OUR VISION
OUR MISSION
Placing Young People at the forefront of change and development.
Young are people taking a leadership role in
addressing the most urgent issues facing their
countries and the world supported fully by their
governments, their communities, businesses
and civil society institutions.
WE HAVE 3 GOAL AREAS
1. Civic Participation
We work to ensure that young
people are significant contributors
to development processes.
Young people are too often excluded
from or overlooked in the decisionmaking processes that directly impact
their lives, communities and countries.
We are committed to ensuring that
governments and policy makers
recognise and support the active role
of young people in society at all levels.
3. Sexual & Reproductive
Health
2. Livelihood and
Employment
We work to promote safe sexual and
reproductive practices among young
people.
We work to support young
people to take up productive
livelihoods and employment.
We work to ensure that young people are
engaging in safe sexual and reproductive
practices that lead to healthy lives. Working
in some of the countries where young people are most profoundly affected by HIV/
AIDS, we are committed to improving their
access to sexual health education and services and empowering them to make responsible, healthy choices.
We are empowering young people
with the skills, inspiration and
resources to take up productive
livelihoods and employment
opportunities that contribute not
only to their household income, but
to the economies of their wider
communities and countries.
HOW WE DO IT
Our agency has expanded and evolved as demand for our youth-led work has grown. To keep lean and mean, we focus our
efforts on 5 integrated approaches:
Delivery of evidence based grassroots
programmes and services to a critical mass of
young people.
Sustained engagement of
Restless Development Alumni in
achieving our mission.
Capturing and disseminating good
practice, replicable models and
learning around youth development.
Provision of targeted technical
support to youth Civil Society
Organizations in Zambia.
Sustained engagement with strategic partners,
government and non-government to work more
effectively with and for young people.
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WHAT WE DO
1. Tikambe Community Programme
The Tikambe Community programme seeks to
strengthen a model which demonstrates youth-led
development as the very best way for Zambia to
meet its obligations to young people. The project
empowers young people to make safe choices
regarding their SRHR and economic and social
well-being, ultimately contributing to reduced
vulnerability to STIs, teenage pregnancy and early
marriage.
The work is led by professionally-trained Volunteer
Peer Educators (VPEs) from within Zambia and from
the United Kingdom who build the capacity of fellow
young people, communities, and local groups in
comprehensive SRHR education, livelihood
opportunities ultimately leading to an increase in the
number of young people in sustainable
income-generating or livelihood opportunities.
The Tikambe Community Programme has been
working in the Central Province of Zambia since
2011 and has been running programmes in 10
communities.
2. Tikambe Youth Accountability
Restless Development has implemented the youth
led accountability model since 2011 in partnership
with the Zambia Governance Foundation (ZGF),
through this model; young people are significant
contributors to development processes that affect
them and they are supported to play an active role
in the development, implementation and monitoring
of local and national level policies.
Furthermore, this project also enables young
Zambian citizens to hold local and central
government to account for improved youth friendly
health service provision.
3. Hands on Learning Project
Restless Development aims to support young people
to lead development, with focus on Civic
Participation, sexual and reproductive health and
livelihoods and this we cannot achieve alone, so we
build the capacity of partner NGOs to be able to
replicate some of our work.
Under this project, we currently support the
Copperbelt Health Education Programme (CHEP) in
the self-assessment methodology to engage more
effectively with their target groups and government
so that CHEP has a stronger influence on policy
processes and increase policy implementation
monitoring .
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OUR PROGRAMMES
4. The Teacher AIDS Action Programme (TAAP)
With support from Irish Aid, we have been
delivering innovative and impact proven
programmes since 2006 in 13 government owned
Colleges of Education targeting student teachers
with a focus on raising their knowledge on issues
relating to HIV and AIDS and building their capacity
to run HIV and AIDS, life skills and related activities
when they graduate as teachers.
The intervention uses a peer led approach which is
aimed at Improving Delivery and Mainstreaming of
Life Skills & HIV Education within Teacher
Education and achieving sustainability in the
implementation of the Ministry of Education,
Science Technical Vocational Training, and Early
Education’s HIV and AIDS Policy to ensure that Life
Skills & HIV Education is delivered to learners in
the education system.
