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just children's foundation
various locations throughout zimbabwe

JCF or the Just Children's Foundation work throughout Zimbabwe, serving young people who live on the streets.

The help children get back to school and even reunite young people with their familes...

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Project name:

Just Children Foundation

Project location

The project is based throughout Zimbabwe with centres in Harare, Chitungwiza, Karoi, Maware, and Chisangano. The services are also being received in other areas where children are receiving assistance at home.

Who runs the project?

The Just Children Foundation (JCF) began in July 1994 after one man, Moosa Kasimonj, a Christain living in Zimbabwe, saw how children lived on the streets.  He sold his business and opened up a shelter for street children and since then the JCF has assisted children to leave the streets and go on to a better future.

What is the need?

Zimbabwe has a large number of children who, for various reasons, live on the streets.  Broken families, the AIDS pandemic, poverty, abuse and delinquent behaviour are just a few.  In the past, African culture relied upon the extended family to care for orphaned or destitute children, but, because of the on-going economic hardships in Zimbabwe and the shift towards the nuclear family unit, this system has been completely destroyed.  As a result, it is the children who suffer most and many of them end up unwanted, vulnerable and on the streets – the so-called ‘street-children’.

What does the project do?

The JCF provides care and shelter where possible, offering counselling and teaching to children in a Christian context. They act as advocates for the rights of children and endeavour to change social attitudes towards children in need. The various centres also take parental responsibility for orphaned children and where possible find foster families or reunite children with their families.

What difference is being made?

Since JCF was set up, 750 children have been helped to get of the streets and back to school, and well over 200 have been reunited with their families.  This is the story of one girl called Chipo:

Chipo, a 14 year old girl, came to the Just Children Foundation in 2001.  She was sent to live with her Uncle after both of her parents died. She ran away after being forced to marry an older man as a way of ‘appeasing an avenging spirit’.  The man was sixty-five and she was only twelve years old at the time.

Chipo then lived on the streets of her town, Mutare.  A concerned woman took her to the Police and she was referred to the Department of Social Welfare in Harare, over 300 miles away!  They moved her to Kadoma, a further 80 miles away from Harare, to a school for “problem” children.

But, Chipo’s paperwork was not in order and she was removed from the school and returned to Harare.  The Just Children Foundation were told about the “difficult” child and they offered her a home.  Chipo chose to stay at JCF where, after much counselling, she told her story, learnt to accept her past and move on.  She now has a new home and is attending one of the best schools in Zimbabwe and is doing well.

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