Agape Children’s Village was founded in 2005 in a desolate area, Morogoro Region, Ward Kihonda, Street Yespa. The founders were Missionary Werner Drotleff, who was the former Country Director of NEHEMIA CHRISTIAN AID FOUNDATION in Tanzania, together with Mr. Simba.
The children’s village covers an area of 6 acres, consisting of two children’s houses, a kitchen block, a water tower, a double-storage guesthouse, a bakery, a small shop, 2 deep wells, a small farm of keeping livestocks and an agricultural field. It has a capacity of taking in 10 girls and 20 boys, they live in a family setting with two house mamas who take care of them.
In 2016, a little Kindergarten called Agape Village Nursery School started in order to offer an opportunity of pre-schooling education for the children who are living in the children’s village, in the meanwhile to give the neighbors who are financially poor the possibility to send their children to a good kindergarten which they can afford. So far, there are 24 children in the kindergarten.
In 2020 a community Hall was built which serves us for our daily meetings, Sunday services, children’s camps and seminars.
Up to 2022, Agape Children’s Village not only takes care of 11 girls and 11 boys in the home but also supports youths who are living outside in their studies. In addition, Agape Children’s Village supports needy children that are living with their relatives or widowed mothers who are not able to pay school fees or buy food for their children or clothing. Moreover we support 7 families through monthly food contributions and school items for their children.
The aim of this Children’s Village is not only to provide a safe and loving home for orphans and vulnerable children but also to give them a good education and to teach them the Word of God so that they can develop into becoming young men and women who will be able to stand on their own feet but also to be agents of positive change in the society.
During these 17 years, over 100 children went through our home. As our motivation says: “Healed by love – to show God’s love” we wish that the children who come to our Home, may have an encounter with God and through that, they will be inwardly healed (as many may have experienced a lot of abuse and trauma) and finally they may become a blessing for others by showing God’s love that has changed them.