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	Welcome to Development Aid from People to People in Zambia Development Aid from People to People has for the past 20 years been actively involved in long-term development projects in Zambia in areas including Education, Community Development, Agriculture and Rural Development, Health including the fight against HIV/AIDS, Economic Development and Environmental Conservation. The organisation strives, through the implementation of its projects, to work with the needy by providing knowledge, skills and tools that empower them and their families to face and overcome the challenges of everyday life, and thereby improving their livelihoods. As Development Aid from People to People in Zambia, we have over the years adopted as a slogan “Fighting with the poor” and we want to see people themselves become the driving force in development with structures, methods and experiences gained in any community sustained and/or replicated to other areas even after DAPP projects come to an end. Currently, Development Aid from People to People in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Zambia and other local and international partners in development is implementing 23 projects reaching approximately 1 million Zambians. DAPP is affiliated to the Humana People to People. (March 2011)

Welcome to Development Aid from People to People in Zambia

Development Aid from People to People has for the past 20 years been actively involved in long-term development projects in Zambia in areas including Education, Community Development, Agriculture and Rural Development, Health including the fight against HIV/AIDS, Economic Development and Environmental Conservation.

The organisation strives, through the implementation of its projects, to work with the needy by providing knowledge, skills and tools that empower them and their families to face and overcome the challenges of everyday life, and thereby improving their livelihoods.

As Development Aid from People to People in Zambia, we have over the years adopted as a slogan “Fighting with the poor” and we want to see people themselves become the driving force in development with structures, methods and experiences gained in any community sustained and/or replicated to other areas even after DAPP projects come to an end.

Currently, Development Aid from People to People in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Zambia and other local and international partners in development is implementing 23 projects reaching approximately 1 million Zambians.

DAPP is affiliated to the Humana People to People. (March 2011)

News Today	DAPP programme lines at a glance

	DAPP donates on Family Day On May 15, DAPP joined the world in commemorating the International Day of the Family. The theme for this year’s Day of the Family was “Ensuring Work-Family Balance.” DAPP, through the Ministry of Community Development Mother and Child Health, donated hampers of secondhand clothes valued at K20 million to over 440 families in 8 districts including Lusaka, Kabwe, Ndola, Mpika, Mkushi, Kasama, Serenje and Chibombo.	Child Aid: Integrated Community Development programmes implemented in 24 districts with emphasis on activities that improve the living conditions for children and entire families. HOPE Programmes: Contribute towards the fight against HIV/AIDS and support people infected and affected by the virus in 9 districts across Zambia. Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE): A systematic door-to-door HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme providing HIV/AIDS information as well as counselling, testing and care to all individuals in two districts in the Southern Province. Children’s Town: Provides a home, a school and a future for former street children.The programme also runs a community school for orphans and vulnerable children from pre-school to grade nine. Farmers' Club: This programme is in 6 districts and its main objective is to improve food security and income among small-scale farmers through the promotion of gardening, livestock production and irrigation systems using rope pumps, treadle pumps as well as small motorised engines. Clothes and Shoes Fundraising Business : This project sells second hand clothes and shoes and raises funds for other development projects. DAPP Mkushi Teacher Training College: The first DAPP Teacher Training College to be opened in Mkushi District in the first quarter of 2012. The College will be training teachers for rural primary schools where demand for teachers is high. The 2-year certificate training course the college will be offering focuses on providing the student teachers with an all-round education and giving them a good foundation for providing child-centred quality education as well as providing their pupils with life skills and making the schools centres for development in the rural communities.
The donations to the families in need indicate the great importance which DAPP attaches to families and the commitment we have in improving the lives of the people. DAPP works with 100,000 families in 28 social projects implemented across Zambia. DAPP together with the Ministry of Community Development and other stakeholders organized commemoration activities in Kasama, Ndola and Lusaka. This Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/237 of 1993.

School WASH Project extended The School WASH and Quality Education Project implemented by DAPP in the Northern Province has been extended by 18 months. This follows the successful implementation of the project from 11 March 2009 to 10 March 2012. Over 320,000 pupils in 800 schools in all the 12 districts of the province were provided with water and sanitation facilities as well as sanitation and hygiene education. The Project was implemented with funding and technical assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The extended project will provide water and sanitation facilities to addition 150 schools in the province. The budget for the extension is US$1,999,490 and will be funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by DAPP in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Local Government and Housing.

DAPP donates on Family Day

On May 15, DAPP joined the world in commemorating the International Day of the Family. The theme for this year’s Day of the Family was “Ensuring Work-Family Balance.”

DAPP, through the Ministry of Community Development Mother and Child Health, donated hampers of secondhand clothes valued at K20 million to over 440 families in 8 districts including Lusaka, Kabwe, Ndola, Mpika, Mkushi, Kasama, Serenje and Chibombo.

Child Aid: Integrated Community Development programmes implemented in 24 districts with emphasis on activities that improve the living conditions for children and entire families.

HOPE Programmes: Contribute towards the fight against HIV/AIDS and support people infected and affected by the virus in 9 districts across Zambia.

Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE): A systematic door-to-door HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme providing HIV/AIDS information as well as counselling, testing and care to all individuals in two districts in the Southern Province.

Children’s Town: Provides a home, a school and a future for former street children.The programme also runs a community school for orphans and vulnerable children from pre-school to grade nine.

Farmers' Club: This programme is in 6 districts and its main objective is to improve food security and income among small-scale farmers through the promotion of gardening, livestock production and irrigation systems using rope pumps, treadle pumps as well as small motorised engines.

Clothes and Shoes Fundraising Business : This project sells second hand clothes and shoes and raises funds for other development projects.

DAPP Mkushi Teacher Training College: The first DAPP Teacher Training College to be opened in Mkushi District in the first quarter of 2012. The College will be training teachers for rural primary schools where demand for teachers is high. The 2-year certificate training course the college will be offering focuses on providing the student teachers with an all-round education and giving them a good foundation for providing child-centred quality education as well as providing their pupils with life skills and making the schools centres for development in the rural communities.

The donations to the families in need indicate the great importance which DAPP attaches to families and the commitment we have in improving the lives of the people.

DAPP works with 100,000 families in 28 social projects implemented across Zambia.

DAPP together with the Ministry of Community Development and other stakeholders organized commemoration activities in Kasama, Ndola and Lusaka.

This Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/237 of 1993.

School WASH Project extended

The School WASH and Quality Education Project implemented by DAPP in the Northern Province has been extended by 18 months. This follows the successful implementation of the project from 11 March 2009 to 10 March 2012. Over 320,000 pupils in 800 schools in all the 12 districts of the province were provided with water and sanitation facilities as well as sanitation and hygiene education.

The Project was implemented with funding and technical assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The extended project will provide water and sanitation facilities to addition 150 schools in the province.

The budget for the extension is US$1,999,490 and will be funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by DAPP in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Local Government and Housing.

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