UPCOMING EVENTS: Evenings of Hope
Join us for our 2019 Evenings of Hope tour! We will be in Kelowna, Winnipeg, Ladner, Ottawa, Newmarket, Vancouver, Langley, and Comox from September 27 - November 1st. Come and enjoy dinner, fellowship, and testimonies from VOH alumni!
Child Sponsorship
We commit to helping vulnerable children escape the burden of poverty by providing long-lasting hope in a loving and safe environment. Each VOH location provides education, nutrition, and healthcare. Working closely with local social welfare offices, we also provide shelter for children who have no safe place to live. Child sponsorship helps us provide quality …
Our Villages
We currently work in 10 locations throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Our Villages are in Burundi, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Each village provides nutrition, education, healthcare, and shelter. Find out more about our programs Our Locations Click the links below to learn more about each Village. Bujumbura, Burundi Maramvya, Burundi (info coming soon!) Kauma, Malawi Chongwe, …
Bringing Hope Project
Our Bringing Hope photo project is about celebrating the new found hope VOH children have and supporting their dreams for the future. Thanks to our work and support from our donors, VOH children are beginning to see hope for their futures once again, and with that hope comes something else: dreams. Within these dreams lies …
About VOH Africa
Villages of Hope: Africa Society (VOH Africa) is a Canadian charitable organization registered with the CRA (Registration #84950 3073 RR0001) bringing hope to children in need throughout Africa.
We have 10 villages located in 5 countries and our programs provide education, nutrition, shelter, and healthcare to the children in our care.
Mission & Vision
Our mission is to bring lasting hope to orphans and vulnerable children throughout Africa by providing them with holistic (emotional, intellectual, physical, social, spiritual) and loving care so they can embrace adulthood as contributing members of society.
Our vision is that all children are loved and cared for.
Projects
Education
According to UNICEF, most orphans and vulnerable children have their education interrupted due to life circumstances. We respond to these critical issues by providing free education from preschool to grade 12. The schools also provide the opportunity to be involved in sports, music and other extra-curricular activities providing a well-rounded education for the students. Attending school brings hope for a future to each VOH child.
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Nutrition
According to a UNICEF study on nutrition, households affected by HIV/AIDS experience a drop in food consumption, which puts children (orphans in particular) at a higher risk of malnutrition. Additionally, a 2013 study found the introduction of school feeding programs resulted in an increase of annual attendance from 69% to 98%. Through our feeding programs we offer nutrition daily. Through this program, we can prevent malnutrition from inhibiting the development and education of the children in our care.
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Healthcare
The United Nations states, “Children whose parents have already died are disadvantaged in numerous and often devastating ways….They are likely to be poorer and less healthy than non-orphans.” We provide free medical care to over 2000 children. Several of our Villages have on-site clinics that provide basic medical care and where there is not yet a clinic, the children are taken to local clinics and their costs are covered. Knowing they have help when they are sick brings tremendous relief to the VOH children.
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Shelter
The vision of Villages of Hope Africa is to see children loved and cared for so they will ultimately embrace adulthood as independent and contributing members of society. Our children’s homes help us achieve this vision. If a child is left with no relative or guardian who can provide a home for them, we have community-based homes where they can live in a safe and loving environment. A maximum of eight children live in each home and every home has a house mother who lives with the children full time.
