Orlindi Home

The Orlindi Home was started by one brave Mama, Miss Claudia. She had a daycare in her neighborhood. One day someone left a baby there. She took the child in. Word got out. She took in more. She was a caring woman who saw a problem and stepped in to do something about it.

Southern Africa is facing several social issues, and these children are simply caught in the middle. Many come as babies, rescued by trash workers who find them in the garbage. Others are orphaned. Miss Claudia opened her home and took them in. She called it Orlindi, a place of safety.

Unfortunately, Miss Claudia died of Covid in 2021. A Cross Cultural Connections Impact Team stepped into the gap so that these orphans can continue to be cared for. Not only cared for, but loved, and raised to be exemplary members of their society. To do this we have:

1. A CCC Impact Team on the ground who are loving the kids well, and looking for ways to improve the children’s care. New babies arrive all the time, so growth is mandatory.

2. A way that YOU can become financial sponsors of one of these children. Let’s do this, folks! It takes about $100 a month per child, and there are 39 kids at Orlindi Home.

3. The Orlindi Home team also just launched a new business, Frozen Joinery, which makes furniture for the local market, with the goal of creating funds to pay for staff and offering apprenticeships to older children in the program who have complete school. Until the furniture business takes off, monthly costs are $3K. Frozen Joinery is looking for Angel investors to the tune of $10K.

4. By law the Orlindi home needs to have more house mothers to help care for the children. The ratio should be 7:1. For this the team need to hire two more women. This will cost $300 a month each.

5. Miss Claudia was also beginning to place children for adoptions. Pray with us as we seek the best way to continue her valuable work. Minimally it will take funding two staff people to coordinate not only the placement of these children, but assuring that home studies are conducted, and potential parents are trained. We are also networked within the region, as there are more children than those at Orlindi to help.

6. It would be our desire that Miss Claudia’s work multiplies. The government find roughly 30 babies a month who are thrown out. We need more than one home to meet this need.

7. We would also be partnering with the Drop Box program to station Baby Boxes in safe places so that children can be safely given to the Orlindi Home Program instead of thrown out to die.

8. We would like to move the Orlindi home out of the slums and into a green space where gardens and livestock could become a reality. Currently there is a bar across the street, and the home is too small for 39 children. If you would be able to help us buy this home, please reach out via email.

9. There are 12 children who have aged out of the Orlindi Home. The Team is working to get them into college or trade schools. It would cost $1000 each to get them in.

10. Finally, we also would like to empower training in the region so that girls know that they don’t need to throw babies out, men know that girls are not available for rape, and families know that adoption is a viable way to grow ones family.

Please jump on this and start supporting a child or staff, or come alongside Frozen Joinery with an investment. If this business takes off, it can financially cover many of the associated costs of running this home and starting future ones. Thank you!