This programme is currently running at the
following Colleges of Education, Kasama in
Northern Province, Malcom Moffat and Nkrumah
University in Central Province, Mansa in Luapula
Province, Solwezi in North-Western Province,
David Livingstone in Southern Province,
Zambia Institute for Special Education
(ZAMISE) in Lusaka Province , Mukuba
University, Kitwe and Mufulira on the Copperbelt
Province, Mongu in Western Province and Chipata
in Eastern Province.
5. Tikambe Youth Media
Restless Development in partnership with
BBC Media Action is working to support the uptake
of healthier Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)
behaviours, and increase understanding of Sexual
and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and
related Life skills issues in Lusaka, Central and
Northern Provinces in Zambia through the effective
and innovative use of mass media and
interpersonal communication.
The Overall Goal of the Tikambe Youth Media is to
ensure that Young people in Lusaka, Central and
Northern Provinces are empowered to demand
greater government accountability in relation to
Sexual and Reproductive Health Right and Sexual
and Reproductive Health service provision and
uptake healthier SRH behaviours.
Currently this programme is running in 25 school,
10 in Northern Province, 10 in Central Province
and 5 in Lusaka Province.
Over 10,000 Young People Access Financial
Education:
Advocates4Action Foundation Training
In January 2014, 20 community based
Advocates4Action (A4As) were trained on how to
Implement programmes targeting five key
policies in the community, the policies included;
The National Youth Policy, Adolescent Health
Strategy, Bank of Zambia Financial Strategy, The
Re-Entry Policy and the Ministry of Education HIV
Policy. The training equipped them with all the
necessary skills to undertake activities in the
communities.
While in the community the A4As carried out
Power Mapping in the communities in which they
work . They also trained in and out of school
youth on the different policies we work on and
how they can Advocate and Lobby the leaders
on issues affecting them and the community at
large.
HEALTH DAY EVENTS Conducted in
10 communities. The health day events are
aimed at linking the community to health services, sensitizing the communities on different
issues affecting the community which includes
Sexual Reproductive Health and Livelihood
issues. The events also links the community to
service providers like banks.
In March 2014, Restless Development
volunteers conducted a series of financial
literacy awareness events in schools and
communities that successfully reached out to
over 10,000 young people.
Some of the school and communities where
these events were conducted were Bwacha
Secondary, Paglory College of Education.
The financial education events aim to empower
young people to adopt positive financial
management behaviours and practices such as
budgeting and saving.
250 Community based advocates
trained in Advocacy
In our continued efforts to empower young
people, our A4A trained and empowered in and
out of school young people in10 communities
across central province in advocacy and
lobbying .
The trainings which covered topics like
advocacy, Power Mapping (which is the
identification of the leaders and the leadership
structure in the community) were aimed at
building their capacity to hold gate keepers,
accountable to service provision and how they
can advocate on issues affecting them and the
community.
BELOW: Innocent Lungu an Advocate4Action conducting an advocacy and
lobbying training for young people at Chitambo Primary
School in Chitambo District, 2014 .
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DIRECT DELIVERY
Improved Delivery and Mainstreaming of Life
Skills & HIV Education within Teacher
Education
Restless Development’s peer led approach in
13 Colleges of Education has demonstrated
effectiveness of SRH and Life Skills teaching at college
level, which has contributed to shaping health behavior
among student teachers.
With two years of implementation in 2013 and 2014, an
outcomes evaluation of this initiative was conducted to
measure the success and provide insights and recommendations that will support the expansion of work. See
below the summary of the results:

92% of respondents stated that the lessons they
have received have been useful for their daily lives.

Clinical visitation data from sample clinics indicate
that 95% of students visiting the clinics were either
referred to the clinic or by a Restless Development
Volunteer Peer Educator or a fellow student teacher
who had been through the program.

As a result of their affiliation or contact with Restless
Development 65% of respondent student teachers
serving at sampled schools are aware of the various
Acts such as: the Ministry of Youth and Sport National Youth Policy, National Financial Education
Strategy, Adolescent Health Strategic Plan
(ADHS).

89% of respondents indicated having attended
either a workshop, a training, lesson or an event
facilitated by Restless Developments’ VPEs at
which they were sensitized on the existing Acts
and /or frameworks like the MESTVEE HIV and
AIDS workplace policy , which would be helpful
during their teaching service.

