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Orphans Centres.
 


ARO-Chiringa Orphan Centre. (photo above)
 Chiringa is a small town accessible by a poor road, at the foothills of Mount Mulanje by the southeast border to Mosambique.  The ARO-Orphan Centre consists of two buildings and a compound with a tap and some acres of land.  61 orphans are being fed and looked after from this centre, though most live in their villages with grandparents.  The manager of the ARO-Chiringa orphan centre is Thom Yesaya who supervises (as in the photo), the work done by 3 workers and 5 volunteers.  An ARO-Afternoon School is kept on the premises.

ARO-Muona Orphan Centre
 This centre, serving and feeding 44 orphans, is situated in the Shire River Valley in the South Malawi.  The manageress is Modester Basikolo who also teaches at the ARO Afternoon School at the Centre..  The ARO-Muona Orphan Centre, standing on the hill over looking river shire, was completed in August 2004 and an outbuilding for goats was added in September 2004.  The property lacks a water source but has 6 acres if land around it for cultivating in the future.   An ARO-afternoon school is kept on the premises.

ARO-Ngabu Orphan Centre
Ngabu Orphan Centre is a 5-bedroom house in the town of Ngabu on the main north-south tarmac road in the Chikwawa region, South West Malawi.  The manager is Christopher Kamangira and he with his wife Elizabeth are ‘parents’ to 5 school boys in the ARO-programme.  The orphaned boys from ‘the bush’ are now permanently living in the Ngabu house also used for training pastors and ARO-staff.  The property has electricity.

Sub-Stations

  • Beka:
    Beka sub-station is serving 24 orphans in Beka village (17 km west of Ngabu) and similar bush villages nearby.  The volunteer workforce sees to the distribution of maize with the supervision of Christopher Kamangira, the manager he also runs an ARO-Saturday school in Beka with volunteer helpers
     

  • Namba:
    Namba sub-station is serving 12 orphans in Namba village 12km North of Chiringa.  Also here at the workforce is a volunteer and volunteers run the ARO-Saturday school.  Manager Thom Yesaya in Chiringa oversees the programme.
     

  • Nkhulambe Sub-Station:
    This ARO Sub-Station is in a village 17 miles South East of Chiringa, by the Mosambiqan border. There are now 15 children who only used to eat mangos from the trees, in the ARO feeding programme and attending an ARO Afternoon School 3 days a week.
     

  • Masenjere Sub-Station
    masenjere village lies 10Km north of Muona.  There are 14 orphans there now who are being fed and looked after by ARO.  These children all got new school uniforms in July 2005 and the mud huts of their guardians were repaired.
     

  • Kandodo Sub-Station. Kandodo is a hamlet appr.3 miles  from the Muona Orphan Centre. 12 very needy children were added to the feeding programme in December 2005.
     

  • Ntepa Sub-Station. This village lies some 5 miles north of Chiringa, with a lot of desperately poor orphans who weren’t receiving any help whatsoever. 12 of them were taken to the ARO feeding programme in November 2005.
     

  • Khokhwa.  The village lies West of Ngabu in Southern Malawi, and 12 orphans here were added for the ARO feeding programme in November 2005.