Our Mission
Welcome to the Zambian Children’s Fund’s website.
Founded in 1999, the Zambian Children’s Fund (ZCF) in the United States and the Chishawasha Children’s Home of Zambia (CCHZ) are sister non-profit organizations dedicated to helping orphaned Zambian children through creation of a sustainable, loving community. We provide care, shelter, food, medical attention and education to enable each child to grow up to be a healthy, productive member of Zambian society.
Our goals are to:
- Provide each child with three nutritious meals each day.
- Provide a clean, safe environment for the children
- Attend to each child’s physical and emotional needs
- Provide quality education (K-12) and trade skills to all and to help those who can attain a higher education
- Keep families intact so that children can grow up with their own siblings
- Teach AIDS and health awareness
- Support grandparents raising orphaned children.
Our website offers an overview of who we are, where we have been, where we are headed, our successes, our programs and goals. Most importantly, it also offers you the opportunity to get involved as well and to learn more about the plight of orphaned children in Zambia.
Printable Mission Statement
Photos taken by twelve Chishawasha students from an intensive photography workshop co-sponsored by Kids with Cameras is featured in the November issue of Smithsonian Magazine and on-line at their website:
www.Smithsonianmagazine.com. The student photos will also be posted on the their website
www.kids-with-cameras.org.
The workshop was the inspiration of NYC-based photographer Klaus Schoenwiese who not only conceived of the project, but raised the necessary funding and donated his own services to make it happen. In May 2007, Klaus traveled to Chishawasha laden with cameras and film for each of the twelve workshop participants. During the next three weeks, he mentored the students as they photographed their lives at Chishawasha, their extended families and home villages, where possible. They also took photography field trips to a market, a game reserve and a fishery. The students then taught their new-found skills to other eager children at Chishawasha. The workshop culminated in a beautiful final photo exhibit in an empty classroom illuminated by natural light, and Klaus returned home to New York with 150 rolls of student workshop film to develop, submit to the Smithsonian, and exhibit.
Klaus’s workshop goals were: “Aside from having fun, to discover photography as a tool of self-expression and visual transformation and to use photography as a medium to connect one’s life experience to the outside world.”
Workshop photos and profiles of the students are posted on the
project website (www.tribeofman.com/zambia) where Klaus has also added a slide show of his own poignant photographs taken at Chishawasha which is guaranteed to take you there.
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| Chishawasha Photography Workshop Students: NYC-based photographer Klaus Schoenwiese visited Chishawasha for three weeks in May to facilitate a “Kids with Cameras Photography Workshop” for these 12 Chishawasha youth. Copyright ©2007 Klaus Schoenwiese, www.tribeofman.com | Photos were taken during a memorable three-week “Kids- with-Cameras Photography Workshop” at Chishawasha in May facilitated by photographer Klaus Schoenwiese. Photos Copyright ©2007 Klaus Schoenwiese, www.tribeofman.com |
Next, A Traveling Chishawasha Photo Exhibit with Your Help
To further illuminate the photography by the Chishawasha students and Klaus, and to continue to raise awareness and support for ZCF and the Chishawasha Children’s Home, a traveling photo exhibition, in conjunction with the production of quality prints, cards, and calendars, is being planned. Klaus invites donations and information about quality exhibition venues, publicists, press inquiries and sponsors. “We warmly welcome help from wherever you may be hailing us.” Please contact him at klaus@tribeofman.com if you have helpful information.
We also invite you to visit klaus@tribeofman.com/zambia to buy gallery quality prints of the children’s photos. Kids with Cameras is also accepting on-line donations toward the project. The money raised from print sales and donations will go toward planned exhibitions and related project expenses. Any money not used to raise the public profile of ZCF will be donated to benefit Chishawasha’s educational programming and possibly to bring a digital workshop to the future skills center.
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