Be part of building a Village and rebuilding lives

In Chipata families are falling apart.

At SOS Children we reach out into communities through Family Strengthening Programmes which help prevent children from losing the care of their families. We offer training and support so that families can stay together. And because we know that that's not always possible, we build Children's Villages  – where children who have nothing and no-one can come and find a new family, and grow up safe and well.

You can help us build a new Village

SOS Children’s new Village in Chipata, Zambia, will be home to children left alone because of poverty and disease. Soon, the first of generations of children moving into the Children's Village will have a family home with an SOS mother. 

By sponsoring SOS Children’s Village Chipata for £20 per month you can be part of this project from its earliest stages. And you can join the global movement of SOS Children supporters who are choosing to change children’s lives.

Sponsor SOS Children's Village Chipata

All over the world, families step in when children lose the care of their parents. But when chronic poverty, and diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, pneumonia and TB are commonplace, well-established support networks are overwhelmed. Adult carers die young or are unable to support children.

Our SOS Children’s Village in Chipata will include 13 family homes, a Nursery, and a Medical Centre. We will also set up a mobile medical unit to extend our healthcare work to outlying communities. The Children's Village is being built next to the local community school – it’s called Damview Community School and it provides the local children with a chance of an education. But until now the school has had no electricity and no plumbing. SOS Children will change that.

Chipata is the main town in Zambia’s Eastern Province. Rural-urban migration has contributed to Chipata’s growing population. The construction of the railway line along the Nacala Corridor (linking Zambia to the coast of Mozambique, via Malawi) brings increased population growth through migrant labour, increased HIV infection, and the expansion of informal and squatter settlements. HIV infection rates have risen and there's a particularly high rate of family breakdown and child abandonment. Around one in six of all children in Chipata are orphans, compared to one in 12 in the general population.

Watch a video about SOS Children in Chipata: