We currently have three mission trips planned for the first half of 2012! For more information on these trips and a general Orphan Care Zimbabwe update, please download the December Partners Update.
Background
- The HIV/AIDS pandemic has created over 15 million orphans in Sub Saharan Africa.
- Sonrise Church is responding to this need by partnering with ACOP churches in Zimbabwe who are caring for hundreds of impoverished children.
- There are over 1,000,000 orphans in Zimbabwe and their plight is heightened by an economy collapsing with five years of famine and a corrupt government.
- In August 2007 a team of eleven people from Sonrise traveled to Zimbabwe to help build an orphan feeding center, to provide funds for food, medicines and schooling and to explore the opportunities for Canadians to help save a generation of Zimbabweans.
- In the last three years, many Canadians have partnered with us to provide food, mecicines, and school fees for orphans being cared for by the ACOP churches of Zimbabwe. In 2010 we were able to resource the care for orphans with just over $100,000! Your donations will continue this help to hundreds of impoverished children.
The Challenge
We are inviting Canadian friends to partner with us to provide care for hundreds of Zimbabwean orphans.
In fact although $32 is an estimate, the funds go much further! In October of 2010, our funds provided food for 689 children. In December of 2010, we resourced funds that paid for January through March semester school fees for 425 children.
Your monthly donation of $32 will provide food and education for one orphan. Please become a partner today with the Sonrise Orphan Care Zimbabwe initiative.
We can help save a generation in Zimbabwe if we act out of compassion to give hope to these friends in their time of distress.
Kadoma
Kadoma is a city about 140km from Harare. They currently care for over 150 orphans and have over 20 care-giver homes which house many of them. They attempt to resource the children to keep them in school. They have a vision for 3 housing units and a feeding center. Teams from Sonrise have built one building on site and have plans for two more in 2011. They have a large garden which allows the children to work to help provide food. Pastor Asmon is the leader of this Orphan Care Center.
Rugare
Rugare is a township in Harare, once home to the railway and many immigrant workers from Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique. At retirement, the men returned to their home country and many left their families behind. The result is that prostitution became the primary source of survival for women and girls, increasing AIDS related deaths to an astounding level.
In 2006, a Canadian team built a feeding center on the Rugare church property to facilitate care for over 200 impoverished children in the township. They have recruited 25 care-giver homes for the orphans’ accommodation and try to help the children stay in school. They serve the porridge for breakfast, and sadsa and beans for lunch at the center.
Musana
Musana is a rural community about a 40 minute drive outside of Harare. ACOP of Zimbabwe started a church in Musana in 2006. They purchased an acre of land beside a community building with a vision to establish a center for orphans called the Oasis of Hope. In the last three years we have helped build a feeding center and church building, a toilets building with a well and water tower, a residence for the pastor/caregiver, and a dormitory. Over 150 children are now served at Musana with a preschool and growing capacity to care for impoverished children.
We also resource centres at Bulaway (56 children), Mbare (77 children), and Wedza (56 children) in Zimbabwe. Additinoally, we help with an orphanage in Chomoio, Mozambique with 60 children living onsite.
We partner with the ACOP of Zimbabwe, which has an executive lead by Apostle Emmanuel Zihove (in Harare) and Pastor Bonani Hadebe (in Bulawayo).
Esiphezini Preschool Project
If you would like to donate to our ongoing Zimbabwe projects, or Orphan Care, please go to Canada Helps and search for ‘Sonrise Church’, and follow the instructions to select the appropriate ministry/designation. Thank you for your support.
