Mothers for Orphans

Following our visit to Zimbabwe to enroll our 2011 students, this site is now updated to include new photos and sponsorship opportunities. Please consider sponsoring a child. You can change a child's life, forever!

We have been educating Zimbabwean AIDS orphans since 2006. This year we are assisting over 220 orphans and as always, we welcome your help. View our Animoto video here.

“There are about 1.6 million children (in Zimbabwe) that are orphaned and made vulnerable mainly due to HIV and AIDS” (Ref: First Report of the Senate Thematic Committee on HIV and Aids and Access to Treatment). Less than 4,000 of these are cared for in registered orphanages. 

The 'fortunate' are cared for by grandmothers or other relatives.  Alternatively, older orphans may look after younger siblings in the family home, receiving food from neighbours for working in the fields.  Less fortunate orphans move to the larger cities and towns where they support themselves through begging, prostitution and petty crime.  This humanitarian disaster is huge, but not hopeless.

Orphanages are very expensive to operate and isolate children from their relatives denying them the comfort and support that belonging to an extended family may bring.  Mothers for Orphans believes that the most effective way to assist large numbers of orphans is to strengthen existing extended families and other social structures.

Your gift can rescue an orphan from a lifetime of poverty.  Help us equip them to make their dreams come true!  A donation of $180 will sponsor a child's education for a whole year.  Sponsorships may be made through this site or email us to arrange regular quarterly payments.