Insight into our Children‘s Home

Insight into our Children‘s Home

Eight children staying in our Papa Ramon‘s Children‘s Home (April 2022). They are from the Ovahimba and Ovazemba tribes. Others will be added hopefully soon.

Some of these kids are visiting children to evaluate if they fit into our program. After one week they will return to their families and we decide together if they will become permanent HopeKids at our Children’s Home

Daily exam reveal the potential of every child to master our demanding teaching program and to learn and accept many new rules.

Lots of fun activities and games disclose social behavior, learning capability, eye-hand coordination, physical fitness, etc.

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Happiness after coloring Easter eggs

Coloring Easter eggs - strange tradition, but fun!

We are learning about numbers today.

HopeKids enjoying life

Dinner time with our two children's supervisors

There are always lots of things to do and our HopeKids are excited to help with different tasks:

- carrying & unpacking boxes

- sorting through hundreds of toys, games, clothes, etc.

- getting dormitory rooms #2 and #3 ready

- equipping play room

- removing weeds in our compound

- planting a herb garden

- doing laundry (with a washer it’s an easy task)

Early morning helpers
enjoying the warming morning sun

Little helpers are excited about the new toy boxes

Teamwork

Preparing a little herb garden

Two months later:
harvest time for basil & parsley

Kids learn quickly how to keep their rooms in order

Showered, dressed for bed: ready for movie night!

It’s coloring time!

HopeKids enjoy their new lives in Papa Ramon‘s Children‘s Home and are awaiting eagerly the official start of our Private School.

Thank you for your support, allowing us to provide our HopeKids with a unique & unexpected opportunity in their lives.

Here are more ways to help:

Donations for:

Papa Ramon's Children's Home
Papa Ramon's Private School
Feeding program for street kids & refugees
Village outreach
School & church support

Sponsorship program for a

HopeKid:

a child in need
a kid without access to school education
a child exposed to harmful traditional rituals
a child in need of your help & support

More information about our work in Namibia can you find here:

About us

Papa Ramon's HopeKids Children's Home is a registered organisation in Namibia, providing school education for children in need from marginalized tribes in Northern Namibia.

We focus initially on girls (but will add boys for the 2023 school year), because they are usually not given an opportunity to attend school. This is because:
(a) child marriages (early engagement)
(b) bride-dowry: the parent's desire to obtain a high bride price (usually goats)
(c) child labor: the children's role as work horses (i.e., fetching water, collecting fire wood, etc.)
(d) sex trafficking
... interferes with any desire to receive school education.

Children in need (i.e., orphans, abandoned, sick, disabled, poverty-stricken, etc.) are selected to be one of Papa Ramon's HopeKids and to grow up in Opuwo's Children's Home.

Papa Ramon's HopeKids:
- Live in a safe environment (away from harmful traditional ritual malpractices)
- Raised in an international and multi-cultural setting to promote peaceful relationships with neighbor tribes, despite traditional animosity
- Learn Christian values through lifestyle and daily exposure to the Gospel

Papa Ramon's HopeKids represent the next generation and we will help them to become future leaders. You can help and support us!

Sponsor a child and make a difference!