Saving Orphans Through Healthcare And Outreach Inc

A critical area of emphasis near the inner city is Marekamp Care Point where the largest number of children are fed at one time. This community has many child-headed households and caregivers who engage the children in unsuitable activity such as making and drinking home brewed alcohol. This area known as the Squatter's Camp is violent and unsafe , but services provided by SOHO are opening doors of opportunity for ministering to the children who live there and in the surrounding areas. The Outreach Program Coordinators are a young Swazi clergy man and his wife. They visit the homes and provide emotional support for the children, especially those parented by teen girls. Life Skills are also a focus area. Children who typically manifest the violence to which they are exposed, are taught interpersonal skills through sports. They are also taught woodworking and the items created are sold and the funds provided for their benefit. The community is often served by invited volunteers who bring mental health services and other health related skills to the children and their caregivers. The many teen mothers especially benefit from these services . A scout- like Pathfinder Club is being developed to prove yet another avenue for the children to learn discipline and other valuable behavioral skills.

SOHO has sought for many years to obtain land on which to build a residential program where children can be housed and embrace a hope filled future. This facility is now a reality. Lentsaba Farm and Children's Village includes safe homes for vulnerable children as well as education and health care. The program here is holistic, addressing health of body, mind and spirit. There is an agricultural component under development where crops will not only provide food for the children, but will also be sold to help sustain the village. Currently three houses are close to completion and preparations are being made to house the first sixteen children in two for the homes while the third serves temporarily as a multi purpose center. This will be the first facility in Eswatini using a trauma informed approach to service, which addresses the roots of trauma in the children and provides training for the members of the community in which they live to be knowledgeable of the effect of trauma on children.

Hope Seekers Alliance Children's Village - this mountain farm will be the site of a Children's Village providing education, housing, and basic health care for children at risk. Agriculture and social enterprise will help to make the program sustainable while addressing poverty alleviation in the area. Construction of the village is ongoing. 1. Site preparation 2. Road construction and retaining wall 3. Construction of rondavels