About Us 
Our Mission
Our Programmes
Our Objectives
How we intend to reach them
The Project Current Situation
What We Do
Geographical Focus
Organisation Structure
Collaborating Partners New Horizon Orphanage (NHO) is a local Non Governmental Organization (NGO) for underprivileged girl child. Currently the organization is working with 30 children living in and 350 children in the compounds and streets of Lusaka. NHO was conceived in 1999 and there after registered under the companies Act of Zambia as a company by guarantee in the same year. back to the top
NHO envisions a world of sustainable livelihood for all. Our mission is to empower orphans, street and out of school children to become healthy responsible citizens through provision of basic education, practical and life skills, by networking with our partners through well-focused programs, managed by skilled and dedicated personnel. The main goal/objective of NHO as a direct policy actor is to support homeless and needy children in their immediate as well as long term needs. back to the top
NHO aims not only at providing emergency shelter, food and protection, but also schooling, skills training, counseling and mentoring for street children between the ages of 5 and 15. These goals are achieved through the following programs;
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Skills Training and income generating§
Education program§
Outreach program§
Integration program§
Mother's program§
Feeding program§
Sports and recreation program2 Managers coordinate the organization. These Managers head various departments, whilst 3 hierarchically arranged volunteers coordinate the above programmes. see organisation chart
General Objective
The objective of NHO is to support homeless and needy children through the provision of basic life needs like food, shelter, clothing and education. back to the top
The project's primary target group is the children. These include the children in the streets of Lusaka. Basically, these children range from ages 5 to 18. However, while children younger than the aforesaid age group may be contacted and referred to appropriate homes, those that are older then this age group will be left out. The intended primary beneficiaries are the homeless street children.
Secondary Beneficiaries
The secondary beneficiaries include the family as well as the nation at large. Firstly, the families from which the children are coming will benefit from the reunion of their family members. NHO will further provide avenues for willing mothers to enroll in the Micro Credit Schemes under the Mothers programme.
The project will also decongest the streets of street children hence restoring the beauty of the streets, thereby providing safety for the general public. This will be in form of reduced crime that will result, as some street children, while on the streets, resort to stealing and prostitution to make ends meet. back to the top
The project has responded to the plight of orphaned and vulnerable girl child. NHO is addressing orphaned children's needs such as accommodation, food, basic health, education, life skills, clothes, counselling, self-respect and dignity.
Among them some are sexually abused or they are victims of polyandrous activities. The results are pathetic; young girls are infected with the HIV/AID viruses at a tender age.
We have been in the existence for the past 3 years and have worked with more than 272 orphans and other vulnerable children. Last year from August we have withdrawn 42 single and double-orphaned girls from the street and successfully reintegrated 22 children around Lusaka and up Country. back to the top
The project was established to respond to the plight of orphaned and vulnerable girl children. The issues that the orphanage is addressing include education, psychosocial support and vocational skills development.
It is a policy of the NHO to make every effort possible to ensure that orphans remain in the home, with family and/or in the community whenever possible. Our preference is to return street children to the communities from which they came, or with relatives, or family friends when possible. But, when all else fails we make every effort to take children off the street and get them to a warm, safe environment where they will receive love, care, food, shelter, clothing, an education and the instillation of life's principles and work ethics which will afford them an opportunity to live a whole, rewarding and productive life.
The project provide avenues for children to have back their right of belonging to society. While on the street, children are cut off from all basic rights and provision of basic life needs. They have no education, shelter, clothing, and barely manage to look for food and hence resort to eating abandoned food from bins. This greatly affects their health and life in general. As they grow up, they become 'un-useful' members of society. It is therefore imperative that these children be integrated into reformatory institutions where they can learn and grow up into adult sustainable livelihoods. Others will also be reintegrated into their families.
Over all, the project will have provided the street children with better and sustainable livelihoods. back to the top
The services activity location covers the areas of Kaunda Square stage 1 and 2, Kamanga compound and Chamba Valley farm block. The current catachment area that NHO is operating has a estimated population of 18.000 people. The community members in the area estimate that an average of 2 to 3 people die every week in the area. Though information on the nature of death is un obtainable one cannot help but to conclude that of the 8 to 12 people that die in a month half of them die from HIV/AIDS related illness because of the chronic nature of their illness. Another factor pointing to this conclusion is the high preference rate of 27% that was
recorded in the area in 1999.It is against this background that the New Horizon Orphanage has been established. The establishment will cater for orphaned girls between the ages of Four (4) and fifteen (15). The orphanage will be provide emotional developmental needs, physical needs, pre-school education and life skills training to the girls. The orphanage is catering for twenty-eight girls who are from the orphanage coverage area and beyond.
The orphanage is situated in Chainama residential area and is surrounded by a High-density community which does not have any facilitates that is dedicated to the welfare of the disadvantaged and orphaned girl child.
Since its inception, NHO has undoubtedly strived to implement and bring to its threshold the basic ingredients of life that its sees as necessary tools of life. These tools are among many others. Formal and informal education, skills training, Health care, reintegration, counselling linkages, and bodying and advocacy. On a larger scale the six interventions practices have yielded good results.
NHO has looked at education (non formal) as any organized systematic learning activity carried on outside any formal school education. Under it, there is a mere provision of selected types of learning to particular sub-group of population; here the underprivileged girl child.
Formal primary education is a foundation for all other levels, and NHO strives to see that we create and protect the access of girl child orphans and other disadvantaged children to this fundamental level of education. back to the top
The project operates as a non-government and non-profitable, charitable organization. The Board of Directors constitute the standing committee whose role is advisory, and manages the affairs and operation of the Half Home.
Our organization has 4 women volunteers who are not on the payroll. These women provide their services to the half home out of their commitment as mothers and their love for children.Why women? The reason being that we are dealing with the plight of a traumatized and ostracized girl child. The organization does sometimes provide stipend to the women for their upkeep. In addition to the four women the half home also uses the services of a child psychologist from the University of Zambia. The psychologist is essential in developing psychological needs of the individual child. His services are purely voluntary and critical to our rehabilitation program.
NHO has been sustained financially by the following organizations, institutions, associations and business communities:
Ministry of Community Development and Social Services
Project Concern International Zambia (PCIZ)
Local Business Community
Church/religious financial support
NHO Board of Directors
Firelight Foundation
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