South Africa (Badplaas)
Orphan Care Center and Training Facility
The Emoyeni Mission
EMI Project 5404
June 7-16, 2006
Photos and Documents
Orphan Care Center (.pdf)
Orphan Care Center Floor Plan (.pdf)
Site Architectural Key Plan (.pdf)
Team delivering blankets to the elderly (.jpg)
Status Update
October 19, 2006
Designs complete. The Emoyeni Mission is raising funds for the Ophan Care Center and the Training Facility.
Original Project Scope
The Emoyeni Mission [website] was founded in 2002 in recognition of the growing HIV/AIDS crisis that left children without parents and communities overwhelmed with child-headed households. South Africa was prayerfully selected as a target nation due to the extent of the HIV/AIDS crisis and the lamentable UN statistics listing the nation as having the world’s highest per capita AIDS infection rate.
The primary concern of the mission is the care of orphaned and disadvantaged children, ages 0 to 18, who are at risk of homelessness, hunger, disease, neglect, abuse, poverty, or abandonment. The mission provides assistance for disadvantaged parents, care givers or guardians of these children. Understanding that children live in communities, the Emoyeni Mission assists rural communities affected by HIV/AIDS where joblessness, lack of education, poverty, food insecurity, lack of access to medical attention, or orphan destitution is a crisis.
The Emoyeni Mission selected the community of Badplass in the Albert Luthuli District of Mpumalanga Province to initiate their programs. In 2006, Prince C.M. Dlamini, brother to King Maswati III of Swaziland and supreme chief over Swazi ex-patriots living in South Africa donated an approximately 125-metre by 130-metre site in Badplaas to Emoyeni South Africa. The mission plans to use the site to build an Orphan Care Center that will care for preschool-aged orphans during the day, allowing older children in child-headed homes to attend school.
In addition to caring for the younger children during the day, the center will provide the orphans with at least one good meal a day. The center will also function as a safe haven for children in dangerous or compromising homes. With the understanding that the Orphan Care Center is the first priority, the Emoyeni Mission also wants to use the Badplaas site to build a Community Training & Clinic Center, an Outreach Training Center, and a Pastor’s House for a local pastor who will serve as the caretaker for the facilities, and a Gate House for a security guard. The Outreach Training Center will include housing for short-term teams, and it will become a launch site for community outreach to the town of Badplaas and possibly other surrounding areas.
Project Team
Sam Matthews - EMI Team Leader
Jeff Austin - Structural Engineer
Jennifer Austin - Volunteer
Nathan Currier - EMI Engineering Intern
Graham Dennis - Surveyor
Elizabeth Kamback - EMI Engineering Intern
Matt Lankers - Architect
Graeme McGill - Civil Engineer
Sol Morrison - Architectural Drafter
Greg Oehley - Civil Engineer
Chris Orban - Electrical Designer/Drafter
The Mather-Pike family has moved from Cape Cod to South Africa to help combat the AIDS crisis in the township of Badplaas.
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