Hello stefan and all,
Thanks for the infomation for children.HOpefully, English is the best language we can use to communicate to chibolya children.However,
there are other languages spoken ie tonga.nyanja,bemba etc.I really think engish is ideal.Thanks ken for this it's a good initiative and we shall use it progressively.
Have a nice weekend.
thanks,
innocent

Hello All,

Michelle found the site of Novica some time ago. We wrote them an e-mail and this is their answer:

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Dear Stefan,

Thank you for taking the time to write us. Unfortunately, at this time, this project is on hold. However, we will keep your proposal on hand and take it into consideration when this project is once again active.

Best regards,

Stephanie
NOVICA.com
http://www.novica.com
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So lets hope for the best when the project is active again. In the mean time keep on searching their are more funds out there.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Monique

Hello

I contacted a magazine yesterday in the Netherlands.
Its a magazine for women. They always have puzzles in their magazine. If you know the answer you can call or write them. The call costs money and on your enveloppe you need to put extra stamps. The money from the calls and the extra stamps go to a project somewhere in the world. Projects much like ours.

I aksed them if we, Chibolya, could be one of theire projects so we can get some money through funds but in a different way then through a organisation.

Maybe things likes this happen in magazines in your country? If so, it would be great if you could contact them, because we need to go through all the possibilites we have. Also when it is just a little bit of money. Many little bits develop in a large amount so everything is welcome.

Monique

Hello

I already have a reaction, but not a possitive I'm afraid.
The magazine likes our project, but they already planned the next few years with other projects..

Better luck next time.

Monique

Hello friends,
Iam happy for the effort we all apply to get our goal achieved.Surelly,it is not an easy task to pursue however.But iam hopeful that soon our call will be met. I have also contacted local organisations which i am now awaiting their reactions and will let you know.These are plan zambia and irish aid zamiba.Let us hope all will be fine.
Best regards,
innocent.

Hello Innocent,

Thank you for contacting those 2 organisations.
Lokal organisations know the problems you face in Zambia and they know the area.
Lets hope they can help us.

Monique

Research Summary:

My PhD research is investigating ‘Child-headed Households’ (CHH) in which minors are responsible for (often) younger siblings/relatives/friends. CHH may include children who have formed household units irrespective of kinship ties, such as ‘surrogate street families’ (Beazley, 2003); groups of child relatives (e.g. group of siblings) who are coping on their own following abandonment by or death of parents; and ‘young carers’ (Robson and Ansell, 2001) who have assumed the role of the household head because of the inability of the present adult (e.g. because of ill-health, disability, substance addiction). The phenomenon of CHH is of growing interest to the UK-based NGO Street Child Africa who have identified them in urban areas of Zambia and are the non-academic partner in this research. This PhD follows pilot research commissioned by Street Child Africa which made preliminary investigations regarding the extent and nature of CHH, knowledge and understanding about them and current interventions with them in two provinces in Zambia: Lusaka and the Copperbelt. Data collection included surveys of two community schools and one compound community and focus group discussions and interviews with key stakeholders, including development organisations and community members. The pilot study indicated the need for more comprehensive research, not only to clarify the true status of CHH in Zambia, but to investigate, more closely, a number of complex issues pertaining to its apparent growth in recent years and the implications this growth holds for the future. Therefore, my PhD research is building on these issues through an ethnographic and participatory study with CHH in Zambia using a toolkit of methods (e.g. participatory observation; in-depth informal interviews; focus group discussions; and various PAR techniques). The findings of this research will ultimately inform Street Child Africa’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa with in terms of the formulation of appropriate policy and sustainable programme interventions.

Research Update: January 2006

I am now in the second year of my PhD research in Zambia on the issue of Child-Headed Households (CHH) which is a collaborative piece of research bringing Street Child Africa and the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway (University of London), together. During my first year (2004-2005), I returned to Zambia to follow up on the pilot study research which was conducted in April 2004 and begin the first of two much longer phases of qualitative, participatory fieldwork with CHH. Over the course of 6 months in Zambia, and working alongside 5 NGOs, 4 research assistants and numerous community leaders and officials, information on CHH was gathered from four research sites (urban, semi-urban and rural) with 100 households. A group of 12 core CHH formed the focus for more in-depth ethnographic case study work using a toolkit of informal, qualitative and participatory techniques and revealing much about the day-to-day existence of CHH. To give an idea of the kinds of households which are the focus of this research, I have included an extract from one of the case studies below:

