MAC was set up as a Company Limited by Guarantee in 2008 and achieved charitable status in 2009. It is managed by volunteers, ensuring that all the money donated is channelled into supporting the children who need it.

MAC’s aim is to help children by providing aid for their welfare and education to promote sustainable economic growth and regeneration, enabling future generations to meet their own needs. David Ward and Kate Gray are the directors of MAC. The charity is governed by five trustees  and run by a Management Committee.



Members of MAC first became aware of the plight of vulnerable and orphaned children in Zambia in 2006, when Joyce Phiri of Lesa Kutemwa visited her daughter in Manchester. Lesa Kutemwa is a child care organisation based in the Copper Belt of Northern Zambia.The community has been decimated by the loss of almost an entire generation of parents to HIV/Aids, leaving thousands of children with no consistent means of support.
 
Lesa Kutemwa currently helps to provide the following:

• Food and clothing aid
• Assistance with school fees, uniforms and books
• Assistance with health care
• Support for accommodation needs
• Links into bereavement and HIV/Aids counselling services

Formally registered as a child care organisation in 2008, Lesa Kutemwa is overseen by a number of trustees and run by a Management Committee of four. The organisation provides care and support for children in the towns of Chingola and Kitwe, and also for those in a rural collection of hamlets knows as Musanga, between the two towns. See organisational structure.

See more about MACs first visit to Zambia
See more about Lesa Kutemwa Children
See more about Zambia