Current Projects

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This is an annual program that has become a flagship event in the Obama area since its first run in 2015. The program has since expanded and catering to communities in Shimabala, Chisamba, Chongwe and Rufunsa. The primary objective is to allow vulnerable children to celebrate Christmas. They share a meal, exchange gifts, and make presentations in form of poems sketches and testimonies. There are several talks from subject matter specialists on topics such as hygiene and sanitation, drugs and substance abuse, fire safety, HIV/AIDS, gender and child rights and equality among other topics. The attendance has grown from year to year with the 2018 outfit attracting more than 350 children in Obama alone. In 2019 we blessed over 800 children. The Covid pandemic has necessitated the nonholding of these events lately. This has seen us distributing food hampers to vulnerable households as a surrogate program to ensure the festive mood is shared with the vulnerable. In 2020, food hampers were distributed to over 200 households across 4 communities. 

 Access to clean water has been identified as a crucial need affecting elderly women led households in urban and rural communities alike. The levels of need are both at household and community level. Shining Future Zambia SFZ has over the past year facilitated delivery of water to elderly womenheaded households in Chawama, Chainda, Ng’ombe compounds in Lusaka. Similarly, the organization rehabilitated a community borehole at Mwanawasa Settlement in Mikango are of Chongwe, which had been out of operation for over a year.  

 This effort goes toward helping identified vulnerable families with an upgrade/improvement to existing living quarters or construction of a new house altogether. A new house was built and handed over to one beneficiary in Chawama compound in 2021.  

 The proposed project is situated in Chimunthu Village near Kazemba Hill in Chief Bunda Bunda’s area of Rufunsa District. Its main aim is to provide an opportunity to youths and women to participate in rain fed and irrigation based crop cultivation Shining Future Zambia as well as manufacturing of wood crafts such as school desks and home furniture. The intention is to run this project as a self-sustaining entity whose primary demand for support is initial capital for equipment and workshops. The beneficiaries will be churned out once they have attained the right level of proficiency and established their own entrepreneurial base.  

 The aim of this club is to encourage mostly stay-home mothers to venture out in small but meaningful entrepreneurial activities aimed at supporting their sustenance. These include but not limited to backyard gardening, tailoring, general trading, and hair braiding among others. The activities are typically demand low initial capital and are more hands on. The variation however is to have a common roof with all these activities so as to allow the community a single stop for most of their needs which can be met by this club. Equally, the program will involve talks from various presenters on savings, investments and financial management in the home and businesses.  

 This program targets young girls in schools. The program aims to give girls an opportunity for mentorship with the help of women who’ve achieved success in various fields. This will be achieved through mass addresses and follow up sessions. Within the context of this activity, targets will include school going girls and boys who are vulnerable to sexual abuse at the hand of society. This can be inform of physically inflicted abuse or the barriers to help that perpetrators and family/guardians put usually in the name of saving face or earning some monetory compensation. This program will provide information to young girls and boys on the safe spaces available for them to seek justice in an event they have fallen victim. More importantly the program will seek empower the girls and boys with information on how they can detect early signs of abuse and how they can escape by seeking effective help and intervention.