Ebenezer Child Care Trust started out as a small feeding program for street kids in March 2001. Mrs. Ranji Chara and her family as well as Mrs. Kerstin Carlsson from Sweden pioneered it.

The project’s aim was initially to feed street kids a few times a week and share the gospel with them.

Calvary Church (PAOC) in Livingstone opened its premises to facilitate this project and initially “housed” some of the street kids who wanted to stay there.

Today Ebenezer rents four houses and an Office building. We provide accommodation to 50 orphans and street kids. Some staff namely the House parents live in these homes with the children and parent them.

We also run a primary school on the premises where qualified teachers educate the orphans in the project and a few from the community. The Office block houses the main office, the sick room and storerooms.

Project Director- A B Ranji Chara
Project Accountant- Jeevani Chara
Social Worker- Brian Mulenga
House Father- Agrippa Phiri
House Mother- Theresa Kayaya
House Mother- Emelia Phiri

Other members of staff include Teachers, Housekeepers, a Driver and Security guards.

A place to call home and someone to call Mother.

• To rehabilitate orphans/street kids and to help them become responsible citizens one day.
• To educate orphans in formal education and in vocations such as carpentry, agriculture etc.
• To make the project as self-sustaining as possible by growing our own vegetables, raising chickens and goats for meat and building homes to eliminate rental costs.
  

We have managed to rehabilitate three older children to the extent where they are now Independent. We have managed to find them jobs with the Sun International Group of hotels.
The eldest girl has just completed a Diploma in Education and is employed in our project to teach the other children.

Many lives have been changed by this project as many of these kids had no future and little chance of getting an education. Many kids are doing extremely well at both Primary and Secondary school levels.