"Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are."

 Theodore Roosevelt

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St. Lawrence Home of Hope

Is a home for neglected, traumatized and abused children who require care, protection and therapeutic intervention and development.
It has a dual purpose:
1. A rehabilitation center where we offer a new home and a new start for the children.
2. It is a “half-way home” where we intend to re-integrate the children back in their families, back to their “real” homes and main stream society.

Over the past 21 years we have helped hundreds of children to escape the trap of severe neglect, homelessness, physical and sexual abuse and drug addiction.
We have helped them to regain their childhood, their confidence, their dreams and their hope in the future.

​The centre was founded in 1998 by the Catholic Women’s League of Lusaka at the request of the then Archbishop of Lusaka. R.R. Medardo Mazombwe. The project was put in their hands in order to respond to the growing numbers of “street children” in Lusaka. They are in charge of advocacy, sourcing funds, developing infrastructure and taking care of the running costs.  From its inception the Catholic Parish of Good Shepherd was involved in its establishment, development and running of it as it was within the boundaries of the parish. The first basic structures were built within the property of St. Lawrence Catholic Parish which, in turn, is in the hands of The Missionaries of Africa.

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