Thank you for visiting our home.
We appreciate your concern and interest in this vision and project. We hope that your time spent with us will ignite a passion to partner with us and so many others to play your part in the very real needs that many children are facing.
Jesus is Lord
We are a faith based organization that strives to reflect Jesus’ heart and be His hands and feet to the children of our land. We believe that by the providence of God, abandoned children, orphans, neglected and abused children are welcomed into loving Lesedi families. Our strong desire is to save children and help them to not only survive but to thrive.
The challenges facing South Africa.
- There are about 100,000 child-headed households without either parents in South Africa alone.
- More than 7 million people are living with H.I.V.
- 3500 children are found abandoned every year.
- 1 in 5 children are orphans without a home.
More about the crisis
A simple direct solution is a two pronged approach to sustainable change.
- The Lesedi family Home:
- A long term home for children to thrive. House parents for the children in unthinkable situations.
- About our house parents.
- The house parents of each Lesedi home are the true heroes of our work. Involved in the constant daily care and healing of our children, they are the voices of hope, love and dignity. Each Lesedi family home has a full-time house parent or parents who have completed a strenuous and lengthy training process.
- Children can be often come into our Lesedi homes with immediate medical or emotional needs that must be addressed.
- Our house parents are involved in a slow and steady work of helping children heal from horrific trauma, the loss of parents, terrible abuse, and medical conditions that have gone untreated for far too long.
- Each home has full-time house parent assistant as well, in order to offer another layer of support to our children with intense special or medical needs receive additional layers of support to ensure optimal family health well being.
- A growing number of children are designated to Synagogue Children Of Hope due to our unique ability to receive children with complex special needs and provide them with the highest possible care. At this time over 40% of our children have moderated to severe special needs. We need to feed their bellies and their souls, clothe them with dignity and respect, and offer them a place to belong.
- To provide each child with the level of care he or she needs, Synagogue Children Of Hope works with the top medical professionals, committed partners staffs and compassionate volunteers to provide the highest level of individualized care.
- Our team is collaborative and unified in our approach to give each child amazing care.
“I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shun by every body.”
Mother Teresa
So what Synagogue Children Of Hope do?
While our ultimate desire is to see our children adopted into legal families, we know that most who comes through our doors will be with us long term due to H. I. V/Aids status, age or special needs. We are committed to becoming a de- facto family for these children until they become self-sufficient adults. While we are a strong supporter and encourage of adoption into permanent, legal families, annual adoption in South Africa are less than one percent of the number of children who’ve been orphaned. Therefore our desire is to offer the highest quality of care to the children who will never be adopted. More than 500 infants and children stayed at Synagogue Children Of Hope since we began in 2014.
Many have been adopted, placed in long-term foster homes, some have been reunited with their families of origin. Sadly we have lost some of our children to Aids. A significant number of our children are H. I. V positive and therefore unlikely to be adopted. These children require long-term care and are expected to remain in our homes throughout their childhood and teenage years.