{"id":4476,"date":"2015-03-11T12:44:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T09:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ajan.africa\/jesuit-projects-for-orphans-and-vulnerable-children-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T12:44:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T09:44:37","slug":"jesuit-projects-for-orphans-and-vulnerable-children-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/jesuit-projects-for-orphans-and-vulnerable-children-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesuit projects for orphans and vulnerable children in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">La <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Loyola Hope Centre <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Lom\u00e9, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Togo<\/span>, a centre dedicated to the care of people with HIV and orphans and to HIV prevention, offers orphans educational and psychosocial support. At the start of the 2010-2011 academic year, 122 children received school uniforms and supplies and their school fees were covered.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">La <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM)<\/strong> <\/span>in <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bujumbura,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Burundi,<\/span> is a project of the Jesuit Region of Rwanda-Burundi that is dedicated to the struggle against HIV\/AIDS. This project supports nearly 4,000 people: 1,300 with HIV and more than 2,700 orphans and vulnerable children. Many of the children are HIV-infected. Support to the children consists of uniforms and school supplies like exercise books and pens; nutritional, psychosocial and medical support, as well as help to the children\u2019s parents or guardians to be self-sufficient (income-generation).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Six community homes<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> (orphanages) for 42 orphans run by the Jesuit parish of Fonte Boa in western <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mozambique<\/span> \u2013 there are eight or nine children in each home.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">La <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Parlons-SIDA<\/strong><\/span> programme run by the Jesuit parish of Christ the King in Kisangani, in the eastern <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Democratic Republic of Congo, s<\/span>upports 42 children in primary and secondary school, by paying all their tuition fees, and supplying them with uniforms and supplies like copybooks, schoolbags, pens and pencils; in 2011, less children were helped than the year before because less funds were available.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">St Mary\u2019s parish<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> in Matero, a suburb of Lusaka, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Zambia<\/span>, runs a primary school called Ana Amasiye (\u2018orphans\u2019 in Chewa, one of the Zambian languages) for nearly 400 orphans and vulnerable children, which grew out of an initiative taken years ago by a teacher who is one of the caregivers of the parish home-based care programme. The school also has a feeding programme, which ensures that the pupils get fed every day, six days a week.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In Ouagadougou, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burkina Faso<\/span>, there are two associations that were co-founded by Jesuits. The <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Association Vie, Sante et Solidarit\u00e9<\/em> (ASVS)<\/strong> <\/span>and the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Association B\u00e9n\u00e9voles de l\u2019Esp\u00e9rance<\/em> (ABE) <\/strong><\/span>accompany and support very poor and neglected people with HIV (mostly women raising families alone) and orphans and vulnerable children, helping the latter with school fees and psychosocial support.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">La <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Jesuit Solidarity Fund <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in Uganda<\/span> supports mostly households headed by widows, abandoned women or children. Many of the families supported are affected by disability and severe illnesses, including HIV\/AIDS. Some were refugees or internally displaced people. The Fund supplies food vouchers, rent subsidies and money to pay medical bills and helps children and teenagers stay in school when possible. The Fund was set up by the late Fr Eduard Trudeau in 1992 to provide school fees for children and youth who otherwise, through poverty, would be unable to go to school. However the realisation that many children lacked the most basic needs led Fr Trudeau to give material aid as well as payment for school fees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>St Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School<\/strong> <\/span>caters to teenagers from Kibera slum, Nairobi, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kenya<\/span>, who have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Since starting in 2004, St Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School had just short of 300 graduates at the end of 2011, with 59 new graduates in November. St Aloysius also has a graduate programme to sponsor its graduates in college. St Aloysius Gonzaga was co-founded in late 2003 by the local Christian Life Community (CLC) and Fr Terry Charlton SJ<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">For nearly 17 years, the Jesuit parish of St Joseph the Worker in Kangemi slum, Nairobi, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kenya<\/span>, has run Upendo programme for children who are at risk of abuse or neglect. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Upendo<\/strong><\/span> offers children, of pre-school age, educational, recreational, social and nutritional support, and later sponsors and follows them up in primary and secondary school. Around 200 children and teenagers are supported.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Loyola Hope Centre in Lom\u00e9, Togo, a centre dedicated to the care of people with HIV and orphans and to HIV prevention, offers orphans educational and psychosocial support. At the start of the 2010-2011 academic year, 122 children received school uniforms and supplies and their school fees were covered.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-more sd-all-trans\" href=\"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/jesuit-projects-for-orphans-and-vulnerable-children-in-africa\/#more-4476\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajan-campaign-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajan.africa\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}