Standard Style 25 May 2014 - 31 May 2014

Building People Building Dreams Building the Kingdom
Supplement to The Standard May 25 to 31 2014 31
What is project relocation?
TO relocate celebrated orphan children from
the distant farms outside Harare, to a place closer
to the Celebration Church Borrowdale. This
will allow them to be a constant part of the Celebration
family, attend proper schooling, and develop
in an environment that is family oriented.
Background
The Vision of caring for destitute children was
birthed in the early 80’s. The effects of the breakdown
of the traditional extended family structure
and the urban drift (the migration of rural
folk into the cities), pressurising many women
to abandon their babies. It was during this
time that the Social outreach arm of the church,
named Compassion Ministries, was formed.
Compassion Ministries carried out relief
work among the Mozambican refugees as well as
re-settling hundreds of destitute people, who had
been living on the streets of Harare, the nation’s
capital city.
Subsequently, it started receiving orphaned
children who were housed in dormitory style
homes in rural farm settings, with education facilities
on the farm.
With the care of the church and the farmer
who donated the land we have seen a whole
group of children grow up and enter into meaningful
lives in the mainstream of society
There's a better way
There is now a prerequisite for all children’s
homes and orphanages to shift to cluster homes
in Zimbabwe. The Ministry of Labour and Social
Services (MoLSS) through the Children’s Act
5:06 “…has the statutory mandate to place children
found in need of care into places of safety,
which serves as temporal homes for them, where
children can access basic services.”
In light of the above, we are doing 2 things
1) Relocate all of our children from the two locations
in the country where they are currently
in dormitory styled care centers to cluster home
styled housing units in the city near the church
and the school.
2) Raise the funding to build the new cluster
homes that will facilitate house parents with five
to six children per home.
Initially we are endeavouring to raise US$1
250 000 through an initiative called “operation
relocation”. The cost of the cluster homes,
have been calculated at US$700 per square
metre, which is the current cost of building
in Zimbabwe.
The cost of a double unit would be roughly
US$300 000. In total Compassion Ministries
will build five double units cluster homes, on
land that has been donated for the orphans
within walking distance of the Celebration
Church and Celebration International School.
What we 're doing
Our Senior Pastor is mobilising businesses;
corporations, NGO’s, friends, churches and individuals
to contribute to the new home for our Celebrated
Children, by giving towards this worthy
cause as he does a sponsored climb of Mount Kilimanjaro
— “the roof of Africa” — Africa’s highest
mountain. Pastor Tom is making the climb as
part of his 60th birthday celebrations desiring to
raise US$600 000, with the help of those who will
sponsor the climb. He believes that this will help
leave a legacy and a heritage for the children for
generations to come.