AAH Zambia started operations in October 2001 on the request of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to take over the running of a refugee care and maintenance programme in Kala Camp, Kawambwa District in Luapula Province. In January 2009, AAH Zambia took up the operations of Mwange Camp in Mporokoso District in Zambia’s Northern Province.
Operations in Kala and Mwange refugee camps officially closed in 2010 following a successful 3-year repatriation of the refugees back to DRC and re-settlement of a few at Meheba Settlement. The infrastructure of the two camps was handed over to the government of Zambia. The programme assisted 45,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who fled the country at the height of civil war in the late 1990s. Zambian nationals residing around the camps also benefited from services provided by the camp. The programme has provided health, nutrition, water and sanitation services to about 40,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) AAH has also been working nationals residing around the camps who have also benefited from programme.
Currently AAH Zambia is implementing the following projects:
Zambia Urban Refugee Project
A new intervention focusing on 4,782 urban refugees has been launched in which AAH will provide them with lodging, food and local transport for the medical referral cases from the camps/settlements, requiring specialized treatment not available in the district and/or provincial hospitals.
Enhancing safe motherhood services in rural communities in Kawambwa District, Zambia
This project is replicating AAH Zambia’s successes in reduction of maternal mortality in poor communities in rural Zambia and to document disseminate and use the evidence generated to influence policy at all levels. The action is being implemented in Mushota, Mufwaya and Munkanta wards of Kawambwa district in Luapula province in northern Zambia.
Operations in Kala and Mwange refugee camps officially closed in 2010 following a successful 3-year repatriation of the refugees back to DRC and re-settlement of a few at Meheba Settlement. The infrastructure of the two camps was handed over to the government of Zambia. The programme assisted 45,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who fled the country at the height of civil war in the late 1990s. Zambian nationals residing around the camps also benefited from services provided by the camp. The programme has provided health, nutrition, water and sanitation services to about 40,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) AAH has also been working nationals residing around the camps who have also benefited from programme.
Currently AAH Zambia is implementing the following projects:
Zambia Urban Refugee Project
A new intervention focusing on 4,782 urban refugees has been launched in which AAH will provide them with lodging, food and local transport for the medical referral cases from the camps/settlements, requiring specialized treatment not available in the district and/or provincial hospitals.
Enhancing safe motherhood services in rural communities in Kawambwa District, Zambia
This project is replicating AAH Zambia’s successes in reduction of maternal mortality in poor communities in rural Zambia and to document disseminate and use the evidence generated to influence policy at all levels. The action is being implemented in Mushota, Mufwaya and Munkanta wards of Kawambwa district in Luapula province in northern Zambia.
