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Chengeston Orphanage Care Home - Gokwe

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Zimbabwe Education Children Social work Teenagers Education Children +2 Permanent

About the project

Chengeston Orphanage Care Home - Gokwe

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Chengeston Care orphanage Home is a safe house for abused and vulnerable children in Gokwe. Since its inception the orphanage has housed and saved many children who are dumped by their parents due to unwanted pregnancies and some have the most shocking stories you have ever heard. It currently shelters children of all ages. A reasonable number of the children are HIV/AIDS orphans who lost their parents from HIV/AIDS, some were deserted by their parents dumped in bushes, toilets among other places. The centre also acts as a drop-in centre were abused children are kept in good health and safety while investigations are pending by responsible authorities.

💼 What the programme involves

Children at the orphanage are hungry for love, care, educational assistance and even just a smile and friendship. Volunteers are essential in providing these simple but usually undermined gestures. These are important for cognitive stimulation, emotional or confidence building which are important to develop inner drive and boosting their self-esteem. This opportunity will present volunteers a chance to impact both the children and themselves. It will give volunteers a gratifying blend of fresh, thrilling, and amazing experiences. The experience of each volunteer is different depending on the level of their innovation and inner drive. Volunteers therefore are expected to have passion for children and the drive to engage children actively to increase the chances of their experiences being worthy while. Daily volunteer activities include playing with the children using those kinds of games that we take lightly when we are back home and think they are old fashioned, assist with school homework and generally ensuring that children are engaged at all times. Children usually wish to understand the volunteer, where they are from, what music they like, sporting activities, and including what sorts of social experiences they prefer engaging in. It is those kinds of things we take for granted that they want to hear. There is an opportunity for endless intellectual capacity to what volunteers could do. Whatever it is that you can think of, just know that your initiatives have an astounding positive effect on the children something that they will not forget.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation is provided at the centre or either a host family. At a host family, volunteers have the opportunity to immerse themselves into the real Zimbabwean culture and day to day life as they live in, eat and participate in host family activities. These host families are carefully selected based on a critical criterion to ensure basic comfort for our volunteers

📍 About the location

Volunteers are free to organise their own leisure program, in consultation with the host organisation

⚠️ Requirements

Being a part of the orphanage triggers an extensive interest in volunteers and is an opportunity to discover one’s hidden or unknown skills, patience, love, talents and even interests something which usually the volunteer themselves never recognized. It is a chance to discover the inner person. Our volunteers are given an opportunity to be as innovative as much as they could as they will simply have this time. There is therefore no particular skill required to participate in this program.

ℹ️ Additional information

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📅 Available sessions

Orphanage Home – Gokwe - Project Code ZWA M/LTV091

01/03/2020 → 31/12/2020

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 5
♂ 0/2 ♀ 0/3

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

16–99 years old

Solidarity donation

250.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Gokwe, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Zimbabwean Dollar (ZWD / Z$)

Exchange rate

1 ZWD = 0.002556 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Central Africa Time

Local time: 21:34 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English