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PROJECTS
There are quite a number of projects being carried out at the Children’s Home and some to be pursued as soon as partners are identified. Critical among them being the repairing of the current children’s houses, below is a list of all the projects
and their descriptions:
Repair and renovations of the current structures
The farm does have a set up of six villages each with cluster thatched huts housing foster families of 15 to 20 children each. Given that the roofing is
thatched grass, that poses danger to the safety of the children in many different ways. Sometime in 2000 a veld fire razed down an entire village with a toddler escaping death miraculously. Some of the villages are no longer habitable as the thatched grass has been peeling off, given that thatching was done long ago. For the villages under occupation, there is urgent need to redo the plumbing, maintenance and repairing of windows and doors.
New Children's Houses 
The village shelter is being transformed into a modern form by doing away with thatched huts. The African village concept will be maintained but instead of having a separate hut for bedrooms, separate hut for toilet and bathroom, separate hut for the parents and separate hut for the kitchen, the family will be
accommodated in one modern house with tinned roof with large lounge/dining,
three bedrooms for the children and en-suite bedroom for the parents and kitchen/pantry plus a separate open grass thatched kitchen/gazebo where cooking can be done outside using firewood.
Up to ten such houses are required to improve capacity of the current set up. Already one such house has been finished and two others are now getting finishing touches. We are therefore appealing to building partners to help us complete the whole project and move from the old risk prone settlement to the new safe site.
Skills Training Centre 
The objectives for setting up a skills training
center at Manhinga is to ensure that children who complete their O-Levels or A-Levels are given the opportunity to enter into vocational and skills training to
equip them for employment while preparing them for full integration into society. The skills training
center will be open to youth from surrounding areas and those from other
orphanages. It will operate on the basis of linkages with other more established institutions in diverse fields such as hotel and catering, farm management, brick laying, secretarial, dressmaking,
carpentry, short computer courses, book keeping etc. We await contribution in consultancy from academics for the establishment of this project.
Farm Development 
The village occupy a 381ha farm, a dam for irrigation, small pine and gum tree plantation and a considerable herd of cattle. We require the services agriculture experts to evaluate the full capacity of the farm and recommend viable projects.
Conference and Corporate Events Facility
It is generally known that the region under which Manhinga falls is endowed with beautiful environs that make it appealing for site viewing, conferences and tours away from bustling city life. Thus we are seeking volunteers with skills that can assist us develop an area which we have identified within the farm for such
purposes. It is really a scenic environment and pictures can be downloaded from our website. The
background picture of balanced rocks on this brochure is actually from Manhinga
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Our Vision
To provide a home and to nurture children in a Christian environment.
This we believe will give hope, security and love thereby producing
citizens who can be of value to the nation
Our Mission
The mission is to nurture and bring up the children in a Christian home environment with the aim of building up self-esteem, confidence and self-reliance within the child.
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