Welcome to the new site for the Harare Children's Home. The site is currently under construction but should have lots of pictures and information on how to donate very soon.
The Harare Children's Home aims to provide a place of safety for its children, looking after their needs and helping them grow into independent adults. It strives to receive and care for necessitous children of either sex, regardless of religious denomination or nationality. The home also endeavors to provide education for the children.
The children who come to the home are from a wide variety of social backgrounds. These are children that have been abandoned, abused in numerous ways, or are children whose parents are alcoholic, imprisoned, mentally impaired, violent or deceased. Upon arrival, some of the children admitted to the home are HIV positive and / or severely malnourished, asthmatic or suffer from skin diseases and other ailments. All the children are referred by the Government Department of Social Welfare.
The home takes newly born babies and older children. Girls are looked after until they are 20, and boys until they are 10. As the home does not have the facilities to look after boys after this age, they must then move on to other children's homes. Before the girls are to leave, the home makes every effort to provide them with training in any area which each particular girl shows special abilities (i.e. sewing, catering, computers, business studies, horticulture, secretarial studies etc).
