-Based Violence program, ensuring the message of intolerance towards violence is preached in churches. Most pastors do not own a Bible, making Bible distribution a crucial component for ensuring transformation in village communities. We also provide biblical foundation training, a two-year program, to community pastors and church leaders who would otherwise never be able to attend quality, accessible biblical teachings (Grace Community Bible Training Centre).
Youth
Youth Conferences
Skills Training
Girl Empowerment Programs
Community Evangelism
YAFORCE (Youth Alliance for Change) was birthed out of an understanding that if lasting change is to take place, the main target of capacity building and community transformation must be the youth. Unemployment, early marriage, and high rates of school dropout plague youth in villages. We provide spiritual and vocational training to over 900 youth trainers in 18 communities. The youth are encouraged to be self-reliant through attending training in tailoring, building, carpentry, and agri-business for capacity building. The youth encompass more than 50% of the volunteer workforce in the ministry and community leadership, serving in critical roles that ensure the success of all programs. One vital component of the youth’s impact is community health evangelism, ensuring that Jesus is preached to every person but also targeting developmental areas such as malaria prevention, clean water, and good sanitation.
Safe Motherhood
Fortified Porridge Feeding Program
Pregnancy, Birthing, & Breastfeeding Education
Skills Training
We, supported by government Health Surveillance Assistants and community leaders, work with lactating and pregnant women in 16 communities to ensure healthy pregnancies and safe deliveries. This is achieved through growth monitoring, nutrition training and food demonstrations, access to fortified porridge (which greatly reduces malnourished births), and encouraging VCT testing for all pregnant mothers and their spouses, as well as exclusive breastfeeding. We also advocate for a husband’s full involvement in the pregnancy process and the raising of children. Women are taught skills in sewing, crocheting, knitting, and small agri-business to encourage self-reliance and financial independence.
Widows & Women
Maize Distribution
Fortified Porridge Feeding Program
Community Banking Groups
Skills Training
The main goal of this program is two-fold: to ensure widows know their value and that they are loved by God, and to help them help themselves. The Grey Matters program unites nearly 4,000 widows and elderly in the community by having them come together weekly for spiritual and social support. It also helps the widows become self-sufficient by providing them with different materials and small care packs of basic household needs. One of our initiatives is “Gogo loans” (granny loans) where younger women access loans without interest but instead adopt an elderly man or woman and help support them monetarily or in kind. This has ensured the community looks after its elders and has reduced the dependency of widows on programs.
Gender-Based Violence
GBV Counselling
House of Mercy (HOMe)
Dinah’s Legacy for young survivors
Chief-to-Chief Training
We have developed a program designed to speak out (“Silent No More”) against gender-based violence, especially towards women and children. This is achieved by building the capacity of 526 counselors in 18 communities who act as ambassadors of change in their villages, providing support to survivors of violence. This operates through the establishment of a network between communities and available victim support police units, hospitals, and traditional courts. The program also seeks to empower women on their rights and those of their children, and how they can enforce these rights. “Silent No More” calls all churches and traditional leadership to take action, highlighting the way churches have perpetuated a culture of silence around sexual violence and how they have largely failed to respond to the crisis. This silence may even worsen the impact by reinforcing the stigma and discrimination experienced by survivors. Through community awareness campaigns, we educate chiefs, churches, and community leaders to take a stand against violence towards women and children. A House of Mercy (HOME) in Mtsiliza provides a place of refuge for survivors to find temporary safety and a means of developing skills.
Community Development
Boreholes
Leadership Capacity Building
Sanitation | Road Repairs
Community Centres
This is a structured intervention that gives communities greater control over the conditions that affect their lives. We conduct capacity-building meetings with community leaders, chiefs, and traditional authorities, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage and participate in their community development. With support from individual partners, we have drilled and repaired over 50 boreholes in areas where clean drinking water was not available, recognizing that access to clean water is a basic right. Our ministry has improved community landscapes by constructing safe and secure feeding centers for all community activities. We have also built pit latrines to promote good hygiene and encouraged the maintenance of roads to improve access to markets and goods. Additionally, community development ensures villages participate in reforestation by planting trees.
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