Twapia Transient Home is part of the large project run for orphans and other vulnerable children by the Ndola Diocese. The aim of this overall project is to care for children with physical disabilities (Cheshire Homes); rehabilitate orphaned and street children as well as commercial sex workers, by providing them with basic education, alternative skills (Ipusukilo Street Women Rehabilitation Project), meeting food, health and school needs of the younger children (Twapia), and care for HIV infected children (St Anthony Children's Village).

Twapia Transient Home is run by the Dominican sisters. It accepts children from any part of the country. The home is called transient exactly because the sisters' ultimate aim is to either locate relatives who would take the children or find foster homes for them. However, in 2004, a number of the children had been there for four/five years because they could not be placed with families, a developing phenomenon. Poverty has become so entrenched in Zambia that many relatives or possible fostering parents are daunted by the prospect of additional responsibilities.

Children of school- going age attend a public school close to the Home. This also gives the children an opportunity to meet and make friends with others from the neighborhood. A pre-school nursery for the younger children has been added to the Home. In 2003-2004, the sisters undertook renovations to the house to accommodate more children and their matrons. A lovely vegetable garden and playing gadgets have also been added to make life as enjoyable as possible for the children.

Assistance from ZOA in 2004 was in the form of clothes donated by friends and colleagues in the U.S.A. But during the year three children, who had tested negative of HIV, were transferred from St. Anthony Children's Village and are now attending school together with the other children. Zambia Orphans of AIDS supported the Children's Village on a regular basis throughout 2004.

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