Reproductive health complications: Child marriage and child prostitution exposes children to early child bearing when they are not physically and psychologically mature to assume roles of childbearing and child rearing. Among the consequences of child marriage is maternal mortality. The risks of death associated with pregnancy and childbirth is five times higher in girls under […]
Christmas cards from sponsors were mailed to Zambia on November 1, 2018 and arrived in Zambia on December 11, 2018. On December 14, 2018 the LifeSavers team drove to Lukata community to deliver the Christmas cards along with Christmas gift bags. The bags had toiletries for the teens and goodies for the children.
ID #: LSZ (C)-014 Name: Tinasher Maswilili Date of Birth: 11-11-2007 Gender: Male My name is Tinasher and I am 10 years old. I live in Lukata with my auntie. I started living with her after the death of my father. My auntie is a peasant farmer and after school, my brother and I help […]
Build a larger school so all Lukatan children can attend school. Lukata’s community school built mostly by community members many years ago only goes through the 9th grade. Of the more than 2,000 Lukatan children, only approximately seven hundred get to go to school, due to limited seating. Another classroom foundation will be built with […]
Catherine Nkhoma (LSZ-021) My name is Catherine Nkhoma a girl born November 15, 2000 doing grade 11 at Kamaila Secondary School. Both of my parents are deceased, I live in Lukata Village with my grandmother, who supports six grandchildren, including me. We try to help by weeding people’s gardens or sowing seeds and cleaning people’s gardens […]
Rosina Maponya (LSZ-018) Greetings from Zambia. My name is Rosina, I was born April 17, 2001. I am living in Lukata village, in the Central Province of Zambia. I was born in a family of five children, I am the second born. I have had difficulties in my life due to poverty that has hit […]
Erika Tembo (LSZ-012) My name is Erica and I was born April 1, 2000. I am living in Lukata Village with my grand Mother. I am the third born in a family of four where two are boys and two girls. My parents are separated and mother lives elsewhere with her elder sister. I am […]
Anna Maponya (LSZ-011) My name is Anna Maponya and I was born June 19, 2000. I live in Lukata Village, which is about 25km from Lusaka town off the Great North Road. I stay with my mother and father and I have five siblings. My parents are peasant farmers and my siblings and I help […]
Edith Muchele (LSZ-008) My name is Edith and I was born May 13, 2000. I stay in Lukata village, which is about 5 km off Great North Road and 35km from Lusaka town. I stay with my mother and father within Lukata. When I was in grade eight (8) I dropped out of school because […]