Zambia Union of Nurses Organization: Project Details

PROJECTS FUNDED BY NORWEGIAN NURSES ORGANIZATION

(Picture: Mongu Support Group)

1. Capacity building

NNO has continued to support ZUNO with capacity building programs for its members. The following activities were conducted during the year:
oStrategic planning for shop steward training
oDevelopment of training materials
oPiloting Level I Manual
oTraining of Trainers workshop
oPiloting level II manual
oLevel I trainings
oNegotiation skills training
oSkills empowerment workshop for young female nurses

2. Solidarity Fund

The agreement stipulates that 80% of the solidarity funding should go toward this intervention and only 20 % for the above interventions.
The solidarity fund project has four intervention areas namely:

Intervention 1: support to orphans of deceased Nurses and Midwives
Currently 11 children are being supported financially to pay for education requisites such as: School fees, Books, School uniforms, school bags etc. These children are in Eastern, Lusaka and Central Provinces.

Intervention 2: seed money to nurses or their support group
Information has been disseminated through ZUNO structures for onward dissemination to members. So far no support group has made a request.

Intervention 3: financial support to members experiencing financial crisis
Nine (9) members have been supported under this intervention. Reasons for support include:
•Financial support due to illness of the nurse
•Financial support due to loss of employment and no income is coming through
•Financial support due to death of the nurses or biological parent of the nurse

Intervention 4: A small amount of financial support to student members who are also orphans

Seventeen (17) orphaned student nurses are being supported during 2009-2010 period. Out of the 17, six (6) completed Nursing education between 2008 - 2009. We had 10 students in Registered Nursing Schools and 7 students in Enrolled Nursing schools.

For the year 2010 we have supported 09 students; three from University Teaching Hospital, three from Chipata School of Nursing, one from Ndola School of Nursing, One from Kitwe School of Nursing one from Macha school of Nursing.
This intervention has received overwhelming response.

Intervention 5: small loans to nurses
Since the project started, more than 40 nurses have accessed small loans ranging between three million (K 3m) to five million Kwacha (K5m). The purposes of the loans include:

-House construction
-Chicken rearing
-Tailoring
-Paying College fees
-Purchase of plots to build houses, etc

3. Arkershus Twining program

The Akershus twinning program is between Akershus County of the Norwegian Nurses Organization and Luapula province. This project is aimed at supporting orphans in Luapula. Currently there are 15 orphans being supported on the project, although the identified number of orphans is more.

4. ZUNO/NNO HIV/AIDS Project for Nurses and Midwives

The support group activities under the caring for caregivers project are being sustained through the ZUNO structures. IN 2009, the randomly selected support groups were evaluated by two representatives from the Norwegian Nurses Organization. The provinces which were sampled include; Luapula, Central and Northwestern Provinces.

A conference for support group members will be held this year in Malawi on a date to be communicated at a later stage.

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