In 2001, a small group of people established an orphanage in Zimbabwe for children living with or impacted by HIV/AIDS at Bakorenhema children center (BCC). Bakorenhema is located in Marange District of Zimbabwe, and offers a loving, stable and secure home environment for more than 20 children.These children find a home, where they receive education, medical treatment and spiritual enrichment and
above all, unconditional love. In October 2002, the Orphanage was once handling 25 destitute and abandoned children, most of whom have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. The children, aged between 9 years to 18 years, live at the orphanage. A number of the children at the orphanage were picked up from the homes of their deceased or dying parents, from the streets by social workers, or from pit latrines or rubbish dumps where they had been abandoned by desperate or frustrated parents or relatives. The orphanage needs an annual budget for food, clothing and schooling for the orphaned children. More family houses are also needed, as is funding for the recruitment and training of care givers and child mentors and their assistants.
