# Friends of Chitambo SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC044337
- **Status:** Not Submitted
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Oct. 17, 2013
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC044337


## Contact

- **Address:** 15 West Street, Penicuik, Midlothian
- **Postcode:** EH26 9DG



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the saving of lives&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Friends of Chitambo SCIO works with local health partners to support health projects in Chitambo District, Central Province, Zambia.  Projects include: -Ambulance maintenance -Nurse training scholarships -Staff development scholarships -Maternal and child health care improvements including building a Mothers Waiting Shelter for expectant mothers, at the hospital and renovating and equipping the maternity unit -Partnering with NHS Lanakshire on a hospital Twinning arrangement -Collaborating on a Scottish Government funded project to improve management of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

**Objectives:** Contribute to prevention and relief of poverty through actively engaging in fundraising, mainly in support of the Chitambo School of Nursing and Hospital, through for example, provision of nurse training scholarships for particularly disadvantaged students, and improved accommodation and subsistence for hospital patients relatives, but also in support of other institutions (church, schools, orphanage, local businesses etc.), as possible Contribute to the advancement of education through supporting the Chitambo School of Nursing with equipment (books, teaching aids etc) and sponsorship of some basic and advanced nurse training  Contribute to the advancement of health, in the Chitambo District, particularly through up-skilling of local health workforce by  provision of nurse training scholarships for students and teaching staff Contributing to the saving of lives through assistance with locally identified clinical needs, such as ambulance maintenance and upkeep in order to promote rapid transfer of  patients to hospital, from remote, rural areas Contribute to advancement of community development,  at Chitambo, through working together to  identify and address local health, education, business and other needs and encouraging community-driven solutions





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Midlothian
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas






