Hope Orphan Home needs your help to help children

Writer Chris Cleave once said that looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting, and Nkosingiphile Buthelezi, a Kingsway resident, is a gold medalist in the sport of parenting as she is a foster mother to four HIV-positive orphans.

Nkosingiphile established the Hope Orphan Home in 2008 after she moved to Kingsway and saw the number of children who were orphans after their parents had died from HIV or Aids.

“I grew up in a home where my grandmother would look after the neighbourhood’s children and she never complained.

“She would feed them, some would stay with us for a few days and when I started this organisation, I did it because I had already been exposed to a woman who loved children unconditionally.”

The organisation is not funded by the government and it survives on social grants and donations.

Times have been hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic as not many donations have been rolling in, but Nkosingiphile has ensured that all her children are fed clothed and when they go to school, they look just like the other children.

She highlighted that one of her biggest challenges is comforting the children as they grow older and learn more about HIV.

“The teenagers would come back from the clinic and the older they get, they don’t understand why they have to drink medication every day and why they cannot be with their parents.

“I sit with them and explain to them as best as I can and sometimes I would win and they would be happy, but other days I just let them go through whatever they are going through by themselves if they choose to.”

Hope Orphan Home is located in a very small property in Kingsway with no proper play area for the children.

The organisation’s long-term goal is to be able to move to a bigger property where the children will be able to play in a large play area and she would be able to take in more children.

The home always welcomes donations of any form, including food, children’s clothing, toiletries, fuel, gas and cleaning materials.

There is also a need for the following household appliances, a washing machine, gas bottle, fridge and deep freezer.

For more information on the organisation and how to donate, residents are welcome to contact Nkosingiphile on 084 703 3988 or email bunkosingiphile11@gmail.com

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