At the end of 2005 BHW received an emergency call from one of our partners, Andy Patching from Isubilo in Zambia. He knew a person in Solwezi, Zambia who was caring for 60 orphans and vulnerable children. Joseph Kampelembi and his wife had been sending them to school but could not afford it for 2006. We therefore gave them the funds to get them going and asked them to make an application for the following year.

Samfya Bible School is a key provider of training in the Luapula Province of Zambia. Every year they train about 30 people who become pastors, evangelists, church planters and change agents in their communities. They produce high quality graduates, many of whom are making a huge impact on their communities.

Samfya Bible School has been preparing Christian leaders since 1940 and is a key provider of training in the Luapula Province of Zambia. However recently a need has been identifed for a ministry to youth. The extension program aims to teach church leaders about youth programs and how to handle youth, but they had no ministry actually reaching young people.

Over the lake from Samfya, in the Northern Province of Zambia, lies a little village almost totally dependent on fishing. "It is a poor village, as poor as I have ever seen in Africa." says the BHW Africa Director. The seven churches in the village have got together and identified 230 orphans and vulnerable children who need assistance, especially with schooling.

In 2010 Roy and Sarah Nyirenda were challenged by the number of deaf children in the community where they live who were being dumped by their parents. They decided to adopt some of these children as their own, as they had nowhere else to go.

Rosemary Daka and her late husband Lonard have been church planting in this area of Zambia for about 35 years. As they developed churches they were swamped by the needs of the vulnerable children and their guardians. They started 'Chifundo' to care for the children, to resource and encourage the guardians, to get the children into school and assist the community.

Kamatipa, a small rural village of several hundred located in the Copperbelt of Zambia, is home to many orphaned children who are in desperate need of food, clothing, bedding and assistance with school fees. Kamatipa is on the outskirts of Chingola and is in a very remote area. Many children are unwell due to lack of food.

Rebecca Kaumba is s retired lady who lives in Chivuma. In the church she used to attend in Chingola, Lulamba CMML, she has a number of friends. One of them, Elizabeth Palata, mentioned to Rebecca that there were a lot of vulnerable children in her neighbourhood and she encouraged her to get them together and try to help them. She did and found there were more than 20 children. Bright Hope World now assists these children to go to school.

OM Zambia is a missions training centre that is equipping potential missionaries and the churches that send them. It is particularly aimed at mobilising the African church for the task of missions. It is based at a strategic location and produces good quality graduates.

Disabled people are often an unreached people group because they are usually thrown out of home due to the belief that they are cursed and will bring a curse to families. Normally the father will leave the family and the mother is left to look after these children but they have no ability to look after them well in terms of finance or skills so often children are just left alone.

On the border of Zambia and the DRC, near the city of Ndola, lives a solo mother who has been trained in orphan care and how to set up care programmes. Doris initially identified 36 vulnerable orphaned children who live in this border area and who went to her church.

The team at GLO Bible College realised there was a need to re-evaluate the way they relate to the local church and their vision is to "Equip the church for the future".

The rural areas around Chipata are very poor and have increasing issues each year as the climate seems to be getting drier and drier. The HIV/AIDS pandemic there has also created a number of orphaned children in the area.

Living in a low cost housing area of urban Africa is not a pleasant thing. When your suburb has many hotels and beer halls it places you in the midst of poverty and everything associated with that. That is where Titus Mambwe and some of his friends live and they have decided to do something about it.

KERO farms has been set up to support the orphans in Beracah Orphan Care and to provide employment for people in the local area. The local chief has granted Bright Hope 300 hectares in three locations.

KERO farm has been set up to provide employment for people and support the orphans in Beracah Orphans. This year requires the purchase of some equipment to change this from being a small scale peasant farm into a commercial operation: an ox cart, a solar irrigation pump, barbed wire, 7 animals and 1,000 banana plants. The plan is that by 2010 the place will be self sustaining.

In recent years, Chaba has struggled with the impacts of overfishing and is finding it harder to make a living from this traditional trade. As a whole the community is finding that they must become more reliant on agriculture production and diversification as a means of providing food and income for their families. The goal here is to increase the standard of living in Chaba by investing in local agriculture infrastructure.

For a number of years BHW has been supporting a partnership in Chisasa, ZAM15. This involves the support of vulnerable children and getting them into school. The leadership also want to develop self sustaining programmes to start generating their own funds and have a number of plans to do that.

Personal support of Leonard & Rosemary Daka working with orphans in Chipata, Zambia. They are key leaders and oversee 50 orphans in their own village, another 45 in other villages and the development of a Community School.

Oliver Mulenga and a few of his close friends became concerned at the number of children that were living on the streets of Kalulushi, a town in the Copperbelt of Zambia, so he took action.

About 65 kilometres into the bush from Kalulushi is the town of Katembula. It is the main town in a growing area and there are many very poor people. There is little infrastructure in the community. A number of children are being helped into school, and the children are visited to ensure they are doing well. Our partner is also training key community members in Foundations for Farming, so that they can start to train and disciple the community.

Jeremiah and Faides are the key people on the ground in Kamatipa. They tend their own farm, lead the small church of about 100 people, and care for the orphans. Jeremiah is originally from Angola and from time to time goes back there to help his people and teach in the churches.

Dick Mumba, his wife Anita and their family run a Christian school for 23 street kids in a house in Chipata, Zambia. The programme includes feeding the children and giving them spiritual guidance.

Sometimes you meet people who make an immediate impression on you. Dick and Anita are like that. They have five children of their own but have a real love, care and concern for the many vulnerable children in Zambia and have spent many years in ministry with children.

Once trained, OM graduates are sent to various parts of Africa with the aim of reaching the unreached using holistic ministries.OM encourages their graduates to be self-sustaining in their ministry by providing one-off financial support to enable them to establish income generating activities in an effort to meet their own financial needs.

Charles Chibale Chola lives in the remote rural village of Kaishe where they formed an association to care for the vulnerable children in their community. There are six churches in six small villages covering about 5 kms of the road. They originally discovered 193 orphans and registered them into the organisation.

Charles is the key person in this partnership at Kaishe. He has an ideal little farm plot to look after himself. He also travels extensively to preach the gospel, frequently into the DRC which is a few kilometres from this village. We have been providing a small level of support to supplement his income.

There are few opportunities for school leavers in the Kaishe area. Bright Hope World has worked with the community of Kaishe to establish a Skills Training Centre.

Maplehurst Farm has been purchased in Zambia for the purpose of generating funds in Africa. The idea is to use the funds to support existing projects. It will also become a base from which to operate in Zambia and to train local people. Maplehurst Farm is a serious attempt to address the issues that face southern Africa in an appropriate way; in a way that creates a number of side benefits.

Along with providing a place for training, especially training in sustainable farming methods, the Maplehurst Centre also generates income for BHW Zambia partnerships by renting various accommodation buildings at the Centre.

There are many children in Kabwe whose guardians and parents are so poor that it is impossible to send the children to school. The children are keen to learn but have little or no opportunity to excel. Opportunity has come up for BHW to become involved in assisting more than 120 children in Kabwe to go to school.

Currently the majority of Bright Hope World partnerships in Zambia are predominantly focused on getting HIV/AIDS orphans into school by supplying school fees, stationary and uniforms. The orphans are still looked after in the community by relatives or neighbors. However hunger is a huge issue and is potentially going to get worse. Bright Hope World has been challenged by this need and is now seeking to run kitchen garden training programmes and micro-enterprise loans in an attempt to improve household nutrition and food security as well as to kindle a spirit of self-reliance.