NAMUMU ORPHANAGE CENTRE
ZAMBIA

Namumu Orphanage Centre is a community-based program in Siavonga, Zambia with 80 children in residence. The Zambian Social Welfare Department has placed most of these children at the center.

The program at Namumu emphasizes developing self-reliance in the children, who are mostly orphans. They are taught practical skills, such as fishing, gardening and tending pigs, as well as class work. There is also a Namumu community school which has now become a regional magnet. All 27 of the students who wrote their grade 7 examination passed! The success rate of 100% is unheard of outside the elite private academies. The moral is very high and so is the community support.

Gifts through the Outreach Foundation have enabled the centre to start income generating activities including fishing, gardening, a hammer mill, and carpentry. These activities will generate a supplement of income for program operations and feeding of the children at Namumu. This is a dream come true for Namumu’s director, Elder Munjongo, and the staff at Namumu. Funds for operations of the orphanage and school, and to support HIV/AIDS community programs are immediate needs for the work at Namumu.

To learn more about the Namumu Orphanage, click on the links below to view videos about the orphanage.
Produced by James Neihouse and narrated by Frank Warlick.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTQCCy4VvQQ&layer_token=3af92021d88ca4aa
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqsMWyFvryk&layer_token=d90502390c005136