Mothers for Orphans

Just one tax deductible (in Australia) donation of $180 to Mothers for Orphans (Madzimai Enherera) Inc will sponsor a child's education for a whole year. Your gift of can rescue an orphan from a life of poverty. Help us equip them to make their dreams come true!

The UN estimates that there are 780,000 children between 0-14 years old orphaned by AIDS in Zimbabwe. 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.