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Chambuta Children’s Home
Donate nowChambuta children’s Home is a government founded Home located in Chilonga, Chiredzi North district of Masvingo Province. The Home was a former refugee camp established in 1988 to shelter Mozambican refugees displaced by civil war in that country. When they returned to their country, the Government converted it into a children’s Home. The Home was established as a suitable place to provide shelter to children living and working on the streets of the various towns in the country. As part of imparting skills, the home has a running vocational training scheme which provides skills to children from the Home and from the community. Currently the home is housing 60 children, 40 in Primary and 20 in Secondary School.
Objectives
- To promote child welfare through
- Providing shelter for children who live and work in the streets.
- Ensuring that children receive parental care, love, and guidance.
- Providing necessities such as food and clothes.
- Grooming children into responsible, independent and life skills-equipped adults.
- Imparting life skills through the vocational scheme.
- Facilitating children’s education and ensuring that they remain healthy.
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Chiedza Child Care
Donate nowChiedza is a community-based NGO registered with the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Development in 2003, PVO 58/23. It was established in 2001 by concerned professionals and citizens of Zimbabwe in response to the devastating impact of HIV and AIDS on children and families. They were touched by an increasing number of orphans as a result of AIDS-related deaths. With the advent of antiretroviral therapy, the organisation continued to adapt, responding to the impact of HIV and AIDS on children and their families.
i) Education – providing early childhood education services to at least 30 children between the ages of 4 to 6 years annually. Chiedza has a registered ECD center for orphans and vulnerable children in Ardbenie. Chiedza additionally provides catch up lessons for at least 200 children from the ages of 8 to 18 years who are out of school. The children attend lessons at the center and are provided with meals through the support offered by Higherlife Foundation. Chiedza pays pay school fees for children who were once out of school and are reintegrated into formal schools up to tertiary level.
ii) Vocational Training – Supporting young people to undergo vocational training through working with established centers. At least 40 young people are being supported.
iii) Formal Tertiary – Those who successfully go through the out of school program up to tertiary level are supported with tuition. Chiedza has 9 learners in various state universities.
iv) Protection – Chiedza provides counselling, conducts parenting sessions, facilitates birth registration and supports abused children and those at risk of abuse through case management.
v) Health and Nutrition – Chiedza supports children living with HIV with medical support, food packs and facilitate support groups through working with local clinics. They also conduct health assessments for children and provide hot meals for at least 200 children learning at the center 5 days a week, during school terms.
vi) Economic Strengthening – Parents and caregivers are trained in group savings and specific income generating skills. Reaches at least 200 parents annually.
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Chiedza Community Welfare Trust
Donate nowThe Chiedza Community Welfare Trust is dedicated to improving the well-being and quality of life for individuals and families within communities. Its activities may include:
Offering social services such as food aid, clothing, shelter, and basic necessities to vulnerable populations, including the elderly, orphaned children, people with disabilities, and low-income families.
Providing educational support, including school supplies, scholarships, and educational programs, to promote access to education and improve educational outcomes for children and youth.
Conducting healthcare initiatives such as medical clinics, health education programs, immunization drives, and access to basic healthcare services for underserved communities.
Implementing community development projects focused on infrastructure improvements, water and sanitation, livelihood support, agriculture, and income-generating activities.
Facilitating skills training, vocational programs, and entrepreneurship initiatives to empower individuals and promote self-reliance and economic stability. -
Child Future Africa (CFA) Children’s Home
Donate nowChild Future Africa (CFA) is a private voluntary organization founded in 2002 by George Seremwe. George Seremwe has a passion for community empowerment and development. Its establishment came in a bid to address the challenges faced by children especially orphans in Mashonaland Central. Child Future Africa operates in all the 8 districts of the province. Mashonaland Central lies on the northern part of Zimbabwe and it sits on a total area of 28 347 km2 and has an estimated population of 1 152 520 (Census 2012) representing about 8.5 % of the Zimbabwe’s population. Farming and illegal mining are the major economic activities, exposing children (1-18 years) to early marriages, child Labour, drug abuse, school dropping, sexual and physical abuse, forced marriages and orphans being the most affected as they are exposed to poverty, hunger and poor living standards entrapping them to the above-mentioned social evils. Child Future Africa has come up with several tailor-made interventions which seek to address the mentioned challenges and to empower young people especially orphans and vulnerable children to partake in initiatives that contribute to personal and community development for the betterment of their lives. Child Future Africa operates a orphanage shelter in Mt Darwin which houses 20 orphans from different parts of the province. The orphanage shelter is situated on a 10000 m2 fenced premise. The project runs 2 houses with 2 foster mothers. It is set up in a rural model with the shelter being close to a farm that produces grain for consumption and income generation. A school is situated in the vicinity of the shelter to provide education to the young minds and empowering them academically, for education is the only weapon that can prune them from the bondage of poverty. The main thrust and objective of Child Future Africa is to develop the orphanage home into a self-sustainable project that produces great minds and responsible citizens.
