VisionHealthy and happy orphans in Mzuzu.
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MissionTo assist St.Mark's Church in Mzuzu to improve the welfare of 250 impoverished children from AIDS afflicted families.
When the Mzuzu AIDS Orphan Care Committee (MAOCP) began more than fifteen years ago, our mission was to assist the Orphan Care Committee of St. Mark's Church in Mzuzu to provide one substantial, nutritious meal once a week for 250 children from AIDS afflicted families. This has been accomplished.
Building on this success, our mission has expanded to include the feeding of some thirty elderly impoverished orphan guardians, and the provision of daily rations of a specially formulated diet for those children who are known to have the HIV virus.We also provide the children with personal hygiene items, blankets, mosquito nets, and health and dental care. Technical training is provided to the older children in the form of tin-smithing and tailoring, and formal education of eligible students through the provision of secondary school fees and other education related support. Emergency support has also been provided to children which the community as identified as being needy. |
Mandate
In the summer of 2005, The Reverend Canon Peter Walker of St.Peter's received an appeal from Archdeacon James Chifisi of St Mark's in Mzuzu, Malawi. Father Chifisi's church was attempting to feed 250 AIDS orphans once a month but could not meet the financial requirements to do this. Our Mzuzu AIDS Orphans' Feeding Program was our response to this appeal. The remarkable success of this program has meant that we have been able to develop programs to help these children in health care and education and meet many crisis situations that these little ones meet on a daily basis.