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Latest News (dec. 2006),
The Door of Hope... (read more) Door of Hope
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Hundreds of children are orphaned or abandoned in Malawi everyday. HIV/AIDS has reached epidemic levels. Mothers who have contracted HIV often die during child birth. Those that don't die, often abandon their children in the hope that they will be found by someone who will be able to care for them. The extended family, once so prevalent in the African culture, has been eroded due to poverty and HIV/AIDS.
This has left an enormous burden on those remaining. Kondanani, a non-governmental Christian organization, was established in November 1998 to offer hope to the orphaned children of Malawi.

The activities of Kondanani where launched by the former president of the republic of Malawi, his excellency Dr. Bakili Muluzi. The first baby was admitted to "Caring Hands infant home" on the November 7th, 1998.

Kondanani has now (September 2006) three children's homes/villages:

There are 125 children in total (September 2006), all below the age of 8. In ten years time we see 600 children at Kondanani.
Currently Kondanani's head office is situated at Madalo children's village.

The need for the establishment of the orphanage arose due to the high rate of HIV/aids infection in the country, which robbed many children of their parents. The extended family system had collapsed, and HIV had become the single largest cause of death among Malawians between the ages of 15-49 years, the child bearing years for women.
Due to the fact that many other orphanages would not admit babies because of the cost, and that it is labour intensive, Kondanani embarked on admitting such babies rather than leave them to die in the villages.

Our criteria is that all our children must come from poor families. Only babies below the age of 6 months are admitted. Every child is either affected or infected by the HIV/aids pandemic.

Our mission statement is: Belonging, love, care and education.
Our motto is: We don't keep children, but love and care for children.

More houses, including a high school, trade school and whatever else is necessary for the education of the children. Higher education such as university will be also on these premises with residences for the students. This project can be expanded and more staff is needed in order to meet this need.

Finally, Kondanani runs like a well oiled machine. We have a large number of Malawian staff working with us. The employment of just one person in Malawi, supports on average, 10 people within their extended family. We have 10 volunteers from the UK, Australia, Holland and South Africa on staff, who are all self supporting.
We are registered under the laws of Malawi as a non-governmental organisation, registered and a paid up member of Congoma, which is the umbrella body for ngo's. Membership is a legal requirement. We work according to the laws of the republic of Malawi in every area of the work and we work with each member of staff according to the labour laws of Malawi.

We have a proper accounting system to ensure that it is simple to give account of the finances and we have full documentation of our children from the day they arrived to date, including birth certificates and all medical records.

Thank you for taking the time to read about our work at Kondanani.

Donations can be made to Kondanani by means of this link to the Faith Christian Fellowship International Church Inc. Choose at this site "Annie Chikhwaza-Malawi" and make your donation. Thanks a lot!!

We now have a
UK Bank Account
If you would like to make a donation please send cheques made payable to Kondanani UK sending it to
Richard Pearson
21, Cradley Road, Netherton, West Midlands, DY2 9RA, United Kingdom
PLEASE ENCLOSE YOUR DETAILS SENT IN CAPITAL LETTERS
AS WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR EACH GIFT  

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