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Child Protection Society
Donate nowChild Protection Society (CPS) protects and promotes the rights and well-being of children in Zimbabwe.
In addition to child protection services, CPS provides youth empowerment initiatives, education programs, health and nutrition services, and livelihood support.
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Child Restoration Outreach (CRO)
Donate nowChild Restoration Outreach Uganda has been supporting children living on the streets in Northwestern Uganda and their families since 1992.
They provide education, health, and nutrition support, recreational activities to young people, and reintegration programs to reconnect children with their families.
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Children in Distress (CINDI) Kitwe Trust
Donate nowChildren In Distress (CINDI) is reducing the vulnerability of children and their caregivers by empowering households and communities in peri-urban areas around Kitwe.
Their programming includes an early childhood development (ECD) centre and training caregivers on in-home-based ECD practices as well as providing educational support to children at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. They also provide access to vocational training for livelihood support.
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Chinyaradzo Children’s home
Donate nowChinyaradzo Children’s Home provides residential care for at least 60 children, ranging from birth to 18 years old. The Home was designed to provide temporary shelter for children while alternative arrangements were being made. This includes reintegration with the extended family members and arrangements for foster care. The home spearheads foster care programs in close liaison with the Department of Social Welfare. However, because of the increasing number of orphans and their needs, coupled with economic hardships, alternative places of committal are no longer easily available. As a result, children have found themselves living at Chinyaradzo Children’s Home for all eighteen years of their lives. Therefore, to respond strategically to the needs of these children, the purpose of the Home was reviewed. Chinyaradzo now exists to provide a permanent Home to children in difficult circumstances from ages 0-18.
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Chiredzi Christian Children’s Home
Donate nowChiredzi Christian Children’s Village was registered in 2002 as a church institution to take care of OVCs. The institution is under the administration of Hippo Valley Christian Mission which is a Christian Organization based in the United States of America. Chiredzi Christian Children’s Village is among seven registered orphanages in Masvingo Province. The institution is situated in Chiredzi urban at stand 3241 Tsovani Township. Chiredzi is an agro-based town, and its existence has been made possible through Hippo Valley, Triangle and Mkwasine estates. The institution has 80 OVCs out of about 5000 institutionalised OVCs nationwide according to the Ministry of services welfare. Its main goal when it was founded was to take care of those children who were completely destitute and abandoned. This was the only institution in the district at that period. Now there are two orphanages in the district. Currently it houses 51 children and it is making sure that they are living well whilst trying to equip them for the future.
Objectives
- To enhance child welfare by providing orphans and vulnerable children with shelter.
- Providing parental care, affection, and direction to children.
- Provide essentials like food and clothing.
- Growing children into responsible, self-sufficient people with life skills.
- Providing a solid Christian foundation for our children.
- Facilitating children’s education while also ensuring their health.
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Christ Ministries Children’s Home
Donate nowChrist Ministries Children’s Home is situated in Belvedere, operating under Christ Ministries Church. The Home looks after orphaned and vulnerable children. It is registered with the ministry of labour and social welfare.
CMCH aims to empower the disadvantaged children spiritually, physically, emotionally, economically, socially, and academically through provision of a strong social support system.
Objectives
- To promote child welfare through:
- Providing shelter for orphans and vulnerable children.
- Ensuring that children receive parental care, love, and guidance.
- Providing necessities such as food and clothes.
- Grooming children into responsible, independent and life skills-equipped adults.
- Providing a strong Christian base for our children.
- Facilitating children’s education and ensuring that they remain healthy.
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Compassion Ministries – Ivordale
Donate nowThe Compassion Ministries is a non-profit making organization which was started in 1984. It was established as a non-profit and faith-based organization that the church uses to meet the needs of vulnerable children.
The Compassion Ministries vision is to improve the quality of life of orphans and vulnerable children. It is dedicated to collectively reduce Child suffering, abuse of children the through, education, supportive counseling, advocacy, and other evidence-based interventions taking a holistic approach. Compassion Ministries works to:
• Provide psychosocial Support to the children. This enables the children coming from abusive backgrounds to feel loved and special, hence reaching their full potential.
• Improve the lives of the children, by giving them the best education through prioritising education. All children are in school, from pre-school to university level.
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Danai Children’s Home
Donate nowDanai Children’s Home was established in 2002 by Gogo Saungweme, who has since passed away. A board of trustees now manages the home. There was a gap in the community for abandoned, abused and orphaned children, hence the birthing of the vision. The institution has a maximum capacity of 25 children. Currently, 29 children are residents at the home, 15 Girls and 14 boys. The vision is to ensure that children at Danai grow up in an environment where they can discover their purpose in life and learn to walk in self-control and wisdom, growing stronger in spirit, so that they can fulfil their purpose. “And the child grew strong in body and wise in spirit.
