Great work in Zambia by Henrik Pedersen

Cup, where 18 teams compet-

ed against each other. It was a

great opportunity to meet up

with many of the coaches, that

we have educated in teaching

both football and life skils to

the young boys and girls in

their clubs.

With the help of Rotary Ros-

kilde, Denmark, we have

started to renovate 5 football

pitches to give the players

better conditions for practic-

ing and playing. It is vital to

give the youth healthy activi-

ties to do, in stead of being

drawn into crime, drug and

alcohol abuse etc.

All in all we are happy to re-

port, that DFZ is well.

In October, former project

leader Peder Tind, now board

member, and chairman Hen-

rik Pedersen visited Dream

Factory Zambia. We had a

great time being in Zambia

again, witnessing the great

work that the staff and the

many volunteers do with

Dream Factory projects.

Our great staff Griselia Msoni,

Mortson Kasoma and Esneya

Sakala head up our office and

projects with great passion to

make a difference helping

their fellow Zambian people.

The projects are going well.

In our Women Empowerment

programme, we help our

third group of 20 women

through one year. Through

micro loans, teaching and

mentoring they are helped to

be able to sustain themselves

and their children, as their

husbands have most often left

them on their own. We aid the

women to be able to be inde-

pendent after one year of

being in the programme.

Our football project are cov-

ering more than 800 players

in 10 clubs. During our visit

we held our annual Dream

In this issue

Great work in Zambia 1

Adopt a Club at a glance 2

Women programme,

exiting news

3

Volunteer story 4

Support Dream Factory 4

November 2nd, 2015 Year 4, issue 3

A child from Nkwazi compound where we work with women project and community school

”If you can dream it, you

can do it”

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Henrik, Mortson, Peder, Esneya and Griselia

Adopt a Club at a glance by Mortson Kasoma

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to the top team. We treat all teams

as winners and indeed it shows. We

are proud that this event was car-

ried out successfully.

We won’t say we have had no chal-

lenges. Our family is growing so

big and our resources are getting

scarce to carter for all of them at

one time. Balls and boots have

been central to the program, in-

cluding the cleaning of their pitch-

es, late alone teaching aids for

youth leaders in respective clubs.

With the so much unemployment

rate in the country, and the rising

cost of living, there is a challenge of

youth not doing anything to help in

their families. We hope that one of

these years we could provide free

entrepreneurship seminars to the in-

volved and help them start their own

small businesses.

We are always hopeful that to-

gether we can do it and make

and leave this world a better

place. Personally, I believe that

one person can change the

world and it begins with me, it

begins with you. Will you join

us?

2015 has been yet an inter-

esting year with so many

activities charactering Adopt

a Club, a program that looks

after the affairs of youth in

both leadership and soccer

skills.

The Dream League, started

last year, has proved a major

success within our district

with so many teams trying to

emulate what we so far initi-

ated.

Mufulira district, another

town where Adopt a Club has

teams, is also planning to

duplicate the Dream League

concept and we are on the

table with them planning

what will transpire next.

The leadership training has in addition

given a boost to the programs that we

have had in varied clubs and many young

people are rising to the challenge of

leading their clubs to success.

From afar, it may seem as if all clubs are

in competition to do better than the oth-

ers but coming closest, they indeed are

just competing against what they were

yesterday to what they can be today. It is

a marvel when one sees just what efforts

and enthusiasm youth are putting in what

they are doing for the love of the game.

Volunteers have been

important component in

executing our programs,

proving training from

basic school skill to first

aid.

Pitch project We have several plans

and activities for the com-

ing year 2016, including

the revamping of about

five (5) pitches, where we

hope to level, mount goal

posts and provide goal

nets, all thanks to Rotary

Denmark and the so many

other people like you that

are helping us run the

program.

Dream Cup 2015 We climaxed this year with the Dream

Cup, an annual soccer

tournament that is usual-

ly held in October at-

tracting more than 600

youth. Dream Cup is

simply one of the best

we have in Zambia

where teams participate

for free, yet have an

attendance award, save

for the trophy that goes

Dream Cup, the game is on

D R E A M F A C T O R Y N G O

Peder adressing the players at Dream

Cup

Inspecting a pitch being improved, posts keeping out cars!

amount to for us to assist the volunteer

teacher as well. Previously, it was a major

challenge to have children enrolling into

government schools as they could not

afford. Fortunately, Dream Factory has

come to their rescue and this concept is

helping them a lot. Apart from the Art

Class that we normally conduct, with the

help of the volunteers, we are so proud to

be a part of this work.

We really appreciate all the efforts, pray-

ers and help that you are rendering to

ensure that this project continues. If you

haven’t considered been part of it, maybe

it’s time you considered to become a part

of something big-the Women Empower-

ment Program in Zambia.

Progress of 20 women Women Empowerment program came

out with a different twist this year after

empowering a further twenty (20) women

with micro loans.

