African AIDS Angels supports St. Nicholas Orphanage Village at the Makeni
Ecumenical Centre just outside Lusaka, Zambia. The
orphanage cares for about 35 children, providing health care, clothing,
and school fees. ![]() The orphanage involves the children in local fund-raising ventures such as baking, crafts making and garden sales. This gives the children an opportunity to contribute to their own well-being and to prepare for the future. Their gardening efforts help supply the kitchen. Since 2008, AIDS Angels also contributes to a rural resettlement project run by the Makeni Centre which helps families, many headed by women, become self-sufficient in food production. The funds pay for seeds and rental of oxen and other labour to make food farming productive. Contact with this group was made through a Victoria doctor whose father founded the centre as an Anglican missionary.
Click on the image directly below or the link for a photo album of St. Nicholas Orphanage and the rural agricultural projects.
The orphanage has acknowledged our contribution by putting our logo (below) on the girls' dormitory. Here is the background story on one family cared for by the orphanage. "Muzuzio's two older brothers came to us when their mother, an African from Malawi, came to see us. Her parents were both dead and her husband, a police officer, had died from complications of AIDS about a year previously.
The parent organization, Makeni Ecumenical Centre, has a website, and a supporter in the UK has set up a blog. |
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