It does not take much to make a difference to the lives of these children and their hard pressed grandma's. A few of us are raising funds to build a family based children's home for these little ones to grow and be cared for. The local chief has allocated us a large piece of land - just off the main road between Mbabane and Manzini in the Ezulwini Valley.

(Land allocated to us)

The Building would take only a couple of months to build, once we have the cash. We have already put in an application to the local council for a grant to fence the land. When we can kkep the goats out we will be able to cultivate vegetables and plant fruit trees.

We will need help with that.

The Vision

That the children will remain in their own community, will grow up being loved and secure and will not join the abandoned children on the streets of South Africa, begging, and worse, to live.

What we need to start

Cash:

We need £25,000 to build the house and another £15,000 to fund running costs for the first two years. It's not much. We have the builder's plans, and the land and a housemother ready and willing.

Please click here to make a donation.

Trustees:

A number of people have agreed to become Trustees to help keep an eye on the charity, to give us moral and practical support and to keep a starteg focus on the way forward.

Will you help?

Will you help us to kick-start this project? We need cash from you: just a little from each one will make a success of this project. Any donation at all will take us a step forward.

We have set up a charity bank account with the Cooperative Bank. The account is free to run except for foreign exchange transactions. We will transfer funds in tranches to the Children's Home registered charity account in Swaziland (to limit the bank charges payable on each foreign transaction).

We will post the Accounts on our website so that everybody can see where the money is spent. We have a qualified accountant in Swaziland who has volunteered to keep the books for us.

You might want to visit - and help out in the garden, give moral support to the house mother, bring toys and clothes and blankets (Swaziland winters can be cold - and it is often rainy). You will be welcome