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lip Flop Compassionate Zambia (FFCZ) is a nonprofit making organisation in Zambia; FFCZ is registered with the Registrar of Societies, under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It was registered on 14th December 2011. Our mission is poverty reduction, improve health, education, comfort and well-being of the disadvantaged Zambian children, and to provide skills training to Zambian youths and young mothers with the goal of empowering individuals towards selfsufficiency.
Our approach is to provide immediate Relief and intermediate care in the long term. To achieve this, outlined below, are activities under our practice: Provide basic necessities such as; footwear, clothing, food security for orphans and vulnerable children, school supplies and tuitions, health, sanitation, and sporting equipment. Support organizations that educate and enrich the community through dance, drama & team sportsmanship. Aid in the provision of vocational skills training for women and Youths so that they become self sustainable We believe social change can flourish when people are empowered by meeting their basic needs and affording them the opportunity to direct their own lives. As Flip Flop Compassionate Zambia, we are dedicated to improving the lives of Orphans and Vulnerable Children by providing necessities for living.
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Through extensive relationships with Zambian recipients and partner institutions, FFCZ is able to help realize the dreams of innovative Zambian social workers. We bridge the gap to help our recipients and partners achieve their goals of educating, housing, and caring for Zambian children, by providing in the form of; shoes, clothing, food, exercise books, text books, pens & pencils or other supplies. We aim to foster long-term change in Zambian communities by supporting already established Orphanages and Community Schools, Institutions which carry out health awareness programs and provide job skills training to Children and young adults. Many of the staff, Executive Committee (EC) members and volunteers of FFCZ have extensive experience in programs supporting orphans because they served as staff, EC members and/or volunteers of Flip Flop Foundation (FFF), a US-based public charity which ran similar programs in Zambia until the charity closed at the end of 2011. At that point, seeing a gap in the provision of basic necessities to the organizations that were previously supported by FFF, FFCZ was born to help fill the gap by taking on some of those programs.