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New Hope Waves Limited is a non-profit organization working to better the lives of young people and their communities with offices based in Livingstone, Zambia.

It was initiated to create hope and the future in the lives of young people and their families around the communities in Zambia.

New Hope Waves Limited is a registered non profit organisation as Company Limited by Guarantee with a non-profit legal status (NGO) which is registered with PACRA in Zambia and its Legal Company Registration No. 128916

Vision

New Hope and the Future for Young People and Families in Zambia

Motto

Changing the lives of young people to Change the Future of Africa

The Mission Statement

Empowering young people with practical skills, essential knowledge and available opportunities through access to educational support, vocational skills training, provision of healthcare, socioeconomic support and talent enhancement through sustainable development interventions for their improved living conditions for the healthy and greater future for all.

Our Mandate

The improvement of the livelihoods of young people through provision of vocational skills development training and resource support, healthcare and hygiene activities, provision of accessible quality formal education to orphaned and vulnerable young people through school support and scholarships, promotion of the upholding the rights of the vulnerable young people, support to good shelter, provision of the agroecology (smart agriculture) training and support for food security as well as protecting the environment (climate change actions) and the development family strengthening opportunities to integrate the young people with their families to better the lives of the young people and their communities in Zambia

Brief History

The organization was formed in 2009 by Auldridge Chibbwalu, the current founding leader and founder (President and Founder) who is raised in the Maramba, Livingstone, Zambia who had a challenged background which affected by his first education years but was accorded an opportunity to complete his secondary and tertiary education by a Swedish sponsors as well as traveled and exposed to participate in cultural exchange programs in Europe and feel like he owes the orphaned and vulnerable young people in the similar situation opportunities to be empowered and supported and the organization was only registered in 2015 as non profit organization in Zambia.



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Mission


Our target age groups are in two categories one; for children are from 7-14 years and for youth from 15-35 years who make up 70% of Zambia.

Objectives and Functions


  • To provide access to quality and affordable education to the children and youth to have right to education met through both formal and non formal education learning activities.

  • To empower, transform, educate, train youth with survival life and social skills through provision of accessible vocational skills development training.

  • To provide opportunities for local people to empower themselves with resources (funding, start up kits) and (training) support through agricultural and community development activities.

  • To empower youth with practical life skills (vocational training) to get involved in efforts to address socioeconomic, environmental and developmental issues that are affected them such as poverty, unemployment, poor food security and poor environmental management.

  • To prevent the spread of HIV in the communities, support and care for people living and affected by HIV (youth and their wider families).

  • To engage the youth both males and females in sport & recreational activities and providing life skills training in behaviour shaping character and talent development.

  • To uphold the right of all, without discrimination basis on race, creed, religion and other social factors.

  • To promote gender equity among children, young people, families and community for inclusive development.

  • To provide youth with all the necessary tools and skills to better their livelihood, basic healthcare, shelter, food security, education, child rights and community reintegration activities.

Activities


1. New Hope Waves Organization School

New Hope Waves is running a Pre and Primary school established in 2019 based in Maramba along Natebe road which is currently having class of the children from ages of 4 – 15 years, from Pre-school education up to Primary education grade 1-7 with more than 150 children from the most vulnerable communities of Ngwenya, Malota, Zecco, Namatama, Burton and Maramba areas of Livingstone, Zambia.

We are free providing quality education to the children from impoverished communities who parents can affordable to pay school fees and other school requirements.

We are working with mainly orphaned and vulnerable children from the communities exposed to high levels of poverty, substance abuse and illiteracy so we work to teach the children to learn how to read and write as well as to excel into secondary education and other further educational opportunities.


2. The Youth Empowerment, Skills Development and Support Program

We are providing vocational skills, business training and support aimed at empowering more than 200 orphaned and vulnerable children in the groups of 25 each to support each other as peers in 3 communities of Livingstone, Zambia and youth from the ages of 16-20 years orphaned or vulnerable who has no or less education with the necessary tools to uplift themselves from extreme poverty with the provision of training in hand on skills, business training and small business grants to support their families in addressing issues around hunger, healthcare, shelter, climate change and high poverty levels.

The program provide vocational skills development (such as barbing, hard dressing, carpentry, catering (food production), tailoring and general repairs, business and agriculture skills training, start ups kits, agricultural inputs, business grants and support to be mentored in the program by the local trained personnel as our trainers and mentors. The program has both individual businesses such groceries shops/kiosks, barbershops, saloons, fast food ventures, carpentry workshops, market stands, restaurants for members of groups as well as group activities such as a community garden in Ngwenya of Livingstone, Zambia for the group economical support as well as to promote food security both in their homes and also members has backyard gardens to support their families.


3. Football/Soccer Program

This football program is also aimed to empowering youth to stay away from substance abuse, break the cycles through talent and skills development so that we will have well-shaped individuals as well as intend to provide to them with hand on skills training and opportunities to better their livelihood and improve their communities.

This program is working with the youth from 15-25 years both males and females to develop their talents in soccer as well as to provide them with life skills to shape their lives, personal development and character development to have a healthy and balanced community.


4. Information Communication & Technology and Skills Development Program

New Hope Waves is running a small group computers lessons for young people who want to learn skills in ICT and have access to technological opportunities.

The training depends on, as well as the fact that only few computers that we have in the office space are available. computer skills.

We are currently having challenges with computers and other tools to run this program well and impact many lives of the vulnerable young people so we need donations of computers, training materials and internet facilities.


5. Youth Leadership, Environment, Permaculture, Gender Equality, Intercultural Exchange and Climate Justice Programs

We are working with a number of programs aimed at empowering young people and their communities to promote youth leadership through community life skills development that enable youth and their wider communities to curb issues affected them such as substance abuse, HIV/AIDs, Gender Inequality, Poverty and Illiteracy among young people and their wider communities.

We have current and past few partnerships with Erasmus+ Programmes with some European NGOs to promote youth capacity building, motilities and cultural exchanges between the African and European youth programs namely with CESIE (Italian NGO), SCI International networks, CSC Donilo Dolci (Italian NGO), Prism (NGO Italian) and other more also to promote both long and short-term volunteering opportunities in our community based activities.

We also running some Environmental, Gender and Permaculture activities working with the schools and communities to engage the communities to protect, preserve and take some climate actions to promote green environment through permaculture activities and gender engagement to make this world a better place to live and preserve it for the future generations.

Contact


If you have any questions nor want to get involved, please contact us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Email

info (a) newhopewaves.org

Call us

+260 977 279 624

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