Alliance for Children Everywhere

Alliance for Children Everywhere (ACE) operates programs for orphaned and abandoned children in Zambia. Currently, we have four staff in the U.S. and around 100 staff in Zambia. We work with key staff, the Zambian government and other crucial partners from global organizations, including the faith-based community in Zambia to offer comprehensive care in family permanence, child welfare and education. We believe in empowering Zambians to care for their country and join them in their vision to do so. Our greatest challenge is the magnitude according to UNICEF, in 2015, Zambia ranked as the highest orphan population per capita in the world, with 1,400,000 orphans*. Contrasted to 187 other nations, the hardships of HIV/AIDS colliding with economic and social poverty has decimated the previously prosperous nation of Zambia. As we have followed the demographic research over the past several years, neither extended families nor the government holds the full economic capacity to care f...