Bakashana
PO BOX 410356; 695 Lunzuwa Road
Kasama
Zambia
Contact person: Mrs. Claire Albrecht
+260976079668; +1(303)525-1530
info@bakashana.org
claire@bakashana.org
https://bakashana.org/
https://www.facebook.com/bakashana
Topics
- Educational policy/project
- Women's policy
- Social policy/disabled persons
- Volunteers are welcome.
About us
Bakashana is a non-profit organization located at 695 Lunzuwa Road in Kasama, Northern Province, Zambia. This organization focuses on empowering Zambian women and girls by providing essential services such as education, livelihood training, health services, leadership mentoring, and cultural exchange. Through a strength-based approach, Bakashana combines ancestral wisdom with modern resources to inspire future leaders.
Through heart-centered, female-and-youth-led solutions we holistically uplift our community with education, health, livelihood, and social services- promoting hope and agency to amplify the voices which will lead us into a more just and equitable future.
Bakashana is a Bemba word that refers to a young woman. With different emphasis, it also can mean “the dancer.” Our program is dedicated to working with young women from rural areas as they discover the joy of their work, community and life.
Our Mission
Through heart-centered, female-and-youth-led solutions we holistically uplift our community with education, health, livelihood, and social services- promoting hope and agency to amplify the voices which will lead us into a more just and equitable future.
Our Vision
Youth living as progressive, self-confident and socially involved leaders of a changing and more equitable world.
Our Programs
• Education: Bakashana supports our community in a myriad of ways. We support more than 250 secondary pupils and 50 tertiary pupils with school sponsorship. Part of this sponsorship includes workshops offering confidence and self-assertiveness trainings. From our resource center we offer free computer, literacy, and English classes. We also provide outreach focusing on life skills to more than 500 youth annually through our youth clubs.
• Health: Since 2015, Bakashana has been proudly providing free health services for the Kasama community. These services, provided with help from our grantors, donors, and project partners, include: Family Planning Services, HIV/AIDs prevention, counselling, testing and treatment, Under Five Services, Referral
• Disabled Services: Bakashana is proud to share our Place of Happiness, serving 50 severely disabled children and their mothers by providing one day of full care, bi-weekly, for each family (10 children per day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays). The program is held in a comfortable home setting with a 1:2 care provider/child ratio. The program provides socialization, learning activities, and movement therapy to children, respite care for mothers, advocacy services, and opportunities for building a community of support among the primary caretakers of these children. The program will be a place where all children are accepted and loved – a place where all mothers are valued, supported, and celebrated.
• Preventing violence against women and girls: Bakashana is preventing violence against women and girls by leading the response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Northern Province. At a time of acute funding gaps, we are: providing survivor-centered counselling; safe housing; economic and academic support; and coordinated legal advocacy to ensure perpetrators are held accountable. Through our Bridges to Justice initiative in partnership with Lawyers Without Borders, we aim to uplift approximately 220 survivors with holistic services. These services include staffing the Provincial Hospital’s One Stop Center with a Licensed Survivor-Support Counsellor and employing a Paralegal Officer to guide survivors through hospital, police, and judicial systems. Furthermore, we are strengthening legal expertise and institutional capacity to improve prosecution and survivor outcomes. As the only organization currently funding SGBV response in the Province, Bakashana ensures that women and girls are not left without protection, accompaniment, and access to justice during a critical period for survivor support in our region.
• Youth outreach: Bakashana’s youth outreach empowers adolescents to become confident, socially engaged leaders through holistic, peer-led programming. Currently, through our Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) and Boys For Change (BFC) clubs and our Youth Leadership Program, we train and empower more than 3,500 youth annually.
Claire Albrecht is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of Bakashana.
For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.