Mwana Villages

The Vision The vision of Mwana is to build orphan villages to provide vulnerable children with a better living environment with an opportunity to learn practical subjects and trades so they can become Congo’s leaders of tomorrow. These villages will include several houses that will each shelter a woman who will take care of a few children in a family setting. There will be a school, a clinic and many other facilities on the land. The children will learn skills useful for their future, like farming, sewing, welding. This concept, now becoming more and more desirable and popular in other African countries, sets itself apart from institutional orphanages because each child lives in a house and enjoys a mother’s affection and a bond with brothers and sisters. He has the opportunity for his gifts to be identified and cultivated, to blossom and be healthy in every way, contrary to the life in an institution where he has to follow a routine and can be lost in the group rather than given the attention he needs as an individual.