Projects
Many of the regions where we work still lack access to clean water, resulting in waterborne diseases and premature deaths. For many, especially young girls, daily life involves walking hours to collect water for cooking and cleaning, often at the expense of education.
Through the Jacob’s Well project, we’ve drilled over 33 boreholes, providing clean water access to more than 21,000 people who previously relied on unsafe sources.
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This provision has led to a significant reduction in waterborne diseases, improved school attendance, and increased crop production in communities with newly drilled boreholes.
In addition to wells, Life Support is implementing irrigation systems to enable these communities to farm more productively, increasing their income and helping to reduce the impact of poverty.
Our Eden Children’s Villages care for orphaned and vulnerable children in a family-like setting, where each child joins a household with up to six children under the loving guidance of a full-time house mother. This environment, centred on stability and nurture, helps children from difficult backgrounds feel cherished and valued.
Children in need are brought to our team by local social welfare, community chiefs, or other leaders, and are integrated into a family unit with a house mother who fosters long-term bonds with the children. Life Support is dedicated to this model, ensuring that each child:
• Experiences the stability of a family home;
• Develops a close, enduring relationship with a house mother committed to their well-being until adulthood;
• Grows in a safe, nurturing environment free from abuse and neglect.
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Many of our house mothers are widows or have raised their own families, feeling a strong calling to care for vulnerable children in this setting.
Our children’s villages are located at three sites: Eden Farm in Zambia, Nzenje Village in Malawi, and Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda. As of October 2024, we have ten children’s houses in operation, with ten more under construction, currently providing care for over 50 children across the villages. Each location has the potential to expand, responding to increasing needs within their communities.
Our vision is to grow to 50 children’s homes across these three sites, with the capacity to provide a safe, loving home for up to 300 children. We aim to help each child reach their fullest potential, offering support through higher education or vocational training as they grow. We have now had our first three children graduate from University and we are excited to see them leaving our care and establishing their lives.
Life Support believes deeply in the power of education to transform a child’s future. We fund two schools—one in Zambia and one in Uganda—and two nursery schools in Malawi and Rwanda. Each school also provides a nutritious meal, essential for children whose families often face food scarcity. Access to education has the potential to dramatically alter the lives of these children, creating lasting benefits that extend to their families as well.
Our schools foster a joyful, lively, and nurturing environment where children not only receive academic support but are encouraged to grow into compassionate and caring young people, striving to achieve their full potential.
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Eden School, Chingola, Zambia
Eden School serves children from subsistence farming families, some of the poorest households in Zambia. When registration opened in 2018, over 300 children applied for just 50 available places. Moved by this need, the school began with 100 students across three classes, and it has committed to expanding by one grade each year until reaching grade 12 in 2027, with an enrolment of around 550 students. Priority is given to orphaned and vulnerable children, and the school’s impact is already evident, with some students walking over two hours each way to attend classes.
Eden Nursery School, Nzenje, Malawi
Eden Nursery School provides early education to up to 50 children in Nzenje village. It offers a daily meal to the children, preparing them for primary school while allowing their mothers the time needed to tend to their fields, which helps families achieve greater food security.
Champions Academy, Nakivale, Uganda
Champions Academy serves children from refugee families who have often faced extreme violence and persecution before arriving in Nakivale Refugee Camp. The school, along with its daily feeding program, provides stability and hope. By 2027, the school aims to reach grade seven with an enrolment of approximately 600 students, expanding its impact on these resilient young learners.
Champions Academy Nursery, Rwanda
Located in a remote community where the nearest school is a 90-minute walk away, Champions Academy Nursery provides free education to children aged four to six. This nursery offers transformative support, creating access to early education and easing burdens on families in this under-resourced area.
The Kings Table project cares for the elderly, the vulnerable and the disabled.
This is done by helping with the provision of housing, food, education scholarships and practical care. There are many needs in the communities surrounding our bases of operations in Africa, which our Kings Table Teams assess by visiting those in need.
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The project began when Life Support became aware of a disabled girl who was being severely neglected by her family. Her disability was considered a curse on the family and so she was verbally and physically abused, often being left uncleaned and unfed. Life Support was able to rescue this young woman from a tragic situation and she now lives in one of the community homes with full time carers, ensuring her dignity and wellbeing.
Through King’s Table, Life Support has provided wheelchairs, cooking supplies, bedding, staple foods and school fees to those in need. We have also been able to act quickly to help in times of disaster including recent cyclones and feuds in Malawi.
Through King’s Table, Life Support also works to reduce the stigma around disability in the community and to help those in need to live hopeful and meaningful lives.
Founded in 2010, the Nurture project was set up to supports women living with HIV in the community near Eden Farm, Zambia.
Nurture runs the Mission of Hope Programme, designed for women who, due to widowhood or abandonment, struggle to provide for themselves and their families. This program offers practical skills training—such as knitting and tailoring—to empower these women with employable skills and foster independent living.
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Many women come to Nurture having lost hope, so the program also provides pastoral care. Each Nurture instructor also lives with HIV, having faced similar struggles. Their shared experiences create a unique environment where the women feel understood, supported, and encouraged to reclaim their futures.
Life Support helps these women find employment wherever possible. Some Nurture graduates have joined the Eden Farm team, contributing to the other projects supported by Life Support.
These women are an inspiration to all at Life Support, and witnessing their transformations is truly rewarding. To date, more than 80 women have completed the Nurture Program in Zambia.
Our vision is to expand Nurture to our other African locations, extending support to more widowed and vulnerable women affected by HIV, conflict, and abandonment, and helping them establish small businesses to build sustainable futures.
