"I grew up in the Living Water Children Center in safety. I call it a wonder that I can now go to university." (Athuman Juma, Student in Dar Es Salam)

Orphanages

Step 4: We build orphanages to create a home for children in acute need and danger.

Preferably, we take care of orphans in their existing neighbourhoods. Frequently, however, children live alone without relatives, or with their HIV-suffering mothers or old grandmothers who cannot take care of them anymore. Also, if threatened by violence and abuse accommodation in one of our orphanages is often the only option.

Canaan orphanage	Living Water Orphanage
Orphanage for HIV-positive Children	Orphanage for children living in poverty
46 children and youth	100 children and youth
Project partner: Catholic Church	Projectpartner LWCC
Schooling at Yakini Schools	Integrated Primary and Secondary/Highschool

Canaan Orphanage

The Canaan Center orphanage is a home for 45-50 HIV-positive and not infected Children in need. They live in mixed groups to avoid stigma. Especially children who have been infected by their parents have difficulties to find homes and foster families. With an adequate care and medication and a good health care those children have a good chance for a quite normal life - despite their infection.

The Canaan Center orphanage for HIV-positive children was initiated and funded by „Partnerschaft für Afrika“ and supporters. It is a safe and nice home for children in need with competent care. Due to the growing number and age of the children, we started in 2023 the extension, remodelling and renovation project in order to bring the center in a sustainable future.

Schoolgarden, chicken-banda, mushroom production and rabbit breeding support the healthy food supply and sustainable income for the center. The center consists of 4 dormitories, kitchen and dining hall, sanitary facilities and staff rooms. The soccer field is at the center of the nicly designed compound.

The Center was opened in 2013 and since then we keep on developping it. After more than ten years of operation and due to the growing number of children, we decided to extend the center by two buildings - one new boys dormitory and a Kindergarden. Also a remodelling and renovation project helps to bring the Center well into a sustainable future.

Living Water Orphanage

The "Living Water Children Centre" (LWCC) is THE place of refuge for children in need of all kind. Our project partners regularly seek and find children who require our support. Additional children are sent to the orphanage through the Catholic church. the church, we send out some children into this orphanage.

The Living Water orphanage was established by the Tanzanian family Kimaro in 2002 and has been supported by us since 2005. Until 2017, roughly 100 orphans were supported and looked after. In 2017, a shutdown was decreed by the new government because the terrain of the orphanage did not have the required size.

As a consequence, we have built a new orphanage with our project partner LWCC, and with the support of our donors (private) and sponsors (in particular Sternstunden e.V.). Roughly 90 percent of the cost for the new orphanage have been mobilized to date. Other organizations contributed to the remaining needs and funded a Family-House and contributed to the construction of a dormitory (time2help).

2019 the new orphanage could commence operations, and the first children could move in.

The new orphanage is currently conceived for 100 children but can be extended further. It consists of two dormitories, rest room facilities for 50 boys and 50 girls. It has a large playground as well as a Family House for staff and children. Kitchen and dining facilities are available on the same compound. The new orphanage is adjacent to the two Yakini schools run by the LWCC.

This way, we have now created an integrated complex that is able to accommodate orphans and ensures schooling at primary and secondary levels. Everything in one hand, and situation on one compound.

We require donations from our child-support program for tuitions, school-material, school-uniforms and transportation. Furthermore, we support investment needs and extensions of the Canaan Centre on a regular basis

Orphanage-Farm

An important step to reduce the dependency of our centre/schools from donations is self-sufficiency of food. Our goal is always to ensure help to self-help. Thanks to private sponsorships we could buy land to grow necessary staple food for the children and, thus, reduce the financial burden for the orphanage/schools. Moreover, the farm project offers the possibility for job-seeking teenagers to help during vacation time or to learn additional practical things (see also Job Training-Centre).

Within the last 12 months, no man's land has been converted into a well-run farm that also offers training possibilities for teenagers.