MOVE was established in 2010, post Nev's scoping trip to Zambia in 2007.  Nev's vision is to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary acts of kindness by using their everyday skills and expertise to create an environment of sustainability through empowerment, training and education.

MOVE Foundation is a Certified Australian Charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission and and registered Zambian NGO.

During 2011 MOVE partnered with the Zambia Project which operates in Zambia’s Western Province, one of Africa’s remotest and impoverished areas.  MOVE is committed to providing community capacity building resources to the people of the Western Province, in the areas of water, sanitation and hygiene, child protection management, medical assistance, civil and infrastructure works, education and economic development.

Vision
Inspire giving, through a dynamic framework enabling ordinary people to do extraordinary acts of kindness.

Mission
MOVE will seek out and develop short and long term humanitarian projects that require a level of skill and expertise that we in Australia see as common place and would normally be used to increase our quality of life, not provide life support.

Strategy
MOVE will equip and enable through education, training and sustainability.  We will seek out and form alliances with like minded businesses and organisations in Zambia’s Western Province.

Why – Vital Need, Huge Opportunities

What drives me, why Zambia, why water ?

A good mate of my mine, from my time in the South Australian Police Tactical Group is Zambian. Zum as he is known, or Dennis Apollo Zaloumis, is a great bloke with a heart of gold, as most Zambians are. Zambian’s typically have beautiful creative names like Zum’s that are connected to their lives and experiences. Zum would tell me stories of when he lived in the South of Zambia’s Western Province, in the Livingston and Senaga areas where they speak Tonga and how is dad had 10 wives and ran thousands of head of cattle. He would talk about the challenges the people faced and how improvised the region was, so when I started researching where to make a difference, and Zambia came up it was an easy choice for me as I already felt connected.

Once you’ve seen something you can’t un-see it …

I’ve seen vital need, I’ve seen it in Zambia, in Zambia’s Western Province, in Mongu.

When you’ve seen people begging for water you can’t un-see it.

When it’s within your power to impact that space, it causes involuntary action.

When you’ve seen poverty and try to sleep you can’t sleep, not through guilt, you just can’t sleep, you’re forced into action

When you’re living in luxury, and you know others are aren’t and its within your power and capability to impact it, you have to act.

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 When you know the people by name who are begging for water it’s personal

When you know the people by name who are impoverished you must act

When you know you’ve been blessed, you must give back it’s wrong not to, it’s your responsibility, it’s your privilege, it’s your honor to serve.

 This is personal, that’s all I can say, it drives me, it inspires me.

Nev Pace