Lola Children's Home is a home-grown, not-for-profit, humanitarian organization founded by Abebe Fantahu who escaped the famine in Ethiopia in 1985. Lola is established to improve the lives of orphan children especially Children affected with HIV, and provide them with a bright future. Due to the Deaths of HIV/AIDS affected persons, Re-marriage of Deserted / Widowed / Divorce women, Absence of lov
e and security in the families, Family disputes, Unwanted pregnancy of Trafficking / sexually exploited girls; these orphan and street children are left without care and support. Therefore, Lola strives to provide care, support and protection within the programs. Lola has won the hearts and minds of the community, donors and the government officials in 2015, the government allocate over 5,000sm of land to build accommodation for the children, office space for Lola and to build a community school. A year later, Lola has secured funding for the construction of a G+2 modern structure in which it got completed in 2017. Lola strives to be a self-sufficient entity. Part of our future goals must do with increasing our sustainability. Future projects for this include building school where our children will attend and which will also be open for the rest of the community both who can pay the tutution fee and who coudn't afford the tutution fees, therefore, costs to attend school from the members of the community who can afford it will help cover the operational costs so that we can address more community members who are in need of our support. Services Offered at Lola Children’s Home
All the children under Lola children's home are provided with food, education, Clothing psychosocial support, medication and provide shelter for 21 abandoned children. Daycare
Most of our kids come from single-parent homes. We provide a place for the kids to go during the day while their parents are at work. Under this program we have 20 children who are provided with food, education, Clothing psychosocial support, medication
Community Services
With the current socioeconomic state of the community around Lola, it is imperative that we aid this community as well. Hence, we have 45 children who are provided with
food, education, Clothing psychosocial support, medication. In addition lola is providing water to the many houses with our water tank.
