Mants'ase Children's Home

This Children's Home is located in Lesotho, South Africa. Traditionally in this culture, the extended family cares for any relatives in need of assistance. Unfortunately, poverty caused this system to begin to break down and some children and babies were left with no one to care for them. With the HIV/AIDS pandemic now sweeping South Africa, this is truer than ever before.

Wage earners are dying at an alarming rate, leaving behind children to families that are already overburdened. There are presently 50 children at the home, but that number is expected to increase as HIV/AIDS escalates.

It is the home’s goal to be able to grow with the increasing need to support more orphans and to provide a safe, healthy, and loving environment for these innocent victims.

Update:

At Mantsase Children's Home, the new dormitory is complete and they
will be moving the children in soon.