Overcome Hardship

Our mission is to empower communities in Zambia to enhance health, protect and nurture girls, end hunger, and overcome hardship.  

PCZ is dedicated to assisting Zambia’s most vulnerable communities in becoming more resilient to various challenges, including food and economic insecurity, floods, droughts, and emerging pandemics. When disasters strike, PCZ provides support to help people rebuild their lives.

Our Program Impact

In partnership with Global Communities, supported caregivers of vulnerable children and adolescents to form and successfully manage 561 market-linked Women Empowered (WE) Savings Groups built upon a WE methodology that promotes gender equality and focuses on household economic strengthening and women caregivers inclusiveness in household decision making, through Financial inclusion.

561

Market-linked Women Empowered (WE) Savings Groups mobilized & trained.

$714,000

ZMW14,315,458 estimated dollar equivalent in 2023) in
savings

31

groups
linked to
seed grants

1,315

Partnered with FNB Zambia and trained 91 WE Savings Groups comprising 1,315 members in Financial literacy

Programs