We are a residential home for boys and an emergency placement facility
​for neglected, traumatized , and abused children
who require care, protection, and therapeutic intervention and development.

 ​A rehabilitation center where we offer
a new home and a new start ​for the children.

​​It is a “half-way home” where we restore lost childhood, re-integrate the children back in their families, back to their homes and society.​

Over the past 27 years we have helped hundreds of children to escape
the trap of severe neglect, homelessness, physical and sexual abuse and drug addiction.
We have helped them to regain their childhood,
their confidence,
their dreams
​and their hope in the future.

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Our approach

Life on the street

OUTREACH

We continue to be faithful to our original mission of service to the children living on the streets.
Regularly visiting Lusaka's streets, we are searching for new aspirants to homeless life and do our best to remove those who do not enjoy that lifestyle.
​​ We avoid any actions, which could contribute to children extending their stay on the street, or attract others to street life.

Visiting families

FAMILY TRACING

As long as a child remains an anonymous person the possibilities to assist him with meaningful and lasting help are severely limited.
We do our best to make contact and initiate relationship with the family of every child in our care.
​We engage with the family in the process of rehabilitation, which leads to their reconciliation and reunification.

Group meeting

RESTORATION

We aim to secure children's safety, correct their perception of the world, self-perception, impulse control, self-regulation, social competence.​ We help the children to develop  their emotional literacy, and strive to build up their coping skills, strengthen resilience; getting children ready to face the inevitable challenges of everyday life within their communities.​

Did I learn to cry when I see a child who is hungry,
a child using drugs in the street, a child without a home,
a child abandoned, a child abused,
a child used by a society as a slave.

Pope Francis, 2015

Healing

Childhood trauma can be a result of catastrophic events (like car accident, earthquake), but more commonly is a result of disrupted attachment, abandonment, neglect, abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones. 
It is imperative for parents and caregivers to understand how trauma affects the body, brain, and spirit, becoming the cause of anxiety, hyperactivity, impaired empathy, distorted perception, cognitive impairments, aggression, depression and other physical illnesses.

Education

There is a lot of in-house training and learning every day, apart from cleaning, washing, and cooking. We have literacy classes, puzzle-solving, mathematics, drawing and painting, play, storytelling, and yoga classes.

​Children who cannot return to their families within foreseeable future, are enrolled to different government schools, where they continue their education.

Reintegration

The best place for any child to grow and develop is a family.

Recognizing, that some families need help in providing for their children, some need learning and guidance, we strongly believe that our mission is to "help out the family" and not to "take over" from them.

After reintegration with the family, if needed, we continue educational support of the child.

Healing brings joy

"Helping a child to bond and attach to others,
despite the vulnerability this entails,
may be the single most important step
any parent or professional can take
​to improve the life of a child."

D. Ziegler Ph.D.
Mental Health Therapy for Children, 2018

TESTIMONY

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What do the children say about us?
​Are we helping?
​Do we need you?

Listen to the testimony of Simon and Terry, ​two of our beneficiaries.

When you meet a child on the street.

Are you sad?

Are you feeling bad?

Don't know what to do?

Confused?

After more than two decades of direct work and dialog ​with children and young people living on the streets, we can say:

Any money, food, clothes, or work you give to a child living on the street

Makes you feel better, but keeps this child longer on the street.

Watch our info-toons explaining "dos" and "don'ts".

The more you give,
​the more children come to the streets.
Invited by your gift.
You come and you leave.
They remain!

​There are institutions,
Social Welfare, Victim Support Unit,
Child Protection Unit
and many NGOs.
They can provide informed help!

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Less income off the street,
​less children on the street!

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Do not entertain children on the street!
Help us to help them in
an ​informed and lasting manner!

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