AHDI Programmes
Background
The Community Based Intervention (CBI) programme started in 1993 as a philanthropic project by the then British High Commissioner’s wife, Mrs. Archie Hinchcliffe who was working at UTH as a Physiotherapist volunteer. Upon her departure in 1995, she persuaded Action on Disability and Development (ADD) whose head office is in the UK to fund the programme. The CBI programme under ADD was later within the year 1995 registered with Registrar of Societies of Zambia.
Action on Disability and Development (ADD) was a non-service providing organization working with adults, while CBI was a service provider with focus on children with disabilities. This difference in focus prompted the separation of the CBI programme from ADD. It was separated from ADD in early 2007. The process started sometime back in 1998 and was meant to find an organization or a `body` that would take over the running of the CBI programme without disrupting its activities. And that it had to be separated so that CBI could also be free to expand its services and seek for funding elsewhere other than ADD.
CBI was then transformed into a new organization and was registered as Community Based Intervention Association (CBIA), under a new leadership of the Board of Directors. In 2013, the Board decided to register with PACRA due to the attributed benefits. But PACRA rejected the name ‘CBIA’ and that it only gave an explanation of what the organization was doing, it therefore advised them to give the organization a name. The Board then came up with the name ‘Archie Hinchcliffe Disability Intervention (AHDI)’. Upon registration with PACRA in 2013, the organization was issued with a certificate. Further, the organization was registered with ZAPD as indicated in the Persons with disability Act 2012.