Zambia
The beauty of Zambia, with its numerous national parks and countless waterfalls, of which the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi are the most famous, is offset by mountains of problems. An ailing education system, malnutrition, lack of access to running water are just a few. The latter, although the country actually has considerable water resources. HIV contributes to the general misery.
To help those affected, we support three inpatient clinics that care for a total of 50,000 patients, as well as four mobile outreach teams that regularly visit 50 wards. The latter provide more than 1,000 patients with life-sustaining drugs every day. We also operate community health posts. Villagers come there to have their blood drawn and receive medicines. All medicines are dispensed free of charge, as most of them lack the finances for this.
The treatment prolongs the life of our patients. But only God can give eternal life. That is why we spread the Good News, among other things by printing and distributing Bibles. These are scarce in Zambia and very expensive.
Pastors are trained in the Bible school that is part of our university. So far, we have planted churches in seven of Zambia's ten provinces.
But we also take responsibility for AIDS orphans and children from difficult backgrounds. In our children's village in the Chongwe district, 20 kilometers from Lusaka, we give them a loving home and accompany them until they can stand on their own two feet - just like in a real family.
While the average life expectancy in Zambia was only 43 years in 1998, it has now risen to almost 66 years. This is a positive development, to which our work also contributes. Nevertheless, Zambia is only 196*th in the world. The main cause of this is still AIDS.
Both the comprehensive school attached to the children's village, the Fountain Gate Christian Academy, and the Chreso University, which opened in 2010 and which we also support, offer schooling and education far beyond the country's standards. Both institutions are training the country's skilled personnel of tomorrow. More than 90 percent of graduates have jobs. In 2002, Mubuyu College in the Siavonga region was added as a further educational institution with an affiliated boarding school for girls.
* CIA World Factbook, retrieved 8.11.2021
