Children's Profiles
Take a moment to consider what might happen to children when no-one is left to care for them?
Here in KwaZulu-Natal we are faced with the ever growing problem of children being orphaned or abandoned, with no-one to care for them. Current statistics estimate that there are as many as 3.4 million orphans in South Africa. (If all of these children were to hold hands, they would form a line all the way from Durban to Cape Town and half-way back again.) Just over a quarter of these orphans and abandoned children live in kwaZulu Natal.
Communities are no longer able to cope with this number of uncared for children. Government welfare organisations are buckling under the pressure. Could you walk away from these children in need? No, we could not either!
Here at Mother of Peace we are fortunate enough to have the infrastructure to take in those children who have nowhere else to go, to take care of them when nobody else can.
We provide family homes for children in need, where they are provided the structure of a home and family. Language and culture are maintained as far as possible and children are brought up to be responsible members of society.
At the moment Mother of Peace Illovo takes care of over 70 children:
Click here to view our Sponsor A Child Information Form
These are our children- divided into the houses that they stay in.
