Avondale Development Centre
JCM started the transit home in order to care and to contribute to the reduction of children living and at risk of moving into the street through prevention and empowerment strategies.

Beneficiaries
We are increasingly over whelmed by the number of vulnerable children needing help. The numbers of children in residence fluctuate, it is varies from 20 – 35; the variation is because of reintegration once the children are rehabilitated. 
We trace their homes and take them back to their parents or other relatives. The children in residence are between the ages of 8 – 17
Children are withdrawn from the streets usually around 4am in the morning by JCM volunteers or are referred to by the Child Protection Unit (CPU) or Social Welfare (Government Offices). Once these children come to the centre, they are given a good bath, new clothes, food and a bed before we open a file and start other services.
We also keep babies from prisons until their parents are released; this is because the state of prisons in Zambia is so dreadful.  
Other beneficiaries are children from within the community who come to our Community school because they cannot afford school fees in Formal Schools.
 

Actions taken at Avondale Development Centre
After withdrawing children from the streets, child labour site and other, we provide them with the following services with the help of Social workers, Teachers, Caretakers and Caregivers.

1. 
   Education
2. Psychosocial Care and support
3. Rehabilitation and reintegration into formal schools
4. Recreation
    
   
   
5. Sponsorship of rehabilitated children
   
   
   
6. Shelter, Clothing and Food
7. Medical Health
8. Empowerment in skills and income generating activities.