Sport for Social Change Network Zambia Chapter

27/08/2025

This is the latest development to upgrade the football field in Chibolya Community by our local network partner Chibolya Sports Academy. The upgrade will involve leveling the playing field and putting up a wall fence and a dressing room for players.

This part of our larger dream with football in Chibolya Community to create safe spaces were boys and girls were can thrive in their football careers. As a network partner Chibolya football Academy has been and is continuing to change lives through football. We as a team believe that good sports infrastructure can potentially contribute to talent development and identification.
Chibolya is a Komboni referred to as one of the largest in township in Lusaka, Zambia.

Chibolya Community was founded in 1973 and is one of the largest townships in Lusaka. It is considered to be notorious for gang violence in the city.

Through our partnership with Chibolya Football Academy, we are trying to make a difference through football.

Our hope and dream is to aspire the next generation of footballers through creating safe spaces for young boys and girls to play.

Chibolya Football Academy has done a lot work to change the lives of young boys and and girls in a community considered to be a place were hope is almost considered to be lost.

Images show the difference we are making through sports infrastructure development at community and grassroots level.

Thanks for your efforts Ba Sec and Chibolya Zambia
Llets keep the dream alive, with football impossible is nothing.
Team Life Skills Development Foundation and Team Chibolya let's make a change through infrastructure development.

19/08/2025

https://inside.fifa.com/tournament-organisation/volunteers/media-releases/applications-now-open-world-cup-26-volunteer-programme

FIFA today launched the application process for the FIFA World Cup 26™ volunteer programme. This once-in-a-generation community of volunteers will help bring to life a tournament uniting three countries and billions of hearts around the world.

24/03/2025

Good morning and happy Monday to all my friends and partners in Zambia as well as around the world.
As an update today is a special day as we are expecting and receiving our friends and partners from Skjeberg Folk High School based in Norway. The arrive in the country later today under the leadership of Sveinung Finden and Thomas.
They will be in Lusaka for two weeks to implement, initiate and support various sports for development projects. Specifically in Garden they are working to support the work of Life Skills Development Foundation, in Bauleni they will work with Bauleni United Sports Academy and Kalingalinga with Africa on The Ball.
Further more the local Zambian partners will host special events during the time our partners from Norway will be in Lusaka. Skjeberg Folk High School will further support the local partners with material and financial support which will go a long way in sustaining our work and continue to change lives through football

We are excited to host our partners from Skjeberg Folk High School and looking forward to establishing new partnership opportunities.

Malanga Jeff
CEO - Life Skills Development Foundation
Mobile: +260773784391

16/03/2025

Thanks Orit Azaz and your efforts with your team in the UK for the contribution of equipment to Mark Mark Holmes and the Mark Holmes International Football Academy in Zambia in partnership with with Life Skills Development Foundation. Alison you are a great woman this equipment will inspire the next generation of footballers in Lusaka, Lusaka West and potentially shimabala. We look forward to networking with you Birmingham Football Club, your friends and kits for kids.
Welcome to Zambia
Team Life Skills and and team Mark Holmes
Changing lives through football

09/12/2024

Change lives by supporting the Development of the first ever Dreams Football Centre in Zambia.
Help us in resources mobilization to build the first kind the Dreams Football Centre in Zambia. Due lack of sustainable football infrastructure in Zambia many boys and girls have not realized the full potential and achieve their dreams.

I have been privileged to see the positive impact of good quality infrastructure in using football to contribute to positive social change in different countries. Through this unique project many lives will be changed in Zambia.

For more information kindly get in touch with me Malanga Jeff through [email protected] and Mobile: +260773784391.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards from Zambia

05/12/2024

Glad to have created a platform for Barbara Banda to develop her skills during my time as the Director for Breakthrough Chiparamba Soccer Academy. The image was taken during the Gothia Cup an annual international football tournament which takes place in Sweden.
Today she is the BBC African footballer of the year and I just wanted to join all all people from Bauleni community, Zambians and fellow Africans in saying congratulations and all the best.
I am proud of you and your achievement.

04/11/2024

Football, the world’s most popular sport, unites fans, athletes, and nations worldwide. Football is a unique and powerful cultural phenomenon. (3) development through football organizations based in Zambia have joined forces to initiate and organize the 2024 World Aids Day tournament.
The world Aids Day tournament will be a 3-day festival and will be hosted in Chibolya township. The World Aids Day football and education festival will bring together 300 boys and girls aged between 12 and 17 coming from Chibolya and the surrounding communities. The 2024 World AIDS Day Football and education festival presents a unique platform knowledge sharing, networking, sensitising the 300 participants on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
It is behind this background that we are writing you as an individual/company/NGO to come on board and support our efforts through sponsorship to implement the project.

Furthermore, the festival will be a platform to showcase and market your brand as a sponsor or supporter to the participants as well as the wider community will come as spectators.