Acacia History:

 

In Namibia, it is tradition for the extended family to take care of children who have lost their parents. The crisis has, however, reached such a dimension that family networks can no longer cope.

We are striving to keep and support orphans within their family environment for protecting the unity in the family and for safety purposes.

 

Most of these children live in female (Grandmothers) or child headed households; they are ”orphaned by their fathers”. Most often, these children are not receiving adequate nourishment and are under a great deal of pressure to drop out of school and work to support the family.

 

Children without a family network are emotionally traumatized and in real danger of being isolated, abused, exploited and terrorized. With their family-based form of childcare, Acacia enable abandoned and orphaned children to once more become rooted within their own family units and society.


Back to the nature:

 

We believe in the Acacia Erioloba principals well known as Camel thorn:


1        Grows in arid and harsh conditions.

2        It gives safe haven to both humans and animals alike.

3       It provides excellent shade and pods are of economic value as it is being used as fodder and sold for income by rural communities.

4        Most Africans use the bark of this tree for medicinal treatments.

 

Acacia Children Trust (ACT) was established after numerous requests from different families and community members to assist them with their orphans, vulnerable and abandoned children, to bring the above mentioned value and norm’s back in to the community. Started in 2000 with 40 OVC’s whom were taken on a holiday socio - edutainment camp to farm Nooitgedacht 75 km’s south west of Maltahohe in Hardap region.

 

Our aim is to share what we have with OVC’s, to give them the opportunity to change their attitude towards nature and our desire is to increase young people’s ability to control their lives and to build a secure and sustainable future for them.

 

It’s time for us to go back to Nature and observe the magic that are surrounding the nation and to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the biological diversity of life in Namibia, by the lands and waters they need to survive on for the future generations. 


Gen 1:26 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth"