Life Support was founded in 2006 after a visit to Eden Farm in Chingola, in Zambia’s Copperbelt region. Deeply moved by the widespread poverty and desperate conditions witnessed there, our team committed to addressing some of these urgent needs, and Life Support was formed, aptly named to signify our mission to provide essential support to those in crisis.

In researching needs across Africa, we were especially impacted by the HIV epidemic’s devastating effects, which had left countless children orphaned and vulnerable. We focused on aiding these children, providing education, food distribution, and, where needed, direct care for orphans and vulnerable children.

In January 2008, Eden Farm was donated to Life Support. Once a thriving farm, it had since been abandoned and lay in disrepair. With the guidance of our partners in Chingola, we set a vision to build a children’s village there to care for orphaned and vulnerable children. Over time, our work expanded to include three additional projects:

• Nurture: caring for and educating women living with HIV.
• King’s Table: supporting the elderly, abandoned, and disabled within the community.
• Eden School: providing education and a daily meal to its students.

In 2019, Life Support took a bold step to establish a second base in Malawi’s Phalombe region, where we launched our second children’s village and introduced another project:

• Jacob’s Well: a project bringing clean drinking water to local communities through borehole drilling.

In 2021, Life Support expanded into Rwanda to assist child-headed families, and into Uganda, where we began working in Nakivale refugee camp. In Uganda, we support Champions Academy, Angi’s Kitchen feeding program, and operate our third children’s village.

In 2024, Life Support launched its first project outside Africa, in Barcelona, Venezuela. This initiative, Vida Kitchen, provides food for vulnerable children living in severely impoverished areas.

Life Support is registered as a charity in the UK, and all of our work is run through registered organisations in there respective countries, Eden Farm Children’s Village in Zambia. Life Community Ministries in Malawi and Bethel Active Youth Ministry in Rwanda and Uganda.