meet Chipo - his enthusiasm for facilitating groups brought him to be a star participant in the Street Health Training of Trainers and he has since become a lead trainer for Street Kids International’s programming across Zambia.
Chipo: training kids and trainers
Zambia
Chipo Chiiya planned to be a professional soccer player and was trained by Zambia’s most recognized player and coach, Kalusha Bwalya. When an injury forced Chipo to find another vocation, he studied to be an accountant and began to work for Fountain of Hope an organization supporting street children in the capital city Lusaka.
Chipo’s
role of bookkeeper did not stop him from starting a soccer team for
Fountain of Hope. He was also asked to represent the organization
at Street Kids International’s pilot Street
Health workshop in September 2002.
Chipo’s enthusiasm for facilitating groups brought him to be a star participant in the Street Health Training of Trainers and he has since become a lead trainer for Street Kids International’s programming across Zambia. As a lead trainer, he is training approximately 90 people, and 20 future trainers per year, alone impacting in the neighborhood of 400 kids.
Further to participating in the African launch of the Street Business Toolkit, Chipo has begun his own business of running camps for street kids using many of Street Kids International’s methodologies and techniques.
