Let me remember you
that, also these beautiful children got very touchable video songs through the
coaching of myself. You can check them through youtube. You’ll enjoy swahili
songs but English subtitled.
SHALOM ORPHANAGE
CENTRE
Shalom Orphanage is a
non-profit organization founded by Mama Warra Nnko in 2004, with a mission to
improve the lives of orphaned, abandoned and disadvantaged children.
Currently
Shalom orphanage is home to 80 children from 0 to 18 years old. 40 of them are
double orphans, having lost both parents.
Shalom’s
heart is to see that all children are shown unconditional love regardless of
religion, tribe or ethnicity. Shalom serves to give these kids a childhood back
and strives to not only give them the basics such as food and shelter, but to
also show them that God has a unique plan for each of their lives. Most of the
children come with several medical problems. Many have HIV/AIDS, mental or
physical disabilities or have suffered severe trauma. Shalom offers healing and
care for these children. More than 1.2 million children in Tanzania have been
orphaned due to AIDS and many carry the disease themselves, requiring special
care and attention that surviving families often fail to provide.
There are 85 children happily growing in Shalom. An average of five new children arrive every year into care at Shalom for various reasons. These include physical and sexual abuse at home, parents addicted to drugs and alcohol, death of both parents, and abandonment due to poverty, gender, disability or illness. Some of the children have been rescued from sex trafficking and forced labor.
Abandonment: Children born to unwed mothers in Tanzania are often subject to brutal abandonment. Some are left by the side of the road, buried in the jungle or tossed away like waste. Unplanned children are the first to fall victim to cruel abandonment and superstitious ritual, such as leaving newborns in the jungle for animals, burying children alive and dumping them at trash sites.
HIV/AIDS: Remains one of the greatest threats in Tanzania, with over 400 new infections every day. Due largely to the AIDS epidemic, the orphan population in Tanzania is staggering.
Poverty: It is estimated that more than a third of households live below the basic needs’ poverty line, earning less than $1 a day, being children at higher risk of abandonment.
This is
how Shalom was born… In 2003, Rev. Nnko and his wife (Mama Warra) from Arusha
were visiting a church in Karatu. They spent the night in a local hostel where
they had planned to rest and then make the three-hour drive back the next
morning. The night was cold and rainy. During the night, Mama Warra heard a
faint sound at their door and there laid a newborn baby boy. They rushed him to
the nearest hospital and stayed at the child’s side that night. The next
morning, they had to leave for Arusha, but Mama Warra gave the doctors money
and told them she would come back for the child. For days, she wept over this
child and that someone would reject such an innocent and beautiful baby boy.
Several days later, she received the heartbreaking news that the child had
died. But that night would live in Mama Warra’s memory for the rest of her
life. That night added fuel to the fire in her heart to rescue orphans.
Because of what they had seen in Karatu, Mama Warra and her
husband decided to move from the city Arusha to the tiny village of Karatu and
begin what is now known as Shalom Orphanage. Mama Warra and her husband faced
extremely challenging circumstances when they started this work. They had
little room, little help, and no money. At times even, her husband found it
difficult to understand his wife’s relentless passion and cautioned her that
this mission carried tremendous responsibility and garnered little return.
Let us join and give a helping hand to them. Raising kids from babysitting up to adolescents it is not an easy job.
God bless you all
