Concern Universal

Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique

Founded in 1976, Concern Universal is a secular, non-political organisation with a coordinating office in the UK. In the countries in which CU is working it has established local offices staffed mainly by locally engaged personnel. Like AFAP, Concern Universal’s strategy is to respond to the challenges of poverty at a local level by working with communities and partners to facilitate the highest possible standards of development and emergency relief programs and which benefit those in greatest need. Also like AFAP, CU keeps its administrative costs to a minimum by nurturing the voluntary contribution and the spirit that sustains its work. We share a common focus on ensuring that our resources get to the intended beneficiaries.

AFAP has been working with CU’s offices in Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique since 1999. Concern Universal is one of our APAC partners.

Chikuni Home Based Care Program

Zambia

AFAP’s local partner in Zambia is the Chikuni Mission’s Home Based Care Program (CHBC), which we began supporting in 1999. The Chikuni Program is implemented by local volunteers and the staff of a Jesuit Mission which ministers to the Chikuni Parish in the poor rural districts of Monze, Gwembe, and Choma in southern Zambia. The Chikuni Program is working with poor rural communities to provide mitigation and support to those affected by HIV/AIDS. Core activities are: raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and reducing the stigma associated with being HIV positive; coordinating home-based care provided to people living with HIV/AIDS by volunteer care givers; and providing other support to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS, such as improving food security and nutrition, and micro-enterprise initiatives.

CHBC is one of our APAC partners.

Community Technology Development Trust

Zimbabwe

The Community Technology Development Trust is a grassroots NGO established in 1993 with a head office in Harare. It has well recognised expertise in sustainable agriculture and is steadily increasing its capacity in providing holistic approaches to rural development including inputs into health and education. CTDT is committed to involving smallholder farmers in participatory research and development and ensuring sustainable wellbeing to men and women. It is promoting sound community natural resources management incorporating the use of indigenous knowledge systems, providing capacity building in community agricultural development and livelihood security, and facilitating policy analysis and formulation of options and alternatives. AFAP has been working with CTDT since 1999, when we collaborated on implementing a pilot project using our innovative Forest Garden technology. CTDT is one of our APAC partners.