Our goal at The Lazarus Project is to the rescue, rehabilitate (educate and train for employment) and the transform homeless, hopeless street kids in Zambia. With fifty-five children seven to eighteen years old under our care the work has just begun.

COMPASSIONATE GOD
Life never ceases to amaze us as a project as we discover the families of these children, one such story is that of Albert Mwape.

Eleven-year-old Albert came to the Project on the 4^th of August 2006. According to little Albert he was being mistreated by his parents that is why he left for the streets. However, in his second statement he said he was just playing on the streets and would have liked to be with his parents.

Everything took a turn when the Programmes officer asked him how he was doing and whether he missed his parents, after having a long talk with him on the importance of a family, he explained to her that he really missed his parents and would really love to be with them. He was also asked if it was fine if she knew the place eventually, he led them to the place, in misisi compound. The mother was so overjoyed to meet her son that she could not believe it, she thanked God for sparing her son, as she did not know were he was.

According to Mrs Chig’andu, she had taken her son to live with his uncle in chipata compound. Unfortunately, there was a dispute in the home that led to Alberts auntie scolding him. This caused Albert to leave his Uncles home and head back to his parents home, unfortunately, along the way he met some boys that live on the street and made friendship with them and eventually begun life on the street. His parents did not know were the boy was until a team from the project visited them. It was unbelievable for them because they had reported this matter to the police and the boy was no were to be found.

Albert has now been re-united with his family and has been enrolled in a private school right their at Misisi compound he also sat for their end of year exams and came second in class. As a project, there is no educational support on our part because this family is able to take care of the needs of the child. It is with this background that the project exists to reintegrate displaced children with their families and strengthen family values.

On the 6^th of December,2006 Albert his mother and two brothers decided to visit the project, from the picture you can tell that the boy is so happy to be with his family. It is such a Joy for the project to have such successes stories and our hope is that someday every child that is misplaced will find solace in their homes.