Growing Season
Update Zambia | House of Faith Orphanage | Silembe, Zambia
From Linda Jones in Zambia: Our visit this week to House of Faith was a good one. We found the children’s field popping with newly planted maize (corn). We have had several days of good rains this week and everything is now green and growing. The children planted right after our first good rain. They will be planting sunflower right after Christmas.
Keep their efforts in your prayers as we show them what is needed to feed themselves in life.
HISTORY: We began development at the location for HOFO in 2007 in an area called Silembe. This village is located approximately 90 minutes North-Northwest from Kalomo, Zambia. There were no structures on the land; only a vision of what could be created to serve orphaned children.
In August 2007 we established a water source by drilling a well and construction began in earnest at that time. We received our first child, Sibajane Mudenda, on March 14, 2008, who was received into our 1st home.
Since this time we have received over 60-orphans, and care for 52-orphans from this campus today. At HOFO we have invested $200,000 in capital development, received over a dozen work teams to invest their time and resources in this work, employed dozens of local workers for construction, and today employ 12 Zambian Nationals for the care of the children.
Our HOFO campus today consist of 6 homes where we can host 12 children and a housemom, an under-roof kitchen and laundry facility, 1-latrine per 3 homes (boys and girls), 2 under-roof playgrounds, a transition home, a teacher’s home, 2-water wells, and a Community Center. This Community Center consist of one large class room, 3 dormitory rooms able to host up to 18 people, and a director’s apartment.
In addition, we have established maize fields, gardens, chicken facilities, an area for livestock, and have fenced-in a large portion of the almost 30-acres that encompasses House of Faith Orphanage.
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NEED: Zambia is a country of nearly 14 million people with an orphan population of approximately 1.4 million. Many of these children remain with extended family and most of these extended families have biological children as well. Ultimately, when resources don’t allow for food, clothing, and education as needed, these orphan children are last in line -not having the same rights as the other children.
Through October 2016 we have provided funding of $818,658 that has been invested in capital infrastructure, program development, and for the care of the children. Today we serve 300 children in Zambia through various means; home-based care, foster care, education scholarships, and feeding programs.
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