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Site last edited December 2, 2008

Advocates for Africa’s Children, Inc., P.O. Box 283 233, Honolulu, HI  96828

Our Mission

To empower African churches to care for orphans holistically in their communities and to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic.


What We Do

  1. 1. Care and feeding of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC’s) through local churches

  2. 2. Self-sustainable projects to provide nutrition and other needs of OVC’s

  3. 3. Vegetable gardens to provide nutrition for OVC’s and to teach them farming skills

  4. 4. HIV/AIDS prevention program

  5. 5. Clean water


Our Current Projects


  1. BulletHlobane has a corn mill to grind dried corn into meal. Corn meal is the staple food in Swaziland. Proceeds from the mill are used to provide food, clothing, and education for the community’s orphans.


  1. BulletNsindatje Dairy and Poultry Farm provides milk and eggs to OVC’s in the community. In Proceeds from the sale of extra milk and eggs is used to provide food, clothing, and education for orphans and vulnerable children. Well for clean water has substantially reduced diarrhea and skin infections in the village.


  1. BulletMgambeni started a poultry farm in June 2008. They are giving eggs to OVC’s to improve their nutrition, and use proceeds from the sale of broiler chickens to orphaned children. This project is being undertaken with partner organization Seventy-Two. A clean water well is currently being installed.


  1. BulletMayaloza Poultry farm to produce eggs and income to support community OVC’s.


  1. BulletLife Bible Church well installed December 2008.


The Reason

Every hour 356 people die of AIDS. More than 70% of HIV/AIDS infected people live in Africa. Today there are 14 million orphaned children due to AIDS in Africa alone. This is expected to grow to more than 42 million in the next four years.


Why Swaziland?

As of 2004, Swaziland had the highest HIV infection rate in the world, leaving behind an estimated 100,000 orphans in a country with just under 1 million people. With AIDS taking so many of the family breadwinners and parents, too many orphans are left to fend for themselves. They are hungry and malnourished. Boys and girls resort to exchanging sex for a meal. Provision of basic necessities give the children hope for a better future and prevents abuse.


For stories and pictures from our missions, visit our Photo pages and Blog.

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