Forgotten Voices International is demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ by equipping local churches in southern Africa to meet the physical & spiritual needs of AIDS orphans. 

We currently have projects around Zimbabwe and Zambia.  Please take a few moments and check out our projects. 

Click on the individual project name to learn more.  Check back regularly as we add additional features, such as photos and news updates from each project. 

• BICC Compassionate Ministries Orphan Care (Zambia)

• Local Action Plan Start Date: April 2008
• Target Goal: Send 125 orphans back to primary school; 25 back to secondary school; provide milk supliments to women with HIV that are giving birth so as to reduce the mother to child transfer threat
• Other African Partners: Brethren in Christ World Missions, Mennonite Central Committee, Hefer

• Christian Leadership Resource Centre (Zimbabwe)
  
  
• Local Action Plan Start Date: May 2007
  
• Target Goal: Train 800 pastors in Project Management
  
• Other African Partners: Theological College of Zimbabwe, Habakkuk Trust, Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, others
  
  
•  Theological College of Zimbabwe (TCZ) (Zimbabwe)*  
  
  
• Local Action Plan Start Date: Fall 2007
  
• Target Goal: Provide theological and community development to 5 students within next 12 months; Start Alumni Fund to assist 10 church run projects in next 24 months; Enhance existing community development programme to help train 100 pastors in the community by 2008
  
• Other African Partners: Christian Leadership Resource Centre, Habakkuk Trust, BICC Zimbabwe, Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe
  
  
•  Free Methodist Church – Magwegwe North (Zimbabwe) 
  
  
• Local Action Plan Start Date: July 2005
  
• Target Goal: Send 67 orphans to school, feed caretakers, provide counseling to grieving children and their extended families
  
• Other African Partners: TCZ, Ebenezer Baptist Church
  
  
•  The Rock, Johannesburg Road (Zimbabwe) 
  
  
• Local Action Plan Start Date: May 2007
  
• Target Goal: Assist 25 orphans or vulnerable children with school fees; provide skills training for caretakers of orphans
  
• Other African Partners: Christian Leadership Resource Centre, BP Gas Station, TCZ (in time)
  
  
•  Farming God’s Way (Zimbabwe)*       
  
  
• Local Action Plan Start Date: May 2007
  
• Target Goal: Plant 100 training farms in October as the planting season begins, providing a nice foundation for thousands of farms to be planted by these local trainers.  Future plans involve setting up training sites around Zimbabwe through this partnership.
  
• Other African Partners: YoungLife, multiple church networks, several primary schools in the Matopos & Mtshabezi areas

• BICC National AIDS Programme (Zimbabwe)* 
  
  
• Local Action Plan Start Date: April 2005
  
• Target Goal: Assist 3,500 people each year through direct or indirect AIDS relief; Send 2,000 children to school by end of 2007, train 750 homebased care workers in AIDS relief, provide homebased health care kits for over 300 people
  
• Other African Partners: Mtshabezi Mission Hospital, Mennonite Central Committee, Farming God’s Way
  

* Projects are national or have a national impact.

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