REPSSI Zambia transforms the lives of children and young people in remote communities by offering mental health and psychosocial support. Through local partners and community-based volunteers, they address emotional wellbeing, reduce stress, and enhance caregiving. Our interventions empower individuals with life skills, promote economic resilience, and create supportive networks, fostering healthier, stronger communities across Zambia.
Our Approach
We believe in creating sustainable partnerships. For the last 18 years, we have maintained a range of partnerships at community, county, regional and international levels. REPSSI works closely with the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC) and the African Union as well as with a range of governments, academic institutions, civil society organisations, researchers and mental health professionals. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), REPSSI believes that psychosocial support is a critical enabler for the achievement of all the SDGs.
Health and sexual reproductive health rights
We train health practitioners to provide care and protection to all girls, boys and youth through their health services
We support adolescents and young people affected by HIV to learn life skills
We help families to give children infected with HIV love, care and protection
We enhance access to and uptake of sexual and reproductive health and rights for girls, boys and the youth
We provide psychosocial support to families affected by cancer.
We conduct mental health needs assessments; screening and diagnosis and advise on enrolment into appropriate treatment programs.
Protection and sustainable livelihoods
We encourage girls, boys, families and communities to prevent violence against children and to adopt more positive gender norms
We train counsellors for Gender-based violence survivors in techniques to promote healing and recovery of their lives.
We provide interventions for children who are in conflict with the law.
We invest in skilling the social service workforce by developing competence based certificate and diploma training programmes
Education and early childhood development
We train teachers on how to collaborate to provide love, care and protection to learners
We promote the role of mothers and fathers in giving love, care and support for the development of young children.
Disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response
We build family and community resilience and promote protection of the environment and reduce climate change through community dialogues
We build capacity to understand and respond to the social and emotional consequences of disasters and humanitarian emergencies in the region
