Projects We Fund 

Orphfund responds to requests we receive from individuals and small community groups from all around the world.

We aim to assist areas that are in great need and help reach out to children where support networks do not already exist.

With every project our aim is to create a Children's Community Village. These villages offer original and complete care for orphans and abandoned children. They create an environment that takes steps away from traditional orphanages by moving towards a more family based approach.

We build traditional homes that house a family of children with a care worker. They form the nucleus of each village with primary schools, water pumps, play rooms, eating halls, shower blocks, toilets, gardens and farms formed around the perimeter.

Our villages have provided communities we have worked alongside with facilities for vulnerable children for the very first time. They are welcomed with much excitement from the local people and provide children with a happy and safe environment in which to grow.

An Orphfund project aims to

  • Provide children with a place they can call their home
  • Give access to primary school education to all children
  • Help children of secondary school age to continue their schooling
  • Provide clean drinking water
  • Improve the health of orphans and vulnerable children by running regular health checks and                                                                     assiting with any medical needs
  • Provide children with a nutritional diet
  • Develop childrens skills through training
  • Provide support and care
  • Provide clothing, toiletries and other needs


 

Self Sufficeincy

Each project aims to be self sustaining within 2 years of opening, and is achieved through local enterprise and investment schemes. This provides an ownership and empowerment to the local community and avoids aid projects that simply continue to throw money without solving the problems. In each program we place emphasis on developing farms, rice plantations and gardens all of which help us grow food and produce internally. We also establish small businesses to generate a local income that is fed directly back into our centres. More details can be found in our project pages.

The Children

The children we help are those we find to be receiving extremely inadeqate care, they come to us in a very poor, malnourished condition and come from families that cannot simply provide enough basic care. In many cases the children are forced to work, miss school and care for older relatives. The children we help come from these main groups

  • Step children who are often abandoned and neglected.
  • Complete orphans who live in dire circumstances with sick or elderly grandparents.
  • Children who have no one left to turn to and care for themselves and their siblings.
  • Children who have lost one parent and remain in the care of a sick or handicapped adult.
  • Children in abusive homes.

In all cases we aim to keep a child within their family circle whenever possible. We never seek to split a child away from a parent, unless it is the only positive action that benefits both parties. In all cases we encourage all of the children we help to return to any existing family members they may have on holidays to ensure family bonds, support and traditions can continue.

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