 The Ebenezer Child Care Trust is located in Livingstone, Zambia. ECCT's mission is to care for children who have lost one or both of their parents. Unfortunately this situation is very common in Zambia, due to HIV/AIDS, malaria and many other diseases. Life expectancy at birth is only 40 years (less that half that in Australia).ECCT believes that these orphaned children deserve to have a home, food, medical treatment and an education, so that they can grow up to contribute to their country's future development.
Starting as a feeding programme for street children in 2001, ECCT now looks after 30 orphans in three houses and educates 280 children in its primary school.
 Each Ebenezer home houses about 10 orphans and has a house-mother, or house-father, to care for the children. Although this is expensive, ECCT believes that the children should have as near as possible a normal home situation and not become institutionalised. ECCT is the legal guardian of all the orphans in its care and is fully accredited with the government as an orphanage.
Ebenezer's primary school is staffed by a dedicated team of Zambian teachers and is registered with the Zambian Government to follow the state curriculum. Recently the school has been designated as an examination centre by the government.
Each child at the school receives free medical treatment and a meal of vitamin enriched maize porridge each day. A trained counsellor looks after the emoional needs of the orphans and school children.
  If you would like to see more about some of the Ebenezer orphans follow these links:
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