Welcome to

V I M B A I N E S U

Children’s Home

Let us introduce our home to you:

We live in Zimbabwe, a country in Southern Africa, bordering on South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique.

Vimbainesu means “you can count on us.” The home is built on communal land about 1 hour outside of Harare. Many feel it has become a model orphan community, incorporated into the surrounding rural area. The home itself is built to look and function just like many other African living arrangements. There are 6 round huts built in a large circle around a central hut. In each of the 6 huts live 3 children. The Central Hut if the place for the “Parents” of the Orphanage. All the cooking and communal activities take place in the central hut. This model of a traditional African family style housing arrangement works well for the children of Vimbainesu. They grow up like their classmates in the village, they are part of their own culture, and when they become adults they are well prepared for life in rural Zimbabwe. But in the meantime there is time for learning and play….

Unfortunately Vimbainesu is only the tip of an iceberg. The World Health Organization and UNAIDS estimate that due to the ever increasing AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa, approximately 600,000 orphans live in Zimbabwe. Most are still taken care of by "extended family support systems."