What We Do

We work together with millions of people around Zambia: farmers and their families; children, parents and grandparents; health support groups and girls’ clubs; and teachers and students in schools to create development

Agriculture and Climate Change

DAPP Zambia’s agriculture and climate change programs support small holder farmers to increase production, income, resilience and address the impact of climate change. Our approach to supporting sustainable agriculture and environment puts farmers and their families at the centre of all activities.

Agriculture

We set up Farmers’ Clubs to share new farming methods and knowledge. We mobilise the farmers to act together improving production, support one another with finance for expansion, conduct collective marketing and much more, for them to advance together towards common goals.

  • We work with 536 Farmers’ Clubs in 8 districts situated in Southern, Eastern and Central provinces of Zambia, organising 23,366 smallholder farmers
  • We support Young Farmers’ Clubs for youth between 16 to 26 years of age under the slogan “Proud to be Rural”
  • We promote conservation agriculture using Climate Smart Techniques, diversification of production including small livestock, fish farming, etc.
  • Farmers are linked to inputs, markets, micro finance and insurance

 

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Health and Fight against HIV/AIDS

DAPP works with communities to leverage Zambia’s Ministry of Health in promoting health interventions and services. DAPP is enabling individual community members to take centre-stage in safeguarding their own health and wellbeing. To achieve this, DAPP engages community members of diverse backgrounds and influence, among them local, traditional and faith-based leaders, neighbourhood health committee members,community health workers, psychosocial counsellors, peer educators and volunteers who reach out to their own communities with key health information and interventions.

Health and fight against HIV/AIDS

DAPP adopts and employs a holistic approach to the fight against major health problems.

  • HIV Prevention, Diagnosis at home and Care
  • TB Prevention, Linkage and Care until cured
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • Gender Based Violence Prevention
  • Nutrition and Infants’ first 1000 days
  • Water and Sanitation
  • Malaria Prevention, Malaria Test and Treat

 

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Community Development

DAPP Child Aid establishes structures including Community Action Groups and Savings and Lending Groups, which focus on shared skills and knowledge development to identify and create wealth from resources within their reach. It promotes the use of diversity and improved farming methods and technologies, as well as stakeholder engagement.

Health and fight against HIV/AIDS

The approach recognises that poor health exacerbates poverty and vulnerability by reducing a family's work productivity. DAPP tackles this through a three-tier approach of prevention, treatment and aftercare services, reaching beneficiaries with services through community-based actors such as Community Health Workers, Safe Motherhood Action Groups, youth champions and volunteers to combat disease including HIV, TB and Malaria, to improve nutrition, mother and child health as well as access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.

  • Organising families in Community Action Groups for them to work together and improve the living conditions, health and survival of their children
  • Building the capacity of community structures such as Community Welfare Assistance Committees for long term sustainability
  • Working with and training Savings and Lending Groups to build economic resilience
  • Reaching out to young populations with heath awareness programmes, skills training and economic empowerment
  • Involving the whole community to identify the change we need to see and to find solutions using available resources

 

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Education

DAPP’s pedagogy is characterised by creating a space for students of all ages to be the drivers and navigators of their own training, in a collective setting where studying together and individually goes hand in hand. Exploring the reality of life and using what is learned to influence that reality are essential recognisable elements – from preschool to teacher diploma level, in academic studies integrated with sustainable life skills.

Education

  • We offer teacher training designed to equip teachers to teach in rural primary schools
  • We offer Vocational skills training in areas such as Tailoring, Carpentry and Agriculture to 67 children and youths from communities
  • We offer Practical Theoretical Education (PTE) from Grade 7 to 9 in a double stream that incorporates children from the communities and former street children, 173 children
  • We offer Primary education from pre-school to grade 6 to 343 children and support 14 pre-schools with a total population of 367 children aged between 5 and 7

 

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Clothes and Shoes

DAPP’s sale of second hand clothes and shoes has been developed over many years as a social enterprise to create double value in promoting sustainability and supporting social development projects across Zambia.

Clothes and Shoes

The sales fund social development projects at the same time protect the environment. Our work in this venture is further critical in reducing waste, promoting reuse and providing affordable clothing to people in Zambia.

The sale of second hand clothes and shoes provides revenue to support DAPP Zambia development projects which have been undertaken over the years.

This is attained from the sales’ surplus, and together with other partners, over a hundred development projects have been supported over time.

As a way of promoting self-employment, innovative business traders also find an opportunity to buy clothes at reasonable prices for resale at a profit all across the country.

Good quality clothes are available for people who otherwise cannot afford to buy clothes of such a standard. Sales cover both urban and rural areas, while shops are often located in cities. The clothing is a vehicle for poverty reduction, helping to create jobs and grow both local and national economies.

 

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