Mrs. Barbara Herbert
Director
m: +266 5907 2599
e: bnhherbert@gmail.com

Mrs. Grace Moshoeshoe, Chairperson
m: +266 5941 3988

Postal Address:
PO Box 4
Mohale's Hoek, 800
Lesotho

or

PO Box 1564
Maseru, 100
Lesotho

Physical Address:
Qhalasi in Mohale's Hoek District.

Local NGO

Managing Director
House Mothers
House Manager
Gardners

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Board members are all business and professional people who volunteer their time to the Home.
We have UK based volunteer from Msizi Africa.
We have various volunteers at the Home from time to time.

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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Ministry of Education and training.
Ministry of Police. ( CGPU).
Sentebale.
World Food Program.
World Vision
Trust for Africa
U.S Peace Corps.
UNICEF.
K.B.T. Jandrell & Co.
Lesotho Steel Products (Pty) Limited.
Msizi Africa

Qhalasi

• Mantsase Childrens Home is a residential home for up to 50 orphaned and abandoned children from 3 years to 18 years old. it serves to protect children whose health and welfare are affected through abuse and neglect.
• The goal of the home is not to be an institution, but to provide a family atmosphere for the children and keep them as much a part of the Basotho community as possible. This will enable them to merge back into family life much more easily when the occasion arises. Children are regularly place at Mantsase by Social Welfare or the Child Protection Unit through Social Welfare. Children leave the Home when they are relocated with their extended families.
• To provide shelter and care for orphans and abused children

• The number of children at the Home change regularly and are expected to increase in the near future as the number of children orphaned because of HIV/AIDS escalates in Lesotho currently there are between 40 and 50 children at the Home at any given time. All children at the Home are provided with a supportive and safe environment. Children four to five years old attend a local Montessori pre school and all the children over six attend the local primary or secondary schools. Mantsase covers childrens school fees and provide life skills, HIV and AIDS education, home management skills, play therapy sessions, health and safety practice and study.
• We now have an outreach program with two branches. The first is providing grocery items (food, cleaning products, and sanitary projects) to child-headed households in local villages. The second is a feeding scheme that we are currently reworking. In this scheme we provide food products to volunteer families. We cook and serve the food to orphans in their villages, proving those orphans with one nutritious meal per day. Msizi Africa funds this.
• Mants'ase began its own Montessori preschool in January. We have hired a new preschool teacher who trained for six months last year in Montessori Education in East London. The school is located on Mantsase grounds and includes children both from mantsase and from the local village. These children are learning English from the start,so they will be prepared when they begin primary school

Mantsase long term strategy includes components to make it finically self-sustaining, to continue to care for orphans, to help stop the spread of HIV/Aids., to strengthen the surrounding community. To start an after school program and library for the local community, to develop a replicable model for future Homes. Mantsase would like to do an out reach program to the neighboring villages in the form of feeding scheme.
Mantsase also intends to develop and economic support base through the following enterprises.
·Market gardening on the property.
·Poultry production and processing.
·Building block production.
·Employing a permanent Social Worker at the Home

• An infirmary, Kitchen utensils and cupboards, dining tables, money

• Training Needs:

• Psychosocial support

• Training house mothers about child psychology and how to care for and support traumatized children.