In 68% of sampled communities, Restless
Development work has been seen to reduce risky
behaviours amongst young people, leading to 5%
fewer cases of early pregnancies than at baseline
which was at 12%.
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OUR PROGRAMMES
The outcomes evaluation further cited Restless
Development peer to peer methodology as the
best practice model to reach out to young
people, it’s against this background that we are
proposing to scale up on the same intervention
and further mainstream and institutionally
strengthen Life Skills & HIV Education within
Teacher Education.
 70.5% of the student teachers have used or
adopted SRH services .
 Overall the project has contributed to the
increase in student teachers adopting safe
SRH behaviours from 25% at baseline in
2013 to 70.5% in 2014. 36.2% being
female student teachers and 34.3% male
student teachers .
 The project has contributed to progressively
increasing the number of student teachers
accessing friendly SRHR services from
health centres from 76% at baseline 2013 to
81.9 % representing a 5.9% point increase.
This represents 40% of female students and
41.9% of male student teachers.
 89.5% student teachers reported
increased knowledge in life skills capacity
building programmes; Of these 42.8% were
female student teachers and 46.7% were
males.
 65.7% student teachers reported
increased knowledge in financial education;
of these 29.5% were female student
teachers and 36.2% were males.
 87.6% student teachers reported increased
knowledge in SRHR; of these 43.8% were
female student teachers and 43.8% were
males.
 53.3% student teachers reported
increased knowledge in policy education; of
these 21.9% were female student teachers
and 31.4 % were males.
Submission to Parliamentary Committee
In February 2014, Restless Development was
accorded a platform in the Sub - Parliamentary
Committee to present the position paper on
teenage pregnancy. The following were key
recommendations made to Parliament:
1. Increased Budgetary Allocations to
Reproductive Health (including family
planning).
2. Ensure access to SRH education in the
education sector are optimized.
3. Share existing policies effectively and finalize
on the draft policies.
4. Build an effective response team to address
teenage pregnancy.
Head Teachers Training
In February 2014, we organized a workshop with
10 head teachers to re-orient them on the ReEntry Policy and HIV and AIDS Workplace Policy
for the Ministry of Education, Science, Vocational
Training and Early Education.
Tikambe Radio Shows aired on Radio
Phoenix, Mkushi Radio, Radio this has
increased awareness on policies targeting young
people and their current state of implementation.
Ministerial commitment of Comprehensive
Sexuality on Education and SRH Services for
adolescents and Young People.
Restless Development attended a meeting
organized by the Ministry of Community
Development aimed at discussing the key
mechanisms for effective joint planning and
monitoring of the East and Southern Africa (ESA)
commitments and providing a road map for
reaching the ESA target by
2014.
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SHAPING POLICY AND PRACTICE
ACT 2015: one goal, many
voices is a movement building
initiative that aims to secure a
post-2015 development
framework that advances the
SRHR and HIV response for
young people.
In Zambia Restless Development is leading on the
ACT 2015 which seeks to achieve the following:
 Promote awareness on SRHR and HIV priorities
for young people in Zambia.
To this effect, a number of activities have been
conducted over a period of 6 months starting in July
2014.
1. Creation of National Alliance: which helped in
coming up with a united voice of youth serving
and youth targeting organisations to talk about
young peoples matters relating to SRHR and
HIV.
2. Public Advocacy Event: Enabled the
alliance to reach out to more people were
reached through the media houses that
attended the event.
3. Health messages on radio: Raising
awareness of the campaign of the Act 2015.
The following are some of the members of the
alliance: Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia
(PPAZ), Center for Reproductive Health and
Education, Afya Mzuri , CHAMP, Population Council ,
Adolescent Reproductive Health Advocates (ARHA),
National Youth Network on Population &
Development (NYPD), Anti-AIDS Teachers'
Association of Zambia (AATAZ), Marie Stoppes,
Young Women in Action (YWA), NZP+, Zambia Federation of Disability
Organisations (ZAFOD),
TALC and Forum for African Women Educationalists of Zambia (FAWEZA).
A Volunteer Peer Educator (Restless Development T - Shirt)
conducting a lesson for pupils at Chitambo Basic School in
Chitambo District, June 11, 2014 .
