By Leela Singaram Champ | Founder & Executive Director
When an epidemic comes unannounced, regardless of what is lying along its path, it razes anything and everything that crosses its path ! Thus was the result of the recent Cholera epidemic that hit Zambia. About 21 000 people were affected by the outbreak and over 700 died of the pandemic. As always the ones impacted severely are the less privileged living in shanty towns and impoverished areas where hygene and water related diseases is a daily struggle.
In George Compound, Matero township in the outskirts of the capital Lusaka, where our school is situated to serve these households living in extreme poverty, were severely impacted. Most adults living here are casual workers earning less than a dollar a day to feed their families. Some of our students either lost their parents or guardians to this epidemic or were themselves infected. A student of TOSF School for OVC is now the head of his family as he has lost his parents because of the epidemic.
Our emergency outreach intervention was limited to just 30 “poorest of the poor” families of our students, due to TOSF’s financial restraints as we are not an income generating school and have limited funds. A donor who wishes to remain anonymous donated to provide emergency rations.
Please see link below to read more about this increasingly onerous situation we are in. Your support dear donors is especially needed during such demanding times.
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