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  Harvest Family Village Children’s Home

  Harvest Family Village is a children’s institution registered under section 31 of the Children’s Act (Chapter 5:06), registration number SW/10/143. This home, located in the Montgomery area under the Umguza district in Matabeleland North, sits on a 21.5-acre plot which is under intensive development. We currently have three children’s homes, with a fourth one under construction. Our vision is to construct 12 children’s homes that accommodate up to 10 children per home.

  Our mission is to rescue and restore children by establishing families, instilling hope, and preparing them for the future. We receive children in need of safety from the Department of Social Services, mainly from Umguza District under Matabeleland North province.

  With the three homes, our current capacity is 30 children, and we are at full capacity. We have 18 girls and 12 boys. Five children are in ECD, fourteen in primary school and eleven in secondary school.

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  Harare Children’s Home

  The Weslyan Methodist Synod established the Harare Children’s Home in 1918, after the 1918 flu epidemic and post-World War 1 depression had left 11 children homeless. A committee was formed, comprising 15 Ministers and laymen. Reverend Glyndr Davies chaired it. In January 1921 the first general meeting was held, and the first constitution was also adopted.

  The Home was originally located in a building on Victoria Street (now Mbuya Nehanda Street). When the needs of the Home outgrew its location, it was moved to a building on Jameson Avenue
  (now Samora Machel Avenue). Once again, the needs of the Home outgrew its location and in 1956 the Home moved to its present location at 2 Daventry Road, Eastlea, in Harare.

  The Home’s present capacity is 110 children. Each House is made up of a family of 17 to 22 children, cared for by a House Matron and an assistant. Currently, the staff establishment of 29 employees enables the home to care for 81 children.

  Having provided the children’s physical needs: bathing, eating, sleeping, and clothing, the mental needs of the children did not seem to have been addressed. Some of these children are at such a young, formative age that both their mental and physical needs are of equal importance. Mental needs refer to the individual attention and mental stimulation, especially where babies and toddlers are concerned.

  The same concept applies to the older children. Individual attention, letting the children know that what they say and do is important, that someone is there watching them – is of crucial importance. Hence, it is of utmost importance that the Home engages the services of a resident psychologist. To complete the puzzle, the Home has acquired household equipment such as stoves, refrigerators and other kitchen utensils and has started a pilot project whereby it is introducing smaller units for the children to create as much of a family atmosphere as possible. This restructuring has been completed at Muriel House and is beginning in the other Houses.

  These units will enable the House Matrons and workers at the Home to give individual attention to the children thereby making the situation at the Home much closer to that of a real family. This will enable each child to identify with a family from the first time he/she is admitted to the Home. The dining hall and laundry services however remain centralised within the Home for now.

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  Hands of Hope

  THE HANTAM COMMUNITY EDUCATION TRUST is a comprehensive educational and development project situated east of Colesberg in the Great Karoo. Begun as a play school in a disused farm building 25 years ago, it has grown into an early learning center, primary school and intermediate school, housed in a complex built on land donated by a local farmer. The Trust utilises advanced educational methods, including innovative new approaches to achieving basic numeracy and literacy, and helps its learners to complete further education and training. It also manages community health and youth development programmes.

  The HCET employs a six steps to sustainable development method.

  1. STEP ONE: An early start – Young children benefit from an effective parenting programme, followed by intensive early learning in a dedicated ECD centre.

  2. STEP TWO: Quality schooling – Learners are taught by highly trained teachers using specialised teaching methods, aimed at achieving high levels of literacy and numeracy.

  3. STEP THREE: Further education – Successful learners are given bursaries for further education and training, and receive continued guidance and support.

  4. STEP FOUR: Youth development – Young people who do not continue their formal education benefit from a focused youth development programme.

  5. STEP FIVE: A healthy community – Learners and their families receive home visits from health workers, and benefit from a community health clinic and pharmacy.

  6. STEP SIX: Community participation – Parents and other community members support the Trust, and are actively involved in its governance.

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