Support for Poverty Reduction in Zambia
SPRIZ supports various categories of vulnerable people including children in child labour, rural girls, rural women, people living with disabilities or HIV and AIDS, and Orphans and Vulnerable Children.
Our Mission
To empower communities with skills and frontline services that foster the reduction of poverty within their communities through advocacy, capacity building and service delivery.
Our Vision
“SPRIZ envisages a poverty free Zambia where all children are enjoying their rights and have access to quality basic services”. The organisation focusses on the improved provision of community based services
What we do
The organisation focusses on the improved provision of community based services in the five sectors namely Education, Health, Agriculture, Microcredit, Child Protection as well as Water and Sanitation.
What we have been doing
Our goal is to better Lives of the Poor
SPRIZ has 10 years of experience in implementing highly innovative poverty reduction projects in Eastern, Southern, Western and Lusaka Provinces. Current projects focus on the use of ILO strategies in the fight against child labor, supporting microcredit and savings groups, providing functional literacy and promoting access to education from early childhood education to secondary education and skills development.
What we have Achieved So Far
Some of the achievements we have made include having;
- Withdrawn and integrated 20, 127 child labourers (10,716 females and 9,411 males) and placed them in the local schools and skills training centers.
- Influenced the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) to adopt the current Zambia National Action Plan for the Elimination of worst forms of Child Labor 2020-2025
- Strengthened a multi-sectoral approach to the fight against child labour in Eastern, Western and Southern Provinces through establishing and supporting operations of District Child labour Committees under the MLSS and District Education Platforms under the Ministry of Education.
- Improved education indicators on school enrolments, attendance, retention and performance among children in targeted schools in Eastern, Western and Southern Province.
- Supported 2,516 women with training in business management and microcredit and achieved high small loans repayment and business success rates.
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Phone Number
+260 211 223 326+260 977 460 095
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Design House Cairo Road P. O. Box 310104 Lusaka Zambia
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