Welcome to Development Aid from People to People in Zambia
Development Aid from People to People has for the past 20 years been actively involved in long-term development projects in Zambia in areas including Education, Community Development, Agriculture and Rural Development, Health including the fight against HIV/AIDS, Economic Development and Environmental Conservation.
The organisation strives, through the implementation of its projects, to work with the needy by providing knowledge, skills and tools that empower them and their families to face and overcome the challenges of everyday life, and thereby improving their livelihoods.
As Development Aid from People to People in Zambia, we have over the years adopted as a slogan “Fighting with the poor” and we want to see people themselves become the driving force in development with structures, methods and experiences gained in any community sustained and/or replicated to other areas even after DAPP projects come to an end.
Currently, Development Aid from People to People in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Zambia and other local and international partners in development is implementing 23 projects reaching approximately 1 million Zambians.
Children’s Town: Provides a home, a school and a future for former street children.The programme also runs a community school for orphans and vulnerable children from pre-school to grade nine.
Farmers' Club: This programme is in 6 districts and its main objective is to improve food security and income among small-scale farmers through the promotion of gardening, livestock production and irrigation systems using rope pumps, treadle pumps as well as small motorised engines.
DAPP Mkushi Teacher Training College: The first DAPP Teacher Training College to be opened in Mkushi District in the first quarter of 2012. The College will be training teachers for rural primary schools where demand for teachers is high. The 2-year certificate training course the college will be offering focuses on providing the student teachers with an all-round education and giving them a good foundation for providing child-centred quality education as well as providing their pupils with life skills and making the schools centres for development in the rural communities.
Child Aid: Integrated Community Development programmes implemented in 24 districts with emphasis on activities that improve the living conditions for children and entire families.
HOPE Programmes: Contribute towards the fight against HIV/AIDS and support people infected and affected by the virus in 9 districts across Zambia.
Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE): A systematic door-to-door HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme providing HIV/AIDS information as well as counselling, testing and care to people in the Southern Province. The Project was finalised in Mazabuka and it is now in Monze district and in the process of rolling out in Choma district.
Clothes and Shoes Fundraising Business: This project sells second hand clothes and shoes and raises funds for other development projects.
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Promoting child care and early educationDAPP has been awarded a contract by UNICEF to implement a project on early childcare, development and education in four district in Central, Luapula and Northern Provinces.
The project titled “Improving Access to ECCDE for Children in Central, Luapula and Northern Provinces of Zambia” has already rolled out its activities in Mumba, Chibombo, Samfya and Mungwi Districts and would be run from 2012 to December 2013.
The objective of the project is to improve early childcare, development and education (ECCDE) for 10,000 children through community sensitization and training in 700 villages, and through establishment and strengthening of 55 ECCDE centres (Pre-schools) in the 4 target districts.
The community-based integrated ECCDE centres are centres of activities including early education, health, nutrition, child protection and parenting programmes, and growth monitoring in with parents taking centre stage in running the centres to ensure sustainability.
Providing care and support to the vulnerable DAPP has clinched an agreement with World Vision Zambia to implement an OVC and HIV/AIDS-related project in six districts across Zambia.
The title of the project is “Community Involvement in HIV Prevention and Care Project” and it will be run in Monze, Kaoma, Mongu, Nchelenge, Chibombo, and Mpika Districts in line with the STEPS OVC project strategic framework.
The aim of the project is to improve the livelihood for orphans and vulnerable children and for people living with HIV/ AIDS and to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Activities include provision of support to orphans and vulnerable children, strengthening income for the vulnerable families, improving nutrition for OVC and people living with HIV, counselling and testing, and carrying out HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns among school and out-of-school youths in the target districts. During the implementation period which is June 2012 to end of March 2013, the project will be providing prevention, care and support services to a total of 59,250 direct and indirect beneficiaries.
The DAPP College programme impresses GovtGovernment has said the DAPP Mkushi College of Education is a model centre of teacher training excellence and a gateway toward prosperity of the rural population.
Minister of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education Dr John Phiri said this during the official opening of the DAPP Mkushi College of Education on 23 August 2012.
Dr Phiri commended DAPP for championing the cause of the poor in Zambia by training teachers who would not only provide quality education to pupils in rural schools, but also be able to identify community problems and participate in uplifting the livelihoods of people in the rural areas where they will be working.
