OUR WORK
Working in Zambia since 2004
Our medical work in Livingstone is built on long-standing relationships with local healthcare teams and community caregivers. Over more than two decades, we have supported care in government clinics, in people’s homes, and through community health education. The people delivering care locally guide the work. Our role is to provide sustained support where it is needed and to track the outcomes of that work over time.
On top of our medical work, we run community programs in education, women’s empowerment, and the environment, work that reaches the same community beyond the clinics and wards.
Healthcare in
Livingstone
Livingstone town has a public hospital and a handful of clinics, but many of the surrounding communities are rural, and reaching a facility can mean a long walk or a costly trip. For a lot of families, care depends more on community health workers and home-based visits than on a trip to a clinic.
We work within this system alongside the Ministry of Health and local government clinics, supporting the people already doing this work rather than replacing them. Like most government clinics in the region, the ones we partner with carry heavy patient loads with limited staff and resources, and our role is to add capacity where it’s needed most.
These relationships have been built over more than two decades of consistent, on-the-ground work. We partner directly with the Ministry of Health, local government clinics, and community leaders in Livingstone, and that history is what lets us place people where they’re actually needed, not simply where there’s room for them.
Our Medical Work
Clinic Support
We work alongside staff at local government clinics in Livingstone, where high patient volumes and limited resources put pressure on everyday care. These long-standing relationships are built on sustained support for the clinics and the people they serve.
The work spans patient intake, vital-sign checks, patient records, and pharmacy support, always within the routines and direction of local healthcare teams.
Home-Based Care
Not everyone can easily travel to a clinic. Our home-based care work supports local caregivers as they visit patients in their homes and keep care connected to the wider community.
Home visits focus on ongoing needs, including wound care, hygiene, chronic-illness support, and access to nutrition. We have formally tracked recovery outcomes for home-based care patients since 2024.
Community Health & Elderly Support
Beyond the clinics, our work includes preventive health and support for older community members. Blood pressure and other vital-sign checks sit alongside regular contact and companionship.
Community health education covers hygiene, nutrition, and disease prevention. This work brings practical health information into the places where people live and learn.
Community Development Work
Alongside our medical work, we run a set of ongoing community programs across Livingstone, in education, women’s empowerment, food security, and the environment.
Reading Club, Math Club, and Holiday Club give local students extra contact hours in the subjects that most affect whether they progress to secondary school, alongside teaching assistance in partner schools.
The Girl Impact program, women's groups, and menstrual hygiene workshops build confidence and opportunity for girls and women in the community. The Women's Group, a craft and village-tour business, gives members an independent source of income.
Eco Club, eco-bricking, litter picks, and the Kulakupa orchard project teach young people to care for the environment their community depends on, while cutting down on plastic waste and expanding local tree cover.
Livingstone, Zambia
Our Impact
Led by locals, supported by you. We’ve spent decades building trust in Livingstone.
Years in Zambia
Students Placed
Partner Clinics
Patients Annually
How We Measure Impact
Our team tracks work quarterly: course results, club attendance, and recovery outcomes
for home-based care patients. These figures come from the team’s monitoring data.
Clinical support, home-based care visits, first aid courses, HIV education, and school health clubs address health needs in the community. Course outcomes are measured with pre- and post-testing.
home-based care patients fully recovered and discharged in 2025
average score for community members completing our first aid courses
students taught through Health Club in 2025, with knowledge scores up 66%
Math Club, Reading Club, teaching assistance, and Holiday Club provide additional learning time in subjects that support progression to secondary school.
average reading-age improvement for Reading Club students at one school in a single yea
of volunteer teaching delivered in the first half of 2026 alone
average improvement in Math Club scores from pre-test to post-test
The Girl Impact program, women's groups, boys clubs, and menstrual hygiene workshops support knowledge, confidence, and local role models.
menstrual hygiene kits distributed to students in 2025
of last year’s tracked students progressed to the next grade
unwanted teenage pregnancy rate among tracked girls, down from ~20% in 2023
Financial literacy and the Women's Group support independent income.
earned on average by each woman in the Women’s Group across 2025, up from a few hundred kwacha a quarter in 2023
of last year’s tracked students progressed to the next grade
women now earning a monthly income from village tours
Eco Club, eco-bricking, litter picks, and reforestation help young people care for the environment their community depends on.
eco-bricks made, nearly 1.5 tonnes of plastic kept off the streets
fruit trees planted in 2025 through the Kulakupa orchard project
of plastic waste collected across 14 community litter picks in 2025
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