Construction Begins on New Orphan Care Center

By Philippe van den Bossche
October 26, 2006

Source: http://www.raisingmalawi.org/rm/05-news.html

Namitete, Malawi - Construction on one of Raising Malawi’s most exciting and important initiatives, the new Consol Homes Raising Malawi Orphan Care Center, is underway.

In October, architects, engineers, management teams, traditional authority leaders and volunteers celebrated the official groundbreaking of the new child care facility, which will serve thousands of orphans and vulnerable children from various villages in and around the Malawian district of Lilongwe.

The architect for the project, Ismael Patel, and the construction company hired to manifest this exciting project, estimate that the new center will be open on or before March 1, 2007.

The new Consol Homes Raising Malawi Orphan Care center will be managed by Consol Homes, a well-respected secular non-governmental, non-profit, community based organization currently serving approximately 12,500 children.

Consol Homes is well known for the creation of the Orphan Affairs Unit, a unique psycho-social program (endorsed and promoted by UNICEF) for orphan children whereby orphans lead, manage and implement programs for other orphans.

The new facility will provide food, education, psycho social programs, vocational skills training, and other important programs to countless children and families in the area.

For more information, please contact Philippe van den Bossche at:
philippe@raisingmalawi.org