Zambia, formerly a British colony of Northern Rhodesia until it won its independence in 1964, faces overwhelming challenges. The country’s economy, dependent on the export of copper, has stagnated for decades while the population has tripled in the years since independence. Almost two-thirds of Zambia’s people, 63.7 percent, live on less than a dollar a day. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has ravaged Zambians: one in five people in the most economically productive age groups is infected. By 2010 an estimated 23 percent of all Zambian children under the age of fifteen will be orphans, mostly because of AIDS.
For several years St. Michael’s has provided assistance to Father Kaunda and his mainly low-income and unemployed parishioners and their community. Their needs are many: day-to-day maintenance of their church, pews (benches without backs), even revolving funds for a sustainable credit system so that St. Peter’s parishioners can afford a decent burial for their loved ones.
Mission Trip 2010
St. Michael’s parishioner Mai Orloff visited St. Peter’s on a missionary trip in July 2010. She filmed this video message from Fr. William, Priest-in-charge at St. Peter’s Anglican Church: 20100706_StPeters_MaiOrloff_missiontrip
Click here to see a photo presentation of Mai’s visit to St. Peters.
