Rose of Sharon

Rose of Sharon Welfare Organisation is a registered private voluntary organisation (PVO3/2004) that provides shelter, food, education and health care, social amenities and recreation to needy orphans.  The children are taken from all walks of life. These are children who are abandoned and dumped in the streets or orphaned, with no extended family to provide care, and those from child-headed families.  They are brought to Rose of Sharon by police, social welfare officers and community leaders, at ages ranging from a day old to 21.  Currently, the organisation is providing care to 100 children.  Sixteen care-givers look after them.  Some of the children are HIV positive.  All children of school-going age are attending primary, secondary school or college.  Toddlers attend a home based nursery, under the care of an Early Education officer.  At present the children live in four houses in and near Harare (formerly Salisbury) Zimbabwe.