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.

Summer 2007 Update:

Mantsase Children’s Home in South Africa has also sent us a newsletter with what has been going on there. The children are all well and back at school after a short break over Easter. They have two new little girls, a 10 year old and a 2 year old, which now puts their number of children at 46. They also now have 500 laying hens and getting about 180 eggs per day, and are in hopes of getting up to 400 per day as soon as the chickens settle in. The eggs are used for consumption at the Home and fund raising. They have also been able to buy a cow, which provides fresh milk for the children. However, since it is winter there now, the garden is not doing as well. We have sent them also a total of $1,200.00 for clothing and electricity.