GRACE Cares

08/13/2026

YOCUPA recently trained 250 children at Bauleni Special Needs Projects School, including children with disabilities and other special needs. 🛡️

The training focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, menstrual hygiene, child protection, and preventing online and offline child sexual abuse.

Students also learned about their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

Because children deserve more than vague warnings. They deserve language, tools, support, and adults who take prevention seriously. 👧🏾📚

Learn more about YOCUPA:
https://www.gracecares.org/partner-projects/

08/11/2026

Project Hearts has launched a new round of community health leadership training in Baitoa. ❤️

On June 24, Juana Altagracia Rodríguez, coordinator of the Community Learning Program, began a new LICS course with 8 future women leaders from 4 communities, with more participants expected to join.

The goal is prevention, health promotion, education, training, and empowerment for women in Baitoa.

By early July, the group had grown to 11 leaders from 5 communities, studying water, safe use, potable water, and the health risks that come when water is unsafe.

Community health education: cheaper than crisis response and much better for everyone's blood pressure. 💧📚

Learn more about Project Hearts:
https://www.gracecares.org/partner-projects/ -hearts

08/06/2026

Watha's work in Kenya connects the dots between health, food, income, and resilience. Because communities do not live in neat little program categories. 🌱

In 2025, Watha helped train 556 people through WASH workshops across 6 villages, supporting safer hygiene, sanitation, and water practices.

Their work also includes irrigation, beekeeping, goat farming, and food security activities that help families strengthen both health and livelihoods.

In other words: cleaner water, stronger food systems, more income options, and fewer "we will deal with this later" problems. 🐐💧

Learn more about Watha:
https://www.gracecares.org/partner-projects/

08/04/2026

Small update from GuateBuena: efficient stove work is expected later this year, with approximately 10 to 20 stoves planned for the final quarter. 🔥

In the meantime, GuateBuena is moving forward with broader ecological work tied to the same goal: healthier homes, cleaner environments, and more sustainable community practices.

Their team is developing an experimental ecological area where children, youth, and families can learn about environmental care, recycled materials, reforestation, medicinal plants, and organic gardens.

So, no new stove photos yet. But yes, the environmental work is very much alive and planting things. Literally. 🌱🌎

Learn more about GuateBuena:
https://www.gracecares.org/partner-projects/

07/30/2026

YOCUPA is back in the classroom, and the lesson plan is not "please figure life out on your own." 📚

In Zambia, YOCUPA is training secondary school pupils, primary school pupils, and vulnerable students in vocational training on sexual and reproductive health and rights, menstrual hygiene, child protection, and online and offline child sexual abuse prevention.

The work uses YOCUPA's 7ASIDE ASHAGS model, helping young people understand their rights, recognize harm, support peers, and know where to report abuse.

This is practical prevention. Less whisper network, more actual safety structure. 🛡️👧🏾

Learn more about YOCUPA:
https://www.gracecares.org/partner-projects/

07/28/2026

A mobile library sounds simple until you remember what happens when children actually get access to books. 📚

Through MYEP's Books on Wheels program in Zambia, two schools hosted 42 school reading sessions, reaching 1,680 pupils in grades 2 through 6.

The program also reported a 25% increase in pupil attendance at participating schools. Apparently, books can pull up with better attendance energy than some adults. Respectfully. 🚌✨

MYEP's work reminds us that literacy is not extra. It is foundational.

Learn more about MYEP:
https://www.gracecares.org/partner-projects/

07/23/2026

A good school talk can do more than fill an hour. It can remind students that their future is still theirs. ❤️📚

Project Hearts scholarship students recently joined a leadership and study-motivation talk at San José Adentro, encouraging younger students to keep working toward their goals and to believe in the power of education.

This is the ripple effect we like to see: students who have been supported becoming examples for the next group coming behind them.

No motivational poster required. Just real young people showing what is possible when education gets backed by community. 🎓

Learn more about Project Hearts:
https://www.gracecares.org/partner-projects/ -hearts

07/21/2026

We came this close to the goal. Like, "check the couch cushions" close. 💸

Thanks to our donors, board members, friends, and very persistent link-sharers, GRACE Cares raised $5,899 of our $6,000 goal during GlobalGiving July Bonus Day.

Your support will help YOCUPA in Zambia continue child protection work through school-based ASHAGs, trauma-informed youth support, hotline planning, community outreach, and essential tools for coordination and reporting.

Thank you for showing up for locally led child safety work. We are grateful, encouraged, and only mildly resisting the urge to send everyone a gold star. 🛡️🌍

Support YOCUPA's work:
https://www.gracecares.org/donate

07/16/2026

One more hour left to make a difference!

Thank you to everyone who has donated already, we are so close to our goal!

Donate here: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/fund-community-programs-and-child-safety-in-zambia/

Please share or remind a friend - just ONE MORE HOUR LEFT.

We'll share final campaign results once everything is confirmed through GlobalGiving. For now, we are grateful for every person who showed up for locally led child safety work. 💻🛡️

Learn more about YOCUPA:
https://www.gracecares.org/partner-projects/

Learn more about GRACE Cares:
https://gracecares.org/

07/15/2026

Psst! July Bonus Day ends tomorrow morning! The group project is almost due, but this time the group project is protecting children. 🕒

GlobalGiving Bonus Day is still live, and donations of at least $100 qualify for matching. The campaign window closes July 16 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. We are SO CLOSE to our goal of $6000!

Donate here:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/fund-community-programs-and-child-safety-in-zambia/

Check out YOCUPA here:
www.yocupa.org

Tonight is a strong time to support YOCUPA's work in Zambia: school-based child safety groups, trauma-informed peer support, Theatre for Community Action, hotline planning, and the basic tools needed to coordinate it all.

Small organizations need resources. Let's help move some. 💸🛡️

YOCUPA   Youth Cultural Promotion Association Report Donate Now “To create a healthier and safer Zambia where children, youth, and survivors are protected from the devastating effects of sexual violence.” Our Vision We envision a society where individuals, families, and communities work togethe...