Kasisi Children's Home

Kasisi Children's Home is the largest orphanage in Zambia. It is located in the countryside, 37 km from Lusaka.

The Home has a separate wing for babies and young children, a small house for older girls, a street kids' house and two wings for children who are infected with HIV/AIDS.

Seven Polish Sisters, eight Zambian Sisters and about fifty Zambian Housemothers run the Children's Home. Their main objective is to provide the children with their basic needs, love and protection and to ensure that the children are self-supporting once they reach adulthood.

All the children go to school and after secondary school the Home supports them in further education or in finding a job.

For more information about Kasisi Children's Home, go to www.kasisichildren.org 

Read about the experiences of an Ottawa Angel maker who volunteered at Kasisi Children's Home.  She returned to Kasisi at the end of July 2010 to set up a library in the Children's Home and sent this e-mail in September.

Read a letter from Sister Mariola sent in February 2011.