A heath worker conducting BP Checkup for Young People during a Health Day
Event held at Lukanga Basic School in Kabwe District, July 18, 2014.
Volunteers on the Teacher AIDS Action programme being
empowered with information and skill to enable them run effective
activities when in placement.
Ward Councilors for some of communities we work in engage in discussion
during a workshop held at Zambezi Source Lodge in Kabwe, March 25, 2014.
Health Personnel being trained on the delivery of Youth Friendly
Services in Chawama, Lusaka District.
Kabwe District Commissioner (DC) addressing the attendants of the Health Day
Event held at Mwashi Primary School in Kabwe District, July 18, 2014.
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CAPTURE THE MOMENT
176 Young People Empowered and Engaged to Lead
Development.
Quotes From Volunteers
“The experience has been
awesome and unregreatable,
its been a good fight and am
proud to say I made it.”
Winfridah Musonda,
Tikambe Youth Media,
Kasanda Malombe Primary
School, Kabwe.
“This programme has really
helped me to understand and
learn how people solve and
deal with problems in the
communities. This has made
me a responsible person in
the community.” Peter
Kateule, Tikambe
Community Programme,
Changilo, Mkushi.
“I really enjoyed being on the
programme which has
improved my Lifeskills like
Facilitation and
communication skills and it
has made me to be able to
learn how to solve problems..
I have also acquired a lot of
information which has also
helped me with my business.”
Joseph Matonga, A4A,
Tikambe Youth
Accountability ,Mututu
Community.
176 Young People were recruited, trained and deployed to lead
implementation of development activities by Restless
Development in schools, communities and colleges.
About 20 of the selected young people worked in 12 Colleges of
Education across Zambia to build the capacity of student
teachers to implement Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)
education related activities.
76 were on the Tikambe Community programme based in 10
communities within Central Province to implement SRH and
Livelihood awareness raising activities. Out of these 36 were
International Volunteers from the UK.
20 as Advocates4Action in 10 communities in central province to
implement the Tikambe Youth Accountability Programme
Meanwhile the other 60 were under the Tikambe Youth Media
Programme working in 25 communities across Central, Lusaka.
7 Internship Placements were Provided to Young People
2 alumni worked in the Finance and Administration Unit , 2
Young People both male with the Monitoring and Learning
Unit, and 3 alumni (1 female, 2 male) were placed at our
partner organisation CHEP.
Alumni are young people who had volunteered on any of our
programmes and completed their placement successfully.
Young People empowered to take on Leadership Roles
12 alumni were provided with career development and employment in 2014 3 (1 Female and 2 Male) were involved in the
feasibility study, another 3 (1 Female and 2 Male) were
engaged as facilitators during the Financial Literacy Week which
reached out to over 10, 000 Young People. furthermore
6 alumni were recruited as Assistant Programme Coordinators.
“I have learnt to be assertive
and tolerant, to be bold, brave
and adventurous. Also what it
takes one person to be
inspired and motivated by you
need involvement from
everyone for anything
successful and sustenance to
happen.” Steph Berry,
UK Volunteer, Tikambe
Community Programme
Chalata Community,
Mkushi.
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GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP
“The Lifeskills I acquired from the
programme have greatly increased my
confidence allowing me to further think
deeply and make informed choices and
decisions. These are critical aspects of
personality and the growth in this area
means an individual personality is destined
for greatness.” Dennis Mtonga, Teacher
AIDS Action Programme,
Mukuba University, Kitwe.
“The session with Restless Development was informative and
interesting, we have learnt a lot about Sexual Reproductive Health
and Lifeskills.”
“We appreciate Restless Development Volunteers
for information that they are sharing with us,
atleast pupils in school and the community at large
are learning new things”
Mr Chilala, Ward Councillor, Mkushi North,
Mkushi District
“Continue organizing these kind of events because
it will help my community to have a lot of
knowledge especially on drug abuse and family
planning.”
Mr David Chanda, Village Headman, Musa
Community, Kasama District
“The Peer Leaders Training has opened my
understanding on different issues that affect
youths and this knowledge will help me run lessons
effectively in school.”