Five (5) women have been enabled to

find their own jobs in town as a result of

been part of the Women Empowerment

Program whilst two (2) women are now

selling in town in their own good shops

Two (2) women

are using the se-

wing machine and

are making baby

dresses, curtains

and bed sheets

which are been

sold to different

places especially

lodges.

Two (2) other

women are in the

business of ma-

king beautiful

door mats and this

great business is

giving them good

profit

Five (5) women are

keeping chickens and out of the same,

one of them has started keeping her own

chickens aside the group upon the group

realising profits as a result of chicken

rearing

Four (4) women from the ones that are

keeping chickens have used their profits

to buy bricks and sand for the house to

keep chickens and their efforts were en-

hanced further by the team coming from

UK where they were helped with K3000

more to finish the chicken house wherein

chickens have now been added.

New chicken house built Aside the many projects that our women

are involved with, our main project this

year has been the erection of a chicken

house, thanks to Soapbox UK, and we are

happy that is a marvel of the community

and it is just a start to

yet greater things to

happen in future.

New community

school!!! Aside that, the com-

munity school we

started to assist vul-

nerable children is

currently running

well. The children

pay only a small

Women Empowerment program by Griselia Msoni

Page 3 Year 4, issue 3

D R E A M F A C T O R Y N G O

Visiting the new chicken house with the women

Children in our new community school Local and english women building the

chicken house together

When we arrive at the Art class we are

met by a small room made of concrete

and painted floors and it is filled with

kids. They just came from school and they

are eager to see what we are going to do

this time. First we greet Griselia and the

other women who are there to help us.

They are just as excited to see what we

brought as the kids are. We start by gree-

ting the kids, and then we tell them what

we are going to do. Today we are making

bracelets out of the yarn. Griselia under-

stands and translates it to the kids in bem-

ba.

They quickly get it and start by picking

out the three colors for their bracelets.

Some of the kids braid the yarn by put-

ting one end in their mouth and braid and

others help each other where one of them

holds the ends of the yarn and the other

makes the bracelet. While the kids are

working Griselia find some beads they

can put on the bracelets. Some of the kids

make a lot and some only make one or

two. We help out where we can and cut

the yarn for the kids. After two hours it is

time to finish up even though the kids

could have kept going until all the yarn

was used. Before we say goodbye to the

kids we all go outside to take a picture of

us with our new bracelets. When we say

goodbye to the kids and the women who

helped. We pack our things and start

walking home. On the way we pass by a

small stall with watermelons where we

buy one every week on the way back

from the Art class".

Maria and Nanna

Page 4 Year 4, issue 3

Dream Factory Zambia Our vision is to develop the general standard of living for the Zambian

people. We believe in a Christian, holistic and freedom oriented focus

which creates a foundation for people`s future dreams by empowering

them to be creative, visionary and responsible.

Your help is vital, and reaches further than you think.Your help is vital, and reaches further than you think.Your help is vital, and reaches further than you think.Your help is vital, and reaches further than you think.

Zambia`s future depends on these young people. With the right attitude

and character, this generation can change Zambia for ever.

• Support Dream Factory with your monthly or single gift of any

amount through Paypal via our website.

• In Zambia, USA or elsewhere you can also support through a bank

transfer to our Zambian accounts.

NGO-department: Finance bank. Account nr. 0025106335019

Swiftcode ZFBAZMLU

Ministry department: FNB Bank. Account. nr. 62396218995.

Branch code: 260103 Swift code: FIRNZMLX

• In Denmark you can support monthly through betalingsservice or

single gifts to bank account Fynske Bank 6854-0000 114 086. Please

state if you support NGO or ministry department. Please go out web-

site under SUPPORT for more details or e-mail us for help or e-mail

us about any subject at info@dreamfactoryzambia.org.

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D R E A M F A C T O R Y N G O V O L U N T E E R S T O R Y

We have had a successful volunteer pro-

gram this year at Dream Factory with a

total of 7 (seven) volunteers coming out to

Zambia from Denmark. Their stay here

has ranged from a period of two weeks to

two months and they have been involved

in the different projects that we run. Our

volunteers really love to share their won-

derful experiences here and below is

such a story told by Maria and Nanna who

were here between April and June this

year.

A day in the Art class "Once a week we visit the Art class in

Nkwazi. Nkwazi is one of the poor com-

munities in Ndola which means that the

kids don’t have much. Before we leave

the Dream House we make sure we have

carried everything in our bag. Today we

need the different colored yarn, a scissor

and the camera. When we leave the

house and walk to the gate, some of the

Major's children

wave and shout,

“see you”. Someti-

mes it is the Major

there himself. He is

the one who owns

the land where the

Dream House is and

him and his family

are always there to

help. When we

have said “see you”

we walk out the

gate and into the

street. On the way

to Nkwazi we pass

by a couple of

women who sell different kinds of vege-

tables, a military area where we cannot

enter and some small stalls. Nearly every

person we pass by greets us “Mulishani?”

which means “how are you?”. To that we

respond “Bwino mulishani?”