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)

DAPP recruits 43 street youths for rehab

DAPP has recruited 43 youths from Lusaka, Kabwe and Chingola Districts into its Children ’s Town Project where they will undergo rehabilitation. The youths will be provided with vocational training and psychosocial counselling in order for them to reclaim their life-values and self-esteem.

The vocational training courses the project is providing include carpentry and joinery, metal fabrication, construction, tailoring, shop keeping and agriculture. Each student is taking the course of his or her choice.

After a 2-year vocational training programme, the youths will go on attachments to various local organisations and companies and will later go for trade testing examinations offered by Technical Education, Vocational, and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA) in order for them to get trade certificates. 
After a 2-year training, youths will be integrated into the society and monitored for one year making sure they stand on their own in business or in formal employment.

The total number of students in skills training at Children’s Town is now 70, 27 of them are in advanced level and are expected to graduate end this year.

Meanwhile, 35 skills training students graduated in 2011 after they successfully underwent rehabilitation for two years at Children's Town and are being assisted to resettle in the society through a one year reintegration programme run by the project.

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.

Crocs gives back to the needy

In its relentless effort to contribute to community development and education, Crocs defied the physical barriers that lie between Africa and Europe by donating funds for the construction of dormitories at Children’s Town project in Zambia. <<read more>>