Another former UK colony that became independent in 1964, Zambia was to quickly deteriorate from being a leading economy in Africa to essentially a basket case as single party rule gripped and suffocated the country and stifled enterprise until democracy emerged in the early years of the 1990s. In the years since then, there has been recovery yet Zambia is still in 146th place out of 189 countries and territories in 2019 when ranked in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and the living standards of a country with a life expectancy of just 63.51 years (2018). This low life expectancy is partly as a result of the
wave of HIV/AIDS that has run unchecked in the country
with some 15% of the entire population now infected. This has
contributed to the one half million orphaned children
out of an overall country population of some thirteen
million people ~ in fact one out of every three children
in Zambia under the age of fifteen is an orphan.
Life is made harsher in Zambia as few in rural communities have access to safe drinking water nor sanitation and with widespread poverty affecting 78% of the rural population, over half of all children in those communities are malnourished with vitamin deficiency and anaemia widespread. There is a thriving volunteer work sector in Zambia and most of that volunteer work is supporting and caring for
orphans and otherwise abandoned children, rolling out heath care programs, teaching and community strengthening as well as helping develop sustainable farming methods and outreach work with street children.
Please note many volunteer work opportunities in Zambia have been put on hold because of travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully they will be back up and running soon. In the meantime, if you run or
know of a volunteer work project in Zambia Leone let us know by
contacting here. We look forward
to hearing from you!
Volunteer Work Zambia: Beautiful Gate
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Volunteer Work Zambia: Book Bus
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Volunteer Work Zambia: The Butterfly Tree
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Volunteer Work Zambia: African Impact
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Volunteer Work Zambia: Hands at Work
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