Hands of Compassion -Hands of Compassion Community School in Zambia

Hands of Compassion brings Hope to Orphaned Children

.Millions of African children are being orphaned by HIV AIDS. An estimated 1 in 6 people between the ages of 15 and 50 are dying of HIV AIDS, leaving over one and a half million children orphaned. Poverty and malnutrition also go hand in hand in fuelling the crisis. It is a tragic situation, but not hopeless because of the care and compassion of our work.

What Hands of Compassion
is Doing

One of the grass root projects supported by Hands of Compassion is in Zambia. In Chipulukusu, a large shanty compound near Ndola, we set up a community school for orphaned and vulnerable children, providing free basic education to 500 children.

Education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Giving hope to these orphaned children in their lives rather than see the heartache they live with daily, struggling and not knowing how they will survive. Living in houses that have roofs which leak, they are hungry, they have few clothes that are already torn, many don't even have a blanket.

With your help ...

Hands of Compassion can continue to provide hope to orphaned or vulnerable children through basic education and develop Christian values, as well as vocational training, enabling them to have a better quality of life, become informed and fulfil their potential.

But above all, to survive

“In supporting Hands of Compassion, you will be bringing hope to many young people in Zambia. Your expressions of care and concern will do far more than you can possibly imagine in transforming the lives of these young people and their potential for shaping their own future and that of their country. On their behalf, I say thank you.”

The Rt Rev Dr Brian Castle, Bishop of Tonbridge