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Saving Orphans in Swaziland's Malkern's Valley

The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has all but wiped out a generation of parents in Swaziland.

More than 70,000 children have been orphaned – robbed of their childhood, their parents, and their future. These children had no part in the tragedy that has befallen them but they are, as a result, living in squalor and unimaginable suffering.

For the past four years, HOPE International Development Agency has been helping people in the communities of Swaziland’s Malkerns Valley rescue orphaned children and care for them at Neighborhood Care Points.

Neighborhood Care Points were originally established by the people of Malkern’s Valley. Despite their own abject poverty, community members pooled their meager resources, built small shelters of scrap wood and tin, and shared what food and household supplies they could with the orphans they rescued.

Today, through the support of HOPE International Development Agency donors, Neighborhood Care Points are large, sturdy buildings equipped with desks, chairs, blackboards, school supplies and everything else required in order to ensure that orphaned children recover their health and receive the support they need. Community members provide the land and volunteer their time to construct, maintain, and run the facilities.

A gift of $50, $75, or even $100 will help the people of Malkern’s Valley build additional Neighborhood Care Point facilities. Each facility will provide shelter, nutritious meals, clean water, health care, HIV/AIDS prevention, education, and vocational training for older children approaching young adulthood. Vegetable gardens, planted beside the new facilities, will provide an ample supply of nutritious vegetables for the orphans. Each
Neighborhood Care Point will be a place of care for as many as 100 children at any given time.

You can rescue an orphaned child and restore their health and hope. Please give today.