Charity Centre for Children and Youth Development
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Mission Statement
Mission Statement The Charity Centre for Children and Youth Development (CCCYD) was established in 2005 in Zambia’s Solwezi District as a community response to a multitude of health, educational, and social crises exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. CCCYD hopes to provide its community members – particularly women, children, and orphans – with the resources they need to succeed in order to promote sustainable development in the region. To do so, CCCYD offers educational opportunities, vocational training, financial literacy education, and community-building assistance to those who live in the Solwezi District. Vision Statement The Charity Centre for Children and Youth Development (CCCYD) hopes to expand significantly in the future in order to assist the greatest number of the vulnerable population in the Solwezi District as possible. Over the next five years, CCCYD will work to expand its funding in both the grant and crowdfunding sectors with the goal of using this funding to build more classrooms, hire more teachers, and offer more levels of education to students. Furthermore, CCCYD hopes to expand its skill development offerings and provide the chance for members of its community to gain certifications in skills like sewing, carpentry, and computer service. Lastly, CCCYD wants to increase its capacity to promote women’s empowerment and financial success in the region. CCCYD's Origin Story Alex Bwaluka, CCCYD Founder and Executive Director, was raised with a single mother who had him at the age of 15. Throughout his life, he continuously worked to support his own education with the goal on one day attaining a degree and helping children who were in the same position as him. At the age of 12, he created a small business selling livestock, walking eight days weekly from Kasempa, Zambia to the city of Kipushi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to sell his produce. Despite his circumstances, he was resolute on attaining an education. In 2018, he completed his Bachelor's Degree in Development Studies at the Zambian Open University and graduated in September of 2017. His dedication and passion for helping children who, like him, have grown up with disadvantaged circumstances, led him to establish CCCYD in 2005. Since then, his dedicated team has worked with hundreds of people in his community as well as internationally to send orphans and vulnerable children to school. Furthermore, he has expanded his organization to provide vocational training and micro entrepreneurship skills to local woman and youth. CCCYD has trained over 3,000 women and youths in agricultural and micro-business innovation, a project aimed at enhancing financial literacy education among women and the youths in the community. In 2017, CCCYD established the Fortune School of Excellence to provide pupils with primary education, virtual mentorship, and basic computer skills which now has over 450 students enrolled. CCCYD has also worked with the World Canada Foundation to offer post secondary education to vulnerable girls in Zambia. CCCYD successfully sent 21 young women to university on full-ride scholarships. Alex aims to continue advancing his lifelong passion and supporting the needs of the disadvantaged Zambian youth and young women. Through donations and volunteer assistance, he can continue improving hundreds of more lives and further CCCYD's impact.
About This Cause
Charity Centre for Children and Youth Development (CCCYD) is a Non-profit, Non-political and Nonreligious Organization Registered with the Registrar of NGOs under the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services in the Republic of Zambia. CCCYD is also approved as a public benefit organization under the Income Tax Act of the Laws of Zambia (Tax Identification Number, 1002013970). The main objective of the organization is to provide education, entrepreneurship and vocational skill to orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia. Since inception, CCCYD has supported over 2500 orphan and vulnerable children to gain access to quality primary education through its Fortune School of Excellence in Solwezi District of Zambia. We have supported over 500 youths, orphans and vulnerable with vocational skills training such as Tailoring, Knitting, basic computer skills in Solwezi District. In 2017, CCCYD partnered with German Sparkassenstiftung for International Cooperation (DSIK) to provide business Games (Micro and Farmers business simulation games) which aims at enhancing financial literacy education among small scale farmers and micro entrepreneurs in Northwestern province of Zambia. Since 2017, CCCYD had trained over 2000 farmers and micro entrepreneurs in 4 provinces namely: North-western, Copperbelt, Central and Lusaka provinces respectively. The organization is also providing post-secondary education scholarship targeting vulnerable girls. The girls are supported with 100% support which includes; Tuition fees, accommodation, monthly stipends and mentorship. So far, 21 vulnerable girls have been supported at various colleges and universities within Zambia. In 2023, we partnered with Global G.L.O.W to offer girls mentorship through glow clubs, so far 5 clubs with 105 girls have been established in Solwezi. The submitted project proposal -"Providing Access to Quality Education to 1000 Disadvantaged Children by Scaling-up of School Infrastructure in Solwezi, Zambia", will enable CCCYD to build four extra spacious multi-purpose classrooms in its Fortune School of Excellence located at Solwezi, Zambia and to scale-up the grades from 7th to 12th grade and enroll a total of 1000 orphan and vulnerable children. The newly build classrooms will also be used to provide vocational skill training to all students from 8th grade and also to around 500 unemployed youths both girls and boys from Solwezi and the the nearby Districts - Mushindamo, Kasempa, Kalumbila and Mufumbwe.