Titamenji Lupupa, Student Teacher, Mukuba
University, Kitwe District
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VOICES FROM OUR PARTNERS
Beatrice Mwila, Youth Alive Club President and Senior
Prefect, Matero Girls Secondary School, Lusaka District
“ We are working well with Restless Development and we
appreciate the capacity building trainings they are giving our
students, because from here we believe that we shall produce
better and more confident teachers because of the activities they
do under Restless Development.”
Mr. Lwansa, College Registrar, Mansa College of Education,
Mansa District.
“This has been the first event ever held in Malama Community
which has made pupils, teachers, parents and people from other
communities to access health services.”
Mr. Chanda Kenneth, Community Representative, Malama
Community, Kasama District
“Now I know a lot of things about puberty that I was not taught and
I realise these changes and emotions am experiencing are normal
so I have nothing to worry about.”
Cleopatra Mulima, Grade 9 pupil, Mindolo Basic School, Kitwe
District
Christabel conducting a training for the Tikambe Community Programme Volunteers at Pilgrims Motel in Kabwe on August 21, 2014.
The trainings are aimed at empowering volunteers to effectively deliver their work before their deployment.
Meet Christabel, Staff Member of the Quarter.
Every Quarter we have a staff member of the Quarter
who is nominated by fellow staff for the their hardwork.
This quarter we had Christabel Machila. She was
recognized for the amazing work she has been doing over
the past months. Congratulations Christabel! Please
keep up the good work!
So what is the secret, how does she do it, well we met up
with her and this is what she had to say.
Question. Who is Christabel Machila
Answer. Am the 4th born in a family of six, I did my
education at Rhodes Park School in Lusaka, St Josephs
Secondary School in Southern Province were I sat for my
grade 9 and 12. Later on, I pursued a Bachelors Degree
in Social Sciences at Africa University in Mutare,
Zimbabwe .
Q. When did you join Restless Development? What
positions/volunteer roles have you held within
Restless Development over time? What do you do
today?
A. I joined Restless Development in 2011 as a
Volunteer Peer Educator under the College Programme,
after which I became an Assistant Programme
Coordinator in March 2012. Since then I have been
holding a programmers’ role.
Q. Which of our Values speaks to you the most and
why?
A. All our values speak to me. But the one that
speaks most is the Head – ( professional, results). The
open environment that Restless Development offers to
its people professionally provides everyone with an
opportunity to showcase their leadership ability and
produce quality results in whatever they do.
Q. What do you think makes Restless Development
so special?
A. The fact that it gives young people an opportunity
to explore and realize their full leadership potential makes
it unique and special.
Q. What’s your favorite part of Restless
Development…in your job or beyond?
A. My favorite part of Restless Development is
working with other young people and being able to
interact with many different types of people of varying
personalities and skills level as it creates a platform for
me to learn from different people’s experiences.
Q. How do you manage to excel at what you do?
What drives you?
A. I manage to excel at what I do because of
determination and hard work, I love standing in
whatever duty I carry out and that is what drives me to
work extra hard.
Q. If you could say one thing to all of your
colleagues across Restless Development, what
would it be?
A. It all takes hard work and determination to
succeed in your various roles.
Q. Any other thoughts That you’d like to share about
how best we can inspire our staff?
A. One-on-One Coaching for Staff Development and
Recognition of staff when they have achieved
something/accomplished assigned tasks.
Teaching Practice Assessment
The Know Your Policy Toolkit has now been translated into
Lozi, the language that is used in Mongu and parts of Western
Province. This was done with the view of enhancing Civic
Participation among the young people in Mongu and beyond who
may not be conversant with English.
Programme Quality
Throughout the year, we had conducted a number programme
implementation visits to programme sites. The visit were aimed at
tracking implementation as conducted by the volunteers in specific
projects. The Visits were done for all the programmes we are doing
drawing out key lessons learned on while providing data quality
check to the volunteers .
Visit by Claudia Lo Forte
The Restless Development Global Research and Learning Manager
visited Zambia on a learning mission. The visit focused on the
understanding of research process in Zambia as well as
understanding the cost of evaluation in Zambia. Claudia's visit also
provided learning experience for Zambia Monitoring and learning
Unit.
