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 centres located in 5 countries and our programs provide education, nutrition, shelter, and healthcare to over 7,500 children.
OUR MISSION: To bring lasting hope to vulnerable children by providing them with love and holistic care so that they embrace adulthood as contributing members of society.
OUR VISION: All children are loved and cared for.
We believe in providing holistic (emotional, intellectual, physical, social, spiritual) and loving care to vulnerable children. We do this through our various programs, which are offered at each of our locations.
We provide education, nutrition, and healthcare to over 4,100 children throughout Africa. We also provide Shelter for children who do not have a safe place to live.
Click here to learn more about our programs.
We are currently located in 5 countries throughout Africa:
Click here to learn more about each of our locations.
Villages of Hope Africa values all children and believes that every child has the right to protection from all forms of abuse. Our child protection policy is the first step to ensuring all our locations are child-friendly and safe. We believe “Every Child is Everyone’s Child.”
We are committed to providing safe and secure environments for each child under our care by ensuring that all staff, volunteers, children and stake-holders follow the written child protection policy.
Our child protection policy describes what we do to protect children from harm. We believe it is our responsibility to protect all children in our care.
Download a copy of our Child Protection Policy Manual HERE.
You can sponsor a Village of Hope child and help us provide them with education, health care, and other basic needs.
For more information, visit our Child Sponsorship page.
The first Village of Hope in Kitwe, Zambia was opened in 1999, as a response to the HIV/Aids pandemic that left many children vulnerable.
It is located next to Racecourse, a large shanty compound teeming with children. The site began with free education for children of the nearby community who had no other access to education, and a children’s home to provide care for children who have nowhere else to live. This first VOH location grew from one children’s home and a single classroom into a fully functional care facility for children in need in Zambia.
With the success of VOH Kitwe, national and international support for its approach was received. With the growing need for similar Children’s centres in other sub-Saharan countries, the work expanded from Zambia to Zimbabwe, Malawi, Burundi and Tanzania.
Branching out to multiple centres created a need for an umbrella organization under which they would all fall and thus, in 2004, the Villages of Hope: Africa Society was formed. This organizational union ensures that quality childcare standards are established and met at each Village of Hope. It also helps each Village of Hope acquire essential financial and human resources and it facilitates working relationships between all Villages of Hope and their surrounding communities.
