Zambia Mission Fund
Revealing Jesus Through Education, Humanitarian Service, and Christian Leadership
The Haven’s Milk Program Helps Babies Survive and Thrive
Heartbreak, sorrow, confusion. Grieving family members experience all of these emotions when
a mother dies in childbirth.
For families in rural areas of Zambia, the feelings of heartbreak and confusion are made even
greater by the need to find care for the surviving infant. Often an aunt, grandmother, sister or
the baby’s father is willing to take on the responsibility—but there is no food for the baby.
In remote rural areas, infant formula is difficult to find and too expensive for most families to
afford.
The Haven’s Milk Program at Namwianga Mission is designed to help these babies survive and
thrive. Every month a caregiver brings the infant to the Haven to receive a month’s supply of
formula. Haven staff members are available to check the baby and see if medical or nutritional
interventions are needed.
Monthly visits continue until the baby is ready for solid food. Currently 65 babies are enrolled in
the Milk Program.
Some families have no one who can take on the responsibility of caring for the baby, or they
have no source for clean water to use for preparing formula. These babies are welcomed in the
Haven’s residential care home. Loving aunties provide loving day-to-day care. Haven babies also
depend on formula from the Milk Program.
The cost for infant formula for one baby is $15 per month. Your support can help every baby in
the Milk Program survive and thrive.
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