I wanted to update you on what’s been going on at the orphanage in the past few months.
With your help we have not run out of food since August however the challenge of feeding our 46 children is ongoing.
The older girls at ZASO have completed their first year of sewing school. Jessica who helps us with our admin is currently in the process of setting up a small business for us here in Zanzibar using our girls sewing skills and fabric she has had donated. Jessica hopes to get this project started next month so we’ll keep you updated on how this goes. We hope not only that this helps bring money into the orphanage but it will also set our girls up with a career for life.
One of our lovely boys is having eye surgery as we speak. He is just 10 years old and came to us with his brother from Mnemba Island. Abdu, the owner of the orphanage was visiting the island when he met the brothers aged 6 and 8. They had lost their parents as babies and then their grandmother who’d been taking care of them died so they were living alone. They acquired HIV because they were being repeatedly abused by HIV+ men on the island. Despite having no room at the orphanage Abdu found a way to rescue to brothers from Mnemba and bring them home to ZASO. The cost of the eye surgery has eaten into the funds of the orphanage so if you’d like to donate anything at all towards this we’d be hugely grateful.
Here is the link to donate: https://gofund.me/e24fa78f
Thank you for your time and your generosity. We couldn’t do it without you.
All best wishes
The Team at ZASO Children’s home
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