MAMMA JEANNE’S ORPHANAGE
Be A HERO partners with Mamma Jeanne’s Orphanage through the Child Sponsorship Program, and by working to raise funds for the building projects and improvements.
Mamma Jeanne’s Orphanage was founded by Jeanne and her husband, Pastor Mulegetsi. Mamma Jeanne started bringing in orphans and separated children in 1993 at Masisi. Children had been orphaned, or become separated from their parents during interethnic conflicts and successive wars in 1996 and 1998 at the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in general, in Masisi territory in particular.
In 1997 Mamma Jeanne moved the children to Goma city due to the widespread insecurity in Masisi territory. Currently there are about 250 children living on ½ acre of solid lava, in a known lava flow path.
The stated goals of Mamma Jeanne’s home are:
- work to reunite separated children with relatives
- care for the children physically, and provide them with love and counseling to aid in their healing after severe trauma (witnessing murder, rape, beatings etc)
- provide the children with an opportunity to attend school (currently the children walk to a government school – future plans are to build and maintain their own private school where the quality of education will be much higher).
For information on Be A HERO’s projects with Mamma Jeanne, click here. If you would like to sponsor one of the children that live at Mamma Jeanne’s, click here.
