The Children's AIDS Fund (CAF) has been involved in both domestic and global progr...
CAF collaborates with a large number of service organizations and government leade...
CAF’s first staff member went to Uganda in the last 1980s to work for several mont...
Since 2003, CAF has worked with Zambian partner organizations to provide HIV care, treatment and services. In 2007, CAF Zambia was initiated to provide support for local partners and serve as liaison with government and private-sector leaders.
Expanded Church Response to HIV/AIDS Trust (ECR) has been a CAF partner in several projects. President and founder Bishop Joshua Banda is currently Chairman of the Zambia National AIDS/HIV/STI/TB Council.
CAF Programs and Partners in Zambia
CAF supports five treatment and care sites in Zambia as part of the AIDSRelief consortium. Circle of Hope was founded by a group of HIV positive members of the Northmead Assembly of God Church and is located in the Manda Hills area of Lusaka.
Macha Hospital is a government hospital in rural Choma. Chreso Ministries, an outreach of Gospel Outreach Fellowship, is operating three treatment sites, one in Lusaka, one in Livingstone and on in Kabwe Prison.
Through a partnership with Helping Hands Africa, an outreach of the Nazarene Church, CAF supports a prevention program that in 2007 trained more than 300 peer facilitators who reached more than 50,000 youth with messages of abstinence and faithfulness.
CAF also facilitated the prevention outreach of True Love Waits in 2006 and 2007.
CAF supports a number of orphans through local partners by providing school uniforms, school supplies and tuition, as well as one-time special needs.