CRISIS NURSERIES
ZAMBIA

In Lusaka alone, Zambia’s capital, the United Nations estimates that more than one in every four adults is infected with HIV. Zambia has one of the highest percentages of orphaned children in Africa with nearly 23 percent of all children under 15 who have lost one or both parents to the disease. The younger the child is when their parents die, the more devastating the loss. Most nursing infants survive only a few days after their mothers are gone.

The Outreach Foundation, partnering with Alliance for Children Everywhere, opened the first Crisis Nursery, called the House of Martha in 1998. House of Martha has now been transferred into a new comfortable home in a great location five minutes away from the House of Moses, which opened a year later as second safe home for the youngest, most vulnerable orphans in a shantytown district of Lusaka, Zambia. This home is a 24-hour nursing center for premature and high-risk infants. It was recognized by the United Nations as a “best practices” ministry for its care of vulnerable children. In 2003, the Bill and Bette Bryant Crisis Nursery opened in yet another impoverished area of Lusaka, Garden Compound.

Generous gifts from individuals and churches through The Outreach Foundation will help all three of these critically important nurseries bring hope, healing and homes to orphaned and abandoned infants and young children. These babies and children rely upon others to provide the care that they need.

Click on the link to view a presentation by the Alliance for Children Everywhere: http://childreneverywhere.org/change4children/presentation.php