“Rose is 13 years old and lives in a shanty compound in Lusaka. She is the head of her household which includes her two younger siblings – Felicity, 9 and Mulenga, 7, and also occasionally, her alcoholic grandfather. She wakes up at 6 am, fetches water from the tap and returns to bath her young ones. When she has money for school fees, she sends her sister to school, then walks, with her young brother, into town: a journey that takes them about 40 minutes – a long way to walk especially for a 13 and a 7 yr old. Once in town, Rose heads straight to the market where she jostles with other customers for fish, which she takes back home. She then spends the afternoon drying the fish in the sunshine and catching up on household chores: washing clothes, cooking and sweeping. When I asked Rose about the household chores that she does, she says the washing is the easiest because they only have one set of clothes each so there is never much to do. In the evening she prepares the one meal she and siblings eat each day. When darkness falls, she puts the young ones to bed and goes out onto the street and into taverns and bars where she sells fish to the customers, usually until about 10 or 11 pm. When asked what her biggest fear is, Rose says she worries about the safety of her young ones when she is out selling at night as the shanty is a dangerous place. Rose is a street child. She spends most of her time on the street to make money. She has a roof over her head now but the place is rented and she can’t afford to pay now that her parents are dead. She is four months behind on payments and it won’t be long before she is kicked out and will be also sleeping on the streets with her young brother and sister in tow.”

The next stage of the doctoral research:

I will be returning to Zambia this academic year for a further 6 month phase of fieldwork which will involve tracing CHH from the last visit and doing more in-depth work with them. The research design will continue to be child-centred and focussed, with the specific methodology being developed in consultation with core CHH, gatekeeper organisations and community stakeholders. It will aim to address new themes and questions arsing from analysis of the data collected to date; assess and explore the changes experienced by CHH over the last year; investigate, more deeply, issues highlighted by CHH as having particular significance in their lives; and examine, more explicitly, appropriate forms of assistance through an on-going dialogue with all stakeholders.

Hello Boaz,
Thank you for your comprehensive research in zambia which covers our iterest too.We will be happy to see you in zambia when you visit zambia for your next research programme.P/se you are welcome to chioblyaon your mission.
Thanks for the kind contributions.
innocent

Hello All,

I contacted Hope Connection today.
Lets hope for a possitive answer.

We did not find any funding yet, so please contact the organistations already found and try and find new ones.

How is the weather over at your place?
Here in Germany it is really warm, 35 degrees, but I enjoy it in the shadow at least. Its better then rain, so me and my little girl spent most of the day in our back yard.

Bye

Monique

Hello

I made an excel document (see attachment) in which we can tell each other about our progress.

Everybody is free to make changes and contact the organisations he or she likes. To avoid double contacting post a message asap when you contact somebody. When you contact the organisations you can use the letter template (see resources) but ofcourse you do not have to use it.

I will also put this document in the resources, so please take a look at it and use it.

Comments about the document are welcome aswell.

Bye

Monique

funds.xls

Hi,
I'm involved in the Mutendere village, I saw your list of organisations and there are Dutch organisations as well. I'm from Holland and busy with fundraising for my foundation (www.schoolchildafrica.com) and I went to COS (www.cossen.nl) for advise. This regional organisation gives advice about how to fundraise in The Netherlands. Maybe you can email them if one of you speaks Dutch and ask for help!

Good luck! Willeke

Hello Willeke

First of all welcome as a neighbour of Chibolya.
Great work that you are doing for Mutendre. Did you already find many funds for your own foundation?

We will contact COS. I (Monique) am dutch so I see no problem in contacting them. Thanks for the advice.

If you have any more ideas or know organisations we could contact please let us know. Or if your organisations needs another project, please let us know and we will apply :-D .

Have a nice sunday (the weather in the Netherlands and Germany (near Venlo) where we live wil be great!).

Monique

Hi Monique,

Thanks for you reply! Our project has got 3 phases and for the 1st phase we work together with NCDO and Plan Nederland. For the 2nd phase we're searching now. There are a lot of funds in NL but you need a foundation I think. That's why I started my foundation. But the COS can help you! If you want to know more you can email or call me. Mutendere is in Zambia as well, so we can exchange information! In July I visited Zambia for the second time, it's really great!

Good luck! Willeke

Hello Willeke,

We are setting up a charity for Chibolya in Zambia.
At least we are gethering information at the moment, but we will probably do so.

I sent an E-mail to COS but I got no reply yet. I did not call them yet (no time, Stefan was in the hospital), but I will do so soon.

Thanks for your offer to share information. Its great if we could help each other.

Bye

Monique

Hi

I got this info: from Kerewan-Gambia I'm sure this info. will help your project to get some funds to your project.
Indira

www.publicwelfare.org is the website for the Public Welfare Foundation which does not have any geographical limitations on who can receive grant money from them.

2. www.rockfound.org is the website for The Rockefeller Foundation which funds grants in the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Lao P.D.R., Cambodia, Vietnam, and China’s Yunnan province through an office in Bangkok, Thailand. Grants in Africa are funded through offices in either Nairobi, Kenya or Harare, Zimbabwe.

3. www.wkkf.org is the website for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation which funds grants in Latin America and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. In Latin America and the Caribbean the foundation has two major strategies in programming.

Meanwhile we have to send an inquiry or proposal through mail to the one below:

*** www.milagrofoundation.org is the website for the foundation established by Deborah and Carlos Santana to make grants to community-based organizations that work with children and youth in the U.S. and overseas. To contact by mail: Milagro Foundation; P.O. Box 9125; San Raphael, California 94912-9125.