Feeding · Clothing · Prayer · Counseling · Women's Support
"Compassion in Action. Hope in Motion."
On the streets of our cities live people who have been overlooked, excluded and forgotten — men, women and children whose circumstances do not define their worth. We go to them. We see them. We serve them. Because no one is beyond help, and no one should be forgotten.
The people we meet on the streets face complex, overlapping challenges — poverty, unemployment, family breakdown, addiction, mental illness, abuse and loss. Behind every circumstance is a human being with a name, a history and a hope that has too often been buried by survival.
Our response begins simply: we meet people where they are. Not with judgement. Not with conditions. With a hot meal, clean clothing, a listening ear, a prayer, and a pathway forward.
We look past the circumstance and recognise the person — their dignity, their story, their potential.
We respond to immediate needs first — food, clothing, hygiene, safety — because survival comes before everything.
We walk with each person toward counselling, skills, family, work and home — until independence is real.
We raise national awareness so that homelessness is met with compassion and solutions, not stigma and indifference.
The Homeless Support & Street Rehabilitation Programme is the frontline expression of the Remember Me Project — WATWZ's national commitment to restoring dignity, rebuilding lives and renewing hope for people living on the streets. Street outreach is where the journey begins; the Remember Me pathway carries it all the way home.
Every outreach is built on five commitments — meeting urgent needs today while opening the door to restoration tomorrow.
Hunger is the most immediate crisis on the street. Our teams prepare and serve hot, nutritious meals at outreach points — often the first reliable food a person receives that day.
Clean, well-fitting clothing restores more than warmth — it restores self-respect. We distribute donated and purchased clothing, shoes and blankets directly to those who need them most.
For women and girls on the street, managing basic hygiene is a daily struggle carried out with little privacy and less support. We provide essentials that protect health and dignity.
Material aid feeds the body; hope feeds the soul. Our teams offer prayer, encouragement and motivational teaching to everyone who wants it — always by invitation, never by condition.
Lasting change requires more than relief — it requires healing. Through trained counsellors and trusted partners, we walk with individuals from crisis toward stability and recovery.
No queues turned away. No questions demanded. Just care, delivered consistently.
JOIN AN OUTREACHWomen make up a growing share of those living on the street — many of them young mothers fleeing abuse, widowhood, abandonment or economic collapse. Their vulnerability is unique, and so must our response be.
Our women's support stream provides gender-specific care within every outreach: hygiene and menstrual health supplies, safe spaces to talk, dedicated female volunteers and counsellors, and priority pathways into shelter, skills training and family reunification.
A woman on the street is not a statistic. She is a mother doing everything she can, a daughter who deserves protection, a human being whose circumstances should never cost her dignity. We show up for her — month after month — until her story changes.
Street-connected children are among the most vulnerable people in Zambia. They deserve childhood — school, play, safety and love. Wherever we find children during outreach, their needs move to the front of the line.
We connect street-connected children with schooling support, learning materials and partners who specialise in returning children to the classroom.
Meals, play, mentorship and moments of joy — because a child on the street is still a child, and childhood is worth protecting.
Through child-protection partners we pursue trace-and-reunify work, placing children with family or safe care wherever it is possible and safe.
Meet urgent needs — food, clothing, hygiene and first-line care — for people living on the streets.
Provide counselling, addiction-referral and life-skills support that moves people from crisis to stability.
Trace and reunite willing families, rebuilding the relationships that make independence sustainable.
Connect individuals to housing, employment and community so that leaving the street is permanent.
Shift the national conversation from stigma to solidarity through visible, compassionate action.
These are programme targets — the scale we are committed to reaching as funding and partnerships grow. Every figure represents a person seen, served and remembered.
Pilot operations centred in Lusaka — regular street outreaches delivering meals, clothing, hygiene support, prayer and counselling while building the assessment and referral systems for scale.
Expansion across 160 districts nationwide — taking the full outreach-to-reintegration pathway from the capital to every province, in partnership with local leaders and communities.
Figures shown are Programme Targets, not audited results. Progress updates will be published as rollout advances.
A meal opens the door. A relationship walks through it. Here is the journey every person is invited into.
The Homeless Support & Street Rehabilitation Programme was born on the pavements of Cairo Road. On a single July morning, WATWZ volunteers set up tables, cooked through the night, and served hot meals to hundreds of people who are usually walked past.
Freshly cooked and distributed to people living and working on the streets of Cairo Road — many receiving their only proper meal that day.
Beyond the food, volunteers sat, listened, prayed and talked — beginning the relationships that would shape the programme's person-centred approach.
The overwhelming need witnessed that day confirmed the vision: this would not be a one-off event, but a sustained programme of monthly outreach and structured rehabilitation.
First official outreach — Cairo Road, Lusaka
July 2025 · The day a programme was bornOutreach runs on people. Cooks, drivers, counsellors, nurses, hairdressers, pray-ers, listeners, organisers — there is a role for every skill and every schedule.
Cook, pack and serve meals at monthly outreach points.
Sort, pack and distribute donated clothing and blankets.
Qualified counsellors and social workers join our response teams.
Help move food, supplies and teams where they're needed.
Offer prayer and encouragement to those who welcome it.
Teach practical skills that open doors to livelihoods.
Volunteers receive orientation before their first outreach, work alongside experienced team leads, and become part of a community that shows up — month after month — for the people everyone else walks past.
Whether you give money, goods, time or voice — every contribution puts compassion into motion.
Fund hot meals, hygiene kits, blankets and counselling sessions. Even K1 a day keeps someone fed and remembered.
GIVE NOW →Clothing, shoes, blankets, soap, sanitary pads and non-perishable food — gently used or newly bought, all of it matters.
COORDINATE A DONATION →Join an outreach team and serve meals, offer counsel or lend your professional skills on the street.
VOLUNTEER & JOIN OUTREACHBusinesses, churches, schools and institutions can sponsor outreaches, supply goods in bulk or co-fund the national rollout.
EXPLORE PARTNERSHIP →These convictions govern every decision we make — on the street and behind the scenes.
We believe every human being — regardless of circumstance, addiction or history — carries inherent, unshakeable dignity. Our service reflects that belief in every interaction.
The most vulnerable among us are not someone else's problem. They are our neighbours, and their need is our invitation to act.
No child should grow up on the street. Wherever children are found, their protection, education and future lead our priorities.
Women and girls on the street face dangers and needs that demand a dedicated, sensitive and sustained response — and they will always receive one from us.
We have never met a person beyond hope. With patience, consistency and love, lives can be rebuilt — and we commit to walking the whole journey, not just the first mile.
Somewhere on a street tonight, someone is cold, hungry and convinced they've been forgotten. Prove them wrong. Join the movement that shows up — with food, with clothing, with prayer, with a plan — until every person is home.
