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Women honoring the past, embracing the present, and leading the future. www.bakashana.org

17/10/2025

Our Bemba Debate Finals are on! Join us live as debaters from Ntumpa, Chilekwamwamba, Musa, and St. John's debate on engaging gender, SRHR, and political topics. Rural pupils speak their minds from the bottom of their hearts thanks to AmplifyChange

16/10/2025

"If you wanna be somebody, if you wanna go somewhere, you better wake up and pay attention!" We consider this our programme's theme song. Youth we work with face so much adversity and really need to be proactive to acheive their dreams. Through our life skills programmes, education and health services, and livelihood training we empower them to wake up all the potential they have inside themselves, pay attention to the ways that they can live a life of choice through skills development and self awareness, and then support them to go somewhere!

13/10/2025

Through a Strengthening Grant with Amplify Change, Bakashana in Kasama, Zambia has gone from reaching 750 secondary students bi-weekly through in 15 school and clinic clubs to reaching 2,370 students in 31 clubs. Through this support we have been empowered to pilot an in-depth SRHR curriculum as a second-year offering to our longstanding Life Skills Curriculum. Our patient roll-out of SRHR intensive in 6 schools has created demad from the Ministry of Education that we offer the SRHR curriculum in all 31 clubs in 2026! We are so honored to reach youth in our community through meaningful bi-weekly engagement. Thanks to AmplifyChange for the platform to do so.

10/10/2025

Removing Barriers to Learning!
This proud Mama from our Literacy class has not let her young child's dependency on her stop her from achieving her goal to become literate. Just one month from completing our free literacy course, she is well on her way to "breaking through" to literacy. At Bakashana we promote an inclusive learning environment which empowers mothers to bring their children to class. If she has such determination to advance her knowledge, who are we to get in her way?

03/10/2025

Guiding Stimulating Play Behavior for Children with Disabilities

Yesterday we met with Caregivers from The Place of Happiness, our Daycare for children with severe physical disabilities. These Caring Women were led through sessions on Physiotherapy and the Importance of Stimulating Play Behavior. Our caregivers here model how even a child who is nonverbal and unable to use their arms and legs can still further their emotional, cognitive, and social progress through guided play.

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26/09/2025

World Contraceptive Day
For our team working with Girls Leading Our World and Boys For Change, conversations around contraception come after members have built a solid understanding of key life skills as shown during our recent session on "Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships" This very eloquent and confident GLOW girl at Kasama Girls helped fuel a very dynamic conversation about respect, trust, and how love is different than infatuation.

23/09/2025

A future secured!
Our latest batch of Skills Students is off to College thanks to Solon Foundation, making them our 11th new grantees this year. This level of gratitude, hope, and anticipation comes straight from the heart. Good luck to each of you as you pursue your careers in Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering.
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22/09/2025

Today's bush is tomorrow's forest 'Imiti ikula impanga'
Youth are our primary focus, our key stakeholders.
Our every interaction with them gives us hope that they may use the opportunities, skills, and knowledge shared with them in order to pave way for a brighter future for all of us.

16/09/2025

In the last week 5 r**e cases of a child under the age of 15 have been reported in Kasama District alone. An average of 7 every month. For each Survivor this amounts to a life ripped apart, an innocence lost.

Since the withdrawal of USAID, all funding for Sexual Violence follow-up in the Province has dried up. To respond to this emergency crisis, Bakashana has stepped in to empower the team at the One-Stop Centre- providing transport, financial support, and anything we can to help ensure Survivors get the care they need and that Perpetrators are brought to justice.
We encourage the community to continue making noise and standing up as we did together during our March in May. Our children are not safe and more needs to be done about it, urgently.

15/09/2025

Our Youth Coaches make our work go round!
From hundreds of applicants over the last five years we have had the pleasure of forming an amazing group of 30 Youth "Coaches" who lead our Outreach in schools facilitating three curriculum: Life Skills, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Financial Literacy. These dynamic Young Leaders bring energy, enthusiasm, experience, and knowledge into the classroom and share it actively with our more than 2,300 club members through 29 clubs in two districts. A big shout-out and thanks to each of you, Coaches, for the important work you do! We look forward to continuing to grow together. Tag yourselves and your fellow coaches here.

09/09/2025

As we welcome another term and bid farewell to our children as they return to school, our enthusiasm grows with each passing year. Each term presents an opportunity for us to connect with every child, ensuring their well-being and equipping them with a renewed sense of purpose through our extracurricular activities. This cherished moment serves as an important reminder of the profound impact of selfless service, inspiring us to nurture young minds and foster a culture of care and empowerment. Through these thoughtful gestures, we reinforce our commitment to their growth, illuminating pathways to a brighter future.

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695 Lunzuwa Road
Kasama

Telephone

+(260) 976090066

Website

http://www.bakashana.org/donate

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Women honoring the past, embracing the present, and leading the future

At Bakashana, we serve to provide the young women of Kasama with a life of their choice. We do this through scholarship, peer support networks, life skills trainings, elder support networks, and entrepreneurship and livelihood trainings. www.bakashana.org