Thereza Kafula
Thereza Kafula is a 70 year old widow of Chazanga Township in Lusaka. Years back, Thereza was happily married and was blessed with eight daughters. The family managed to buy a small piece of land in Chazanga township of Lusaka. However, the plot remained undeveloped and when Thereza’s husband died in the early 1980’s, life for Thereza became a nightmare.

Mary Chimfwembe
Mary Chimfwembe is a 39 year old widow of Independence Township. Her husband passed away four years ago and left her with five children, three males and two females. Three of them go to school with the support of the Family Strengthening Program run by SOS Village, while the other two are still too young to attend school. She also lives with her elder sister’s daughter (aged 21) and her two children aged four and one respectively.

Benson Chisanga
Benson is a 19 year old boy in 7th grade and has two siblings, Enoch Chisanga (17 years, also in 7th grade) and Kulekani (11 years old doing his 2nd grade). Both parents of these children died in December 2001. One of their brothers also passed away in the same year. For the next five years that followed after their parent's death, their grandmother lived with them, but later on left them to fend for themselves.

Evans Simbule
Evans Simbule was born in 1945 and married Felidah Nakamba Simbule in 1958. The couple was blessed with five children – two girls and three boys. Over the years, the Simbules lost three children (one female and two males) leaving behind only the two surviving children. The deceased children left behind orphans that were cared for by the Simbules and other relatives that were able to provide for the orphans. The Simbules took in Mwaka Nambule (a girl of 13 in her 6th grade) and Memory Nambule (a girl aged nine in her 3rd grade).

Agness Mwape
Agnes Mwape is a 65 year old widow of Kawama Township. She had three children, but lost a daughter a few years ago. Her late daughter had two sons who soon after her death were abandoned by their father. Agnes had no choice but to take them into her humble home.