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  Alpha Cottages Scheme

  Alpha Cottages Scheme Children’s Home is a Masvingo Community run institution which offers shelter, food, and education etc to orphans and vulnerable children. It was established in 1957 by a lady teacher Helen MacGhie and initially catered for the coloured, Indian and Asian communities in line with the discrimination practiced back then. It was registered as a Private Voluntary Organisation (P.V.O) in 1967. It is situated in Masvingo city along Mutare Road opposite Helen MacGhie Primary School about 2 km from the city centre.

  Alpha Cottages Children’s Home accommodates 28 children. The Home caters for children between the ages of 3-18 years. Cases referred to the home by the Department of Social Development range from abandonment, abuse (physical, sexual, emotional) and neglected. It caters for orphans and vulnerable children across Zimbabwe irrespective of gender, creed, colour or social background.

  The family has 3 house units (House A, B,C). The home runs a family unit model of a children’s home whereby children (ideal a maximum of 10) are accommodated in one house under the care of a care giver. The children are selected and placed in each house according to age differences to represent a proper family set up. The family does its own chores. This provides them with exposure to normal life training that will make them adapt to the outside environment and to prevent them from becoming social misfits when they get discharged from the home.

  The Home provides psycho-social support programs aimed at restoring the psychosocial functioning of the children at the institution. The social workers together with caregivers and other stakeholders assist each other in making sure that children’s wellbeing is enhanced. The home makes sure that children at the institution socialise with other children from outside the institution. socialisation is one of the mechanisms used by the institution to help integrate the children with the wider society and it helps them cope with psycho-social problems.

  It also provides children with life skills training programs to help equip them with knowledge of the outside world and the skills needed for one to survive after been discharged from the home. These life skills training programs emanates from the projects being done at the institution and the projects includes market gardening, grinding mill and chicken projects. Although these projects are done on a scale, children can learn and get equipped on the necessary skills that will help them in the near future. Henceforth, there is need to conduct these projects on a large scale and have a wide variety of projects to broaden the horizon the knowledge of children.

  counselling sessions are also available to children facing different challenges. Most of the children who resides at the home are brought to the attention of the institution due to different challenges, some that may have disturbed their mental wellbeing, dignity and self-esteem or manipulated their behaviors negatively. Therefore, there is need to conduct these counselling sessions in order to restore their mental wellbeing as well as modifying their behavior.

  Prize giving functions are also conducted to help motivate children to do well in their academics and to carry their responsible duties as per tasked effectively. This reward system program equips children to work hard and perform well in their daily activities. It is also a way to help modify children’s behaviors as they live at the institution.

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  Chiedza Child Care

  Chiedza is a community-based NGO registered with the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Development in 2003, PVO 58/23. It was established in 2001 by concerned professionals and citizens of Zimbabwe in response to the devastating impact of HIV and AIDS on children and families. They were touched by an increasing number of orphans as a result of AIDS-related deaths. With the advent of antiretroviral therapy, the organisation continued to adapt, responding to the impact of HIV and AIDS on children and their families.

  i) Education – providing early childhood education services to at least 30 children between the ages of 4 to 6 years annually. Chiedza has a registered ECD center for orphans and vulnerable children in Ardbenie. Chiedza additionally provides catch up lessons for at least 200 children from the ages of 8 to 18 years who are out of school. The children attend lessons at the center and are provided with meals through the support offered by Higherlife Foundation. Chiedza pays pay school fees for children who were once out of school and are reintegrated into formal schools up to tertiary level.

  ii) Vocational Training – Supporting young people to undergo vocational training through working with established centers. At least 40 young people are being supported.

  iii) Formal Tertiary – Those who successfully go through the out of school program up to tertiary level are supported with tuition. Chiedza has 9 learners in various state universities.

  iv) Protection – Chiedza provides counselling, conducts parenting sessions, facilitates birth registration and supports abused children and those at risk of abuse through case management.

  v) Health and Nutrition – Chiedza supports children living with HIV with medical support, food packs and facilitate support groups through working with local clinics. They also conduct health assessments for children and provide hot meals for at least 200 children learning at the center 5 days a week, during school terms.

  vi) Economic Strengthening – Parents and caregivers are trained in group savings and specific income generating skills. Reaches at least 200 parents annually.

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  Bonda Children’s Home

  Bonda Mission Children’s Home is an institution that was founded by the Community of the Holy Transfiguration situated at St. David’s Bonda Mission in 1992. It is within the Anglican Diocese of Manicaland. Bonda Children’s Home is a private voluntary organisation and is located at Bonda Mission in Mutasa District of Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe. The day-to-day running is managed by Anglican Sisters with the support of the Mission religious leaders. Currently the home is housing 15 children, 7 boys, 8 girls.

  The Home caters for children, starting a the age of 5 with the maximum retention age of 18 years. All the children brought to the Home come through the Department of Social Development. The mandate of the Home is to give due care to all children in care making sure they are safe and attended to.

  Objectives

  • To receive and retain children in need of care.
  • Providing safe shelter, food, clothing, and other necessities for children in care.
  • Provision of parental guidance and counseling to the children in care.
  • Provide psychosocial support to children in care.
  • Imparting various life skills to children.
  • Facilitating children’s education and ensuring that they remain healthy.

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