Chikumbuso seeks to provide specialized emergency care to girls who attend our school.
Many of our students need a safe place to live in order to finish out their education. Despite efforts through our sponsorship program to keep children in caregiver homes, many girls are left alone, kicked out of their aunties’ homes, or live in fear. Once accredited by the Zambian Ministry of Social Welfare we opened a room to take at-risk girls in.
More than a Safe Haven
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Our Community of Girls
Our safe haven, a 12-bed dormitory on campus, is an important component of our work. With it, we provide a space for the students who cannot safely live at home anymore. Even those students who don’t use it now are reassured to know there is a place for them to go should they need it for any reason.
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Sharing our Home
Living and schooling in the same center is a blessing but can “get old” for these girls. Fortunately, they have been blessed with outings to various homes, just for fun.
“There is no trust more sacred than the
one the world holds with children.”
— Kofi Annan