Lesotho, South Africa - Mants'ase
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
Mants'ase has been raising money to build a special room at the Home where sick children can receive special care and also be separated from the other children to decrease the spread of illness.