Development Aid from People to People has for the past 20 years been actively involved in long-term development projects in Zambia in areas including Education, Community Development, Agriculture and Rural Development, Health including the fight against HIV/AIDS, Economic Development and Environmental Conservation.
The organisation strives, through the implementation of its projects, to work with the needy by providing knowledge, skills and tools that empower them and their families to face and overcome the challenges of everyday life, and thereby improving their livelihoods.
As Development Aid from People to People in Zambia, we have over the years adopted as a slogan “Fighting with the poor” and we want to see people themselves become the driving force in development with structures, methods and experiences gained in any community sustained and/or replicated to other areas even after DAPP projects come to an end.
Currently, Development Aid from People to People in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Zambia and other local and international partners in development is implementing 23 projects reaching approximately 1 million Zambians.
Children’s Town: Provides a home, a school and a future for former street children.The programme also runs a community school for orphans and vulnerable children from pre-school to grade nine.
Farmers' Club: This programme is in 6 districts and its main objective is to improve food security and income among small-scale farmers through the promotion of gardening, livestock production and irrigation systems using rope pumps, treadle pumps as well as small motorised engines.
DAPP Mkushi Teacher Training College: The first DAPP Teacher Training College to be opened in Mkushi District in the first quarter of 2012. The College will be training teachers for rural primary schools where demand for teachers is high. The 2-year certificate training course the college will be offering focuses on providing the student teachers with an all-round education and giving them a good foundation for providing child-centred quality education as well as providing their pupils with life skills and making the schools centres for development in the rural communities.
Child Aid: Integrated Community Development programmes implemented in 24 districts with emphasis on activities that improve the living conditions for children and entire families.
HOPE Programmes: Contribute towards the fight against HIV/AIDS and support people infected and affected by the virus in 9 districts across Zambia.
Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE): A systematic door-to-door HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme providing HIV/AIDS information as well as counselling, testing and care to people in the Southern Province. The Project was finalised in Mazabuka and it is now in Monze district and in the process of rolling out in Choma district.
Clothes and Shoes Fundraising Business: This project sells second hand clothes and shoes and raises funds for other development projects.
News Today
Promoting child care and early educationDAPP has been awarded a contract by UNICEF to implement a project on early childcare, development and education in four district in Central, Luapula and Northern Provinces.
The project titled “Improving Access to ECCDE for Children in Central, Luapula and Northern Provinces of Zambia” has already rolled out its activities in Mumba, Chibombo, Samfya and Mungwi Districts and would be run from 2012 to December 2013.
The objective of the project is to improve early childcare, development and education (ECCDE) for 10,000 children through community sensitization and training in 700 villages, and through establishment and strengthening of 55 ECCDE centres (Pre-schools) in the 4 target districts.
The community-based integrated ECCDE centres are centres of activities including early education, health, nutrition, child protection and parenting programmes, and growth monitoring in with parents taking centre stage in running the centres to ensure sustainability.
Providing care and support to the vulnerable DAPP has clinched an agreement with World Vision Zambia to implement an OVC and HIV/AIDS-related project in six districts across Zambia.
The title of the project is “Community Involvement in HIV Prevention and Care Project” and it will be run in Monze, Kaoma, Mongu, Nchelenge, Chibombo, and Mpika Districts in line with the STEPS OVC project strategic framework.
The aim of the project is to improve the livelihood for orphans and vulnerable children and for people living with HIV/ AIDS and to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Activities include provision of support to orphans and vulnerable children, strengthening income for the vulnerable families, improving nutrition for OVC and people living with HIV, counselling and testing, and carrying out HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns among school and out-of-school youths in the target districts. During the implementation period which is June 2012 to end of March 2013, the project will be providing prevention, care and support services to a total of 59,250 direct and indirect beneficiaries.
The DAPP College programme impresses GovtGovernment has said the DAPP Mkushi College of Education is a model centre of teacher training excellence and a gateway toward prosperity of the rural population.
Minister of Education, Science, Vocational Training and Early Education Dr John Phiri said this during the official opening of the DAPP Mkushi College of Education on 23 August 2012.
Dr Phiri commended DAPP for championing the cause of the poor in Zambia by training teachers who would not only provide quality education to pupils in rural schools, but also be able to identify community problems and participate in uplifting the livelihoods of people in the rural areas where they will be working.