There's a version of this update that's just numbers, and the numbers alone would be a good year: 664 case workers working across more than 300 communities, over 122,000 people reached with HIV, health, and socioeconomic services, 461 children supported to stay in school, 562 Women Empowered savings groups trained and running on their own. Every one of those figures is real, and every one of them took a case worker on a bicycle, a boat, or their own two feet to make happen.
But 2025 was really a year of groundwork paying off. Early in the year, we broke ground with Bayer on the Caleb Esnart Munzele Community Health Centre in Kabwe — a facility that, once complete, will bring maternal care, immunization, and outpatient services within walking distance of families who currently travel hours for a clinic visit. By the year's end, construction had moved from foundation to framing, and the excitement in Munga Ward was impossible to miss.
Our ECAP+ program — the five-year, USAID-funded effort to control the HIV epidemic among children and adolescents — expanded its footprint this year, with new launches in Northern and Western Provinces bringing case management, HIV testing, and economic strengthening support to families who'd never had a program like this reach them before. We also deepened our integration of Psychological First Aid into routine home visits, recognizing that a family in crisis needs more than a referral slip — they need someone trained to sit with them first.
None of it happens without the people who fund it and the people who show up for it. To Global Communities, USAID, Bayer, GlobalGiving, FNB Zambia, and Zambia's Ministry of Health — thank you for betting on a model that puts case workers at the center. And to the 664 of them walking the roads of Zambia's 30 districts this year: thank you for making the numbers mean something.
2026 is already shaping up to be bigger. The health centre in Kabwe is on track to open its doors, ECAP+ continues expanding province by province, and we're carrying every lesson this year taught us into the next family we reach.
Stories like this happen because a case worker showed up.
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