Dr. Jackie Clark (left) and her students — Jennifer Frank (third from right), Joan Oexmann (fourth from right) and Annie Cardella (middle of front row) — worked with Dr. Alfred Mwamba (black-and-red jacket), an audiologist in Zambia, to provide screening tests and train local clinicians

Last summer, four volunteers from the Callier Center for Communications Disorders visited Zambia in a humanitarian venture that doubled as a training trip. Dr. Jackie Clark, clinical...
Japanese Model Kurara Chibana

Model Kurara Chibana said she felt devastated when she saw children dying of hunger in Zambia, Tanzania and other impoverished countries. To help tackle the...
From left to right: Assnaku Hassen, Ethiopia; Patricia Dianon, Ghana; Marian Munyinda, Zambia – at Coady International Institute

Marian Munyinda smiles as she talks about growing up in the copper belt of northern Zambia. But there’s one tradition she’s working to turn...

A steel cargo container left Nipomo last week to start a three-month journey to a village in one of the poorest areas of Zambia,...
Veronica McCallum

By the time borough resident Veronica McCallum entered her mid-teens, she had endured physical abuse as a young child in foster homes and dropped...
Safe Motherhood Action Group

Newborn mortality rates in Zambia have been cut thanks to motherhood action groups Doris Kangolo is just days away from giving birth.  She looks tired and...

GOVERNMENT says it is considering funding the Save Our Souls children’s village to enable it continue supporting orphans and other vulnerable children. Meanwhile, Government has...
Cody Mitchell Heche

Cody Mitchell Heche, 23, of Cary, Ill., has been accepted into the Peace Corps and will depart for Zambia Feb. 3 to begin training...
A group of Norfolk Christians will be taking part in a sponsored parachute jump to help children in Zambia, and they are inviting others to join in

70,000 Children inZambia have run away from home due to poverty, violence and sexual mistreatment. Yet on 'the streets' they are subject to even worse...