Meet Home of Hope
Home of Hope, below Mchinji Mountains Home of Hope sits below “Mchinji Mountains” - a government Forest Reserve stretching up from Mchinji town and marking the border with Zambia. I love looking at those hills. Look down from the peaks, and you see the plain of Mchinji district stretch away, dotted with remote villages and farms blessed with water from the hills. I put the camera drone up this morning to enjoy some views from above without the sweat of the climb! Next year will mark the 25th Anniversary of Home of Hope. From just one house for the Chipetas, their ten orphaned grandchildren and ten other orphans, it’s now a huge campus - a village, actually. Houses for the “mothers” and younger children in family units, dorm blocks for older children, Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Vocational schools all on site, with accommodation for administration staff and a growing number of teachers. That’s not all. There’s an on-site clinic, which since Covid extends care to people from th...