Welcome to Maranatha Shelter...

‘RAISING ORPHAN AWARENESS WORLDWIDE, SO THAT THEY CAN BE ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE SOCIETY, SETTING PLATFORMS THAT WILL BETTER THEIR LIVES’

BACKGROUND

Maranatha Shelter Trust was founded in 2003 after realizing there were so many deaths due to HIV and AIDS in Sanyati especially Nyimo Growth Point community. We have 175 children on our register with ages from 3 to 18 years and one special case of 21 years.

These children are under the guardianship of grandmothers, uncles or any close relative who volunteers to take care of the remaining children after parents have passed away or are deceased.

Sanyati is a drought stricken area without water resources and sanitary and many orphans and the less privileged are vulnerable to poverty. We are on a campaign to source for whatever help we can get to make the orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) gain comfort in the homes they live.

The children are fostered under immediate families and some are actually under child headed families where no parent exists anymore. Maranatha Shelter simply identifies the orphaned and vulnerable children in the community at any age and supports them to live comfortably.

Where did the name MARANATHA SHELTER come from?

The name derived from the Aramaic word 'Maranatha' meaning “the Lord is coming” or “Come, O Lord ,the early Christians used it to replace the word ‘shalom’ under the strict conditions that everyone was to call Caesar their God. They uplifted their spirits by saying, “the lord is still coming to save them”. In this case the Lord will come to save the less privileged in this Shelter by using people in the world who will be generous enough and give.