Igoda Primary school has a total of 503 pupils, and 43 of these have no parents at all; 68 have just one surviving parent.

Stage 1: Work have begun on the Igoda Village Orphanage, which will have 6 orphan house accommodating upto 10 children and a house mother. There will also be a house for the Orphanage Matron and another for volunteers.
The children will remain as integrated with the village as possible as there will inevitably be a stigma attached to living in the orphanage. At present 4 houses are completed.

Stage 2: The Trust will set up a system for supporting children to live with extended family in the village, by providing food, clothing and a social support service.

Stage 3: The trust hopes to build a vocational training centre to offer the children from the villages training in the most marketable skills to give them a chance of a decent living.

There are an estimated 200 orphans in Igoda Village alone. There are 15 other villages in the immediate District area that will undoubtably have similar or worse statistics. Once the initial project has been tried and tested, we hope to replicate it in the other villages.