Community Relations - Zambia
The following organisations are supported by British Airways and receive complimentary tickets, cargo and excess baggage.
Action for Street Children
British Airways Action for Street Children is a volunteer programme for British Airways staff. The programme works with three UK based charities; Hope for Children, Task Brasil and The Railway Children.
Teams of British Airways staff volunteers use their annual leave time to visit these projects in Sofia, Lusaka and Rio de Janeiro. As well as spending time with the children and encouraging the careers, the team brings educational and sports equipment with them. Several tons of donated goods are also sent free of charge to the projects through the generosity of British Airways World Cargo.
Find out more about Action for Street ChildrenAfrican Revival
African Revival runs education and livelihood projects in rural communities in Zambia. There are a number of different projects which include drilling boreholes in schools so that children have access to clean fresh water, building classrooms, and providing school resources and teaching equipment. African Revival has a schools linking programme which links schools in the UK with schools in Zambia, this is very successful in raising awareness in UK schools and allowing children from both countries to learn about each others’ cultures.
African Revival also runs a farm and trains people to use effective and sustainable farming methods so that they can sell produce and supplement their own and their family’s diets with the nutrients they need to stay healthy.
Visit www.africanrevival.orgBethany Children’s Trust
The Bethany Children's Trust (BCT) acts and speaks with and on behalf of children at risk, and encourages others to do so.
BCT partners with projects working with orphans, street children and children affected by disease, war, disability, poverty and abuse. BCT’s current project partners are in Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Togo and Zambia.
It supports these projects with consultancy in project development, finance and information resources. BCT also trains overseas churches in HIV/AIDS awareness, care, prevention and orphan care.
Visit www.bethanychildrenstrust.org.ukBuild IT International
Build IT International works with local people, local builders and communities to deliver essential, low-cost buildings, training people in sustainable, environmentally friendly building skills.
Build IT International provides a practical and sustainable response to poverty where there is a need for essential buildings such as schools, clinics and low-cost houses in areas where there is a lack of jobs and where there is potential to promote sustainable building technologies that minimise damage to the environment.
Four projects have been completed; seven classrooms and teachers houses built which has benefited over 1700 children. More than 50 local labourers and builders have been trained.
Visit www.builditinternational.orgThe Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED)
Camfed is dedicated to fighting poverty and HIV/AIDS in rural Africa by educating girls and investing in their economic independence and leadership once they complete school.
Camfed began in 1993 by supporting 32 girls in rural Zimbabwe. Last year, 645,400 children in some of the poorest regions of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania benefitted from Camfed’s education programme. In 2009, a programme was also launched in Malawi.
By supporting girls to go to school, Camfed unlocks the potential of some of the poorest and most marginalised young women in Africa, helping them to become financially independent. Through their own community initiatives, these young women have helped to support 71,838 children to go to school over the past ten years – making a lasting impact for generations to come.
Visit www.camfed.orgCecily’s Fund
Cecily's Fund makes it possible for Zambian orphans and other impoverished children, like Katy, to go to school. Like many thousands of other Zambian children, Katy (pictured here with the nephew she helps look after) lost her parents at a young age and is looked after by her elderly grandmother. They struggle to make a living selling bags of charcoal. Cecily's Fund provides Katy and her sister with shoes, uniforms, books, pens and help with fees, without which they simply could not go to school.
Without school they would risk getting trapped in a vicious circle of poverty and sickness, at school they get emotional support from teachers and friends, become more confident, learn about HIV prevention and learn skills so they can go to college and earn a living.
Visit www.cecilysfund.orgDavid Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) works throughout Africa and Asia to save critically endangered mammals in the wild and benefit the local people who share their environment.
In Africa, DSWF supports projects in Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Zambia. Since 1991, DSWF has funded anti-poaching and intelligence operations in Zambia and, more recently, helped establish a rescue and release programme for orphaned elephants – the innocent victims of illegal poaching.
DSWF is currently working to develop a mobile rescue team and to set up a park protection and training programme for the long-term protection of Zambia’s wildlife.
Visit www.davidshepherd.orgSave the Rhino International
Save the Rhino International (SRI) works to conserve viable populations of critically endangered rhinos in Africa and Asia. SRI funds field projects and education to deliver long-lasting and widespread benefits to rhinos and other endangered species, to ecosystems and to the people living in these same areas.
Save the Rhino International connects conservation and communities by working in partnership with 14 local NGOs in Africa and Asia.
Visit www.savetherhino.orgSelf Help Africa
Self Help Africa works at grassroots level tackling poverty and improving lives in rural Africa.
With projects in nine countries, Self Help Africa's primary focus is assisting families and communities to grow enough food to feed themselves and to earn a sustainable living.
The organisation’s all-African staff and local partners help hundreds of thousands of people each year work their way out of poverty. It does this by bringing simple and effective innovations to farming and natural resource management and by helping people access basic services like clean water, healthcare and education.
Self Help Africa operates in Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.
Visit www.selfhelpafrica.netSOS Children
SOS Children has been providing a family for life for children who have lost their parents through conflict, famine, disease and poverty, since 1949. Over 78,000 orphaned or abandoned children are cared for by SOS mothers in clusters of family homes in more than 490 unique children's villages, in 124 countries around the world.
A further million benefit from SOS Children's outreach support which includes education, vocational training, medical care and community development programmes. SOS Children is currently constructing a new Children's Village in Chipata, Zambia.
Visit www.soschildren.orgNHS Lothian - Zambia HIV - AIDS partnership
The Lothian-Zambia HIV - AIDS partnership seeks to link key health workers in Edinburgh with counterparts in two underdeveloped areas of Zambia which are ravaged by HIV/AIDS. This programme has been running for over two years.
A key part of the work in Zambia is supporting the WHO emergency roll out of antiretroviral treatment. Only a tiny proportion of the 28 million people living with HIV in sub-saharan Africa currently get treatment. The work of the Lothian - Zambia HIV - AIDS partnership is successful and making a small but significant difference, with the support offered by the NHS in Scotland, considered vital by colleagues in Zambia.
Tag Rugby Development Trust
The Tag Rugby Development Trust is a rugby-based charity that was formed in 2002. It exists to help improve the lives of children in some of the poorest regions of the world. It currently works with orphanages and government schools in India, Zambia, Uganda and Kenya using the game of Tag Rugby as its vehicle.
Tag Rugby Development Trust’s values revolve around respect, teamwork, creating friendships, breaking down social and geographical barriers, tolerance and co-operation between different communities.
Visit www.trdt.co.ukTools with a Mission
Tools with a Mission provides tools to people in poorer areas of the world which allow them to work and generate income to support themselves and their families.
TWAM works with local vocational training centres that offer life-skills, education and instruction in various trades. At the completion of training each student is given a tradesman’s tool kit. The ability to become self-sufficient increases the feeling of self-worth and creates confidence for a better future.
Visit www.twam.co.uk