Zambia

Eunice Chishimba

Zambia Regional Youth Caucus Representative

Eunice currently works as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Her specific project of designation in CRS is called SUCCESS (Scaling Up Community Care to Enhance Social Safety-nets). This is in the area of mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS through an adequately informed and technically strengthened community response.

Her work caters for both youth and Children at risk of HIV/AIDS on one hand and Youth and Children infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. She runs activities which provide palliative care for AIDS orphans, other vulnerable children and youths at risk to learn more about the pandemic, gain life-skills, gain confidence and have a means to improve their prospectus for the future.

Through the program she ensures that care for HIV/AIDS sufferers specifically the youths are strengthened and taught on how to care for themselves.

She oversees the overall M&E process of Data Entry of the Project Activities and providing M&E support to implementing Partners as well as analyze monthly statistics, narrative information and provide regular feedback to partnering institutions as well as generation of statistical data in relation to Semi Annual and Annual Performance Reporting requirements for the Project to USAID.

Eunice is also a board member for a youth NGO called Rescue Mission Zambia. It’s a Youth-Initiated, Youth-Led organization which was started in 1998 for the benefit of the children and young people and works to empower children and youth to participate in affairs of their societies.

She has carried out projects with youths in various fields including Education, Environment, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS. Of late her activities are predominately HIV/AIDS in the youth sector.

Having worked with the youths for sometime she has come to believe that youths can be developed to better tools for the development of a nation and the world at large. This can be done if they are given life skills which will help them realize their potential thus being self dependant and generate their own income.

“Life skills with financial problems can not be developmental to youths, I believe that if accorded with financial sources youths will create businesses as a way of self employment, sustain themselves have a better standard of living and contribute positively to national development”