We have continued supporting governments
effort in improving sexuality education in
school and colleges of education. The capacity building programme in the college continues to support student teachers to be able to
implement sexuality, civic participation and
livelihoods education to young people in
education in primary and secondary schools
once they are deployed as teachers.
During this quarter, some students went for
teaching practice which is part of their teacher
training which makes it possible for them to
practice what they are learning and some of
the things that they are supposed to practice is
the implementation of the work that we train
them on.
To check if the student teachers were
implementing the work, their lecturers led an
assessment to assess the student teachers. A
report of the findings has since been compiled
and has been shared with stakeholders like
the colleges themselves.
3 Quarterly Newsletters were developed and shared
In 2014, we developed newsletters to highlight some of the work that we are doing and the achievements we are soring
with stakeholders ranging from schools we are working with, community and civic leaders, councillors, colleges of
education.
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SHARING AND LEARNING
The Results
The Challenge
While the Zambia Demographic Health Survey reports
that general knowledge on SRH may be high, they are
still low levels of knowledge on comprehensive and
correct contraceptive use and methods in some parts of
the country. Mansa College of education on one of the
places with low of awareness levels on SRH issues and
life skills; this therefore has led to high indulgence in
illicit and sexual activities among the student’s populace
and the general surrounding community members. This
this situation has been worsened by the fact that even
young people that are aware of contraceptive use and
method have a problem accessing SRH services due to
the fact that they find older health workers at most
health centers who are unfriendly and unwelcoming to
sexually active young people, making it unlikely for the
young person to return in the future for the information
and services they need.
The Initiative
Restless Development through the Teacher AIDS Action
Programme holds in-college Health Day Events each
and every year as part of the student teachers capacity
building programme. Health day events basically aims at
raising awareness of SRH and SRH services, as well as
give an opportunity for the student teachers to access
SRH service within the college setting. These events are
run by VPEs in conjunction with the College
management and the major stakeholders in these communities such as the local health clinics and other
organizations working in the areas of SRH and life skills.
Among the stake holders that the Restless Development
college programme volunteer peer educators have been
working with over the years include the local health
clinic- the clinic sends health personnel to attend the
health day and these sensitize the college on many
aspects of SRH and offer services to the student
teachers. Apart clinics there are financial institutions
that hold financial literacy talks with the students and the
community members that attend the health day event.
This day also presents an opportunity to the students
that are under the college programme as they are given
chance to show case some of the SRH and life skills
that they have been learning in other various
activities that they conduct under the
programme.
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CASE STUDY
The health day events have had significant results
to the college populace and the community as the
health services are brought near to the them; thus
has helped in increasing access to the services
Health day events have also been an effective way
of raising awareness concerning various sexual
reproductive health issues that are affecting the
students and the communities at large.
Furthermore peer mentors revealed that the
events have had vital effects in helping them build
on their lobbying and advocacy skills. They further
indicated that the skill they have acquired will be
helpful as they implement SRH and life skills
activities in schools and communities as they will
need stakeholders to work with as they organize
for different awareness raising activities.
The local health clinics have also explained that
there is an increase in the number of students
visiting the clinic asking for SRH services after the
health event. The staff further explained that there
however is a tendency for this number to gradually
decline until another health day event is held at the
college. This decline can be attributed to the fact
that during and after the health day event, students
and the community members acquire the
information they need to make SRH decisions but
the gap in the dissemination of information
between the events becomes problematic.
Management of the college said, the health day
events have had huge impacts on the students
populace and the institution in general, apart from
bringing health services nearer to the students,
through the sensitization of SRH and life skills, the
health events have positively influenced the
students which has improved their decision making
skills thereby leading to less indulgence in sexual
activities and eventually a reduction in the number
of unwanted and early pregnancies at the college.
“The programme has brought to life one of my hidden
talent in drama by instilling self-esteem and confidence
in me, I didn’t know I could act until I joined the
programme. The programme is thus vital to the
attainment of a healthy and productive future
generation.”
Chitanda Bonny, Male Student Teacher
Head Office
Restless Development
15 Gwembe road
Highridge
P.O Box 80305
Kabwe
Phone: +260 215 225 078
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.restlessdevelopment.org/zambia
Lusaka Office
Restless Development
Suite No. 107
Foxdale Court Zambezi Road
Roma
Lusaka
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