Mission Direct - Volunteers helping the world's poor
What you'll be doing
There are two sides to Zambia’s capital Lusaka; one half of the city was planned and built with at least some basic infrastructure and amenities. But there is the other side: people have settled on land left empty around the city. They have formed shanty towns - these are communities with no schools, clinics, water or sanitation. They have settled uninvited and are all but ignored.
Nobody deserves to be invisible. Come and build some basic amenities for these people. You will be helping with basic construction and decoration tasks. You don’t need to be a skilled craftsman; just come ready to serve others. Help us to put a whole town on the map.
Fresh starts everywhere…
You will get to visit several other projects, including:
Chilenje Church Maid Training Centre
Training widows and orphans to help girls get jobs in service.
Fountain of Hope Street Kids Ministries
A Ministry taking street children and reintegrating them into education and family life.
House of Moses
The only baby centre in Zambia. It eceives over 300 newly born babies each year who have been abandoned.
Kumbaya, a School & Feeding centre located in a desperately poor shanty town. It provides teaching and a meal a day for over 300 children.
Tashe Home, run by one woman for fourteen children orphaned due to poverty and HIV/AIDS.
Old MacDonalds Farm: a Christian farming project rehabilitating over thirty street children.
Off duty in Zambia
During the trip there will be enough time off to enjoy some ‘Classic Africa’ experiences, including a safari in a local game park. Also you will be able to visit the magnificent Victoria Falls.
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All About Mission Direct
Mission Direct gives ordinary people the chance to do extraordinary things around the world. In two weeks you will change the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. You can help to build a house, classroom or clinic. We discover people and groups doing remarkable things in their own countries. Then we provide them the people and resources that they need. We do this by enabling people like you, with two or more weeks to join our life-altering trips.
Choose a country and find the trip that is right for you by clicking below to see all the options :
Restoring the gift of childhood
A proper childhood is a precious commodity. It is one that is cruelly denied to tens of thousands of children in Zambia. Due to poverty and AIDS, they are denied such basics as food, shelter and education. Most tragically, many children are even denied a loving family and left abandoned as street children.
With Mission Direct you can help to give some of these things back to Zambia’s children. You will be working on school building projects for primary school children from one of Zambia’s poorest townships, who would otherwise be denied any education at all. This is the first step out of poverty for these children and their families.
Contribution: £1,495/£1,595
Call Jackie Johnston in the Luton office
8am - 5.30pm
Mon - Fri
to apply or find out more.
t: 01582 72 00 56