The Okalawo Children’s Village provides long-term family care and education for vulnerable or orphaned children in Zambezia, addressing the need for stability amid high mortality rates from diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria. Currently, the village educates children from Grade 1 to Grade 4, with new cluster homes soon able to support 48 children and six house mothers. The village clinic also serves both the children and local families from surrounding communities.
The Okalawo Children’s Village is a community within the community where vulnerable and/ or orphaned children are placed into new families where they receive long-term care in every aspect of their lives.
The village was born out of the tremendous need for more permanent care and education for the children in Zambezia, who are significantly impacted by the high mortality rates related to viruses and diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, which cause an increase in the trafficking of vulnerable children.
The Okalawo Children’s Village currently educates children from Grade 1 through to Grade 4, and our residential homes have an ever-increasing number of residents. The completion of our first cluster homes will allow us to care for 48 orphaned and/or vulnerable children together with six house mothers.
The village clinic is in operation and is serving all our children and their families in the surrounding communities.
We work with all our families. However, we are currently working intensively with three of our
highly vulnerable families with entrepreneurial skills training and small business initiatives that help to keep families together.
The Peace School, an outreach of the local church in Namuinho, provides holistic education and daily nutritious meals to nearly 500 children from Grades 1 to 6. Alongside core academics, students receive training in agriculture and animal care to enhance future income opportunities for themselves and their families. Emphasizing spiritual, moral, and physical well-being, the school invests in the overall health of each child and the wider community.
The Peace School is an extension of the local church in the community of Namuinho, where it reaches out to vulnerable and/or orphaned children.
The school has a holistic approach to education, and each child also receives a nutritious meal on a daily basis. We currently educate almost 500 children from Grade 1 to Grade 6.
The school also offers skills training in agriculture and animal care as part of the curriculum, in order to broaden the students’ opportunities for future income generation, for themselves and their families. The spiritual and moral development of each child is vital for value change, laying the foundation for a brighter future. Public and school health care is very important as we invest into the overall wellbeing of each child, family and the greater community.
Plans include building three clusters of residential homes, a multi-purpose community hall, and developing agriculture on land next to the children’s village. Completion of the school to Grade 8 and a new sports field will further support children’s education and recreation.
To include 3 clusters of residential homes built so we can care for more children. Building of the community hall, which will be a multi-purpose facility.
The development of agriculture and animal husbandry on the new land adjacent to the children’s village.
Completion of the school to facilitate the education of children from Grade 1 to Grade 8.
A new sports field for the children to play and enjoy recreational sports.
We plan to purchase land to expand Life Child Mozambique Peace School with additional classrooms and plant Moringa trees around the property. A new lab for Moringa production will also be built, utilizing the tree’s medicinal benefits to support community health.
Purchase more land for the expansion of Life Child Mozambique Peace School to enable the building of more classrooms.
The extensive planting of Moringa trees around the property and the construction of a new lab for Moringa production (the leaves from the Moringa tree have multiple medicinal benefits and can help save lives).
