Jambula Children’s Centre

This small mud house to the left is the home of a family of five, children together with their parents. The adjacent small room to the right is the latrine. When the latrine is full, the sewage is released to join the main water channel.

Despite the high population density, these children live as a community in this slum area, like you can see one of them has just returned from school. Very few of them have the opportunity to go to school. They also love pets, like you can see below. They currently  have two dogs as their pets, if there was enough room, we have no doubt they would have many more. Like you can see, their buildings are old, weak and rumschackled. Our dream is to build this community.

The Jambula zone has a poor drainage system, the houses are pooly constructed, leading to stagnant water from the bathrooms and over flowing sewage from pit latrines. Most of the children who live here have lost their parents. They are not in economic position to improve on their settlement. This is also their play ground. Most of them get infected with diseases, and eventually die because they cannot afford medical treatment. Many of them die of malaria, due mosquitoes springing up from the stagnant waters; or worms, due to the poor hygiene in the area; or pneumonia or the common killer diseases because they cannot finance immunisation. On our part we have the challenge to educate and sensitise this community, beginning with the generation of hope - the children. We can not achive this all by ourselves, but only with your support.

The house to the left, which is a home to four families, has been standing the last two decades. Most of the parents of the children living in this house have died of AIDS or they split up a result of domestic violence, living behind helpless children.