HEART FOR AFRICA INC

Project Canaan is Heart for Africa's 2,500-acre compound in Eswatini. Providing vocational training and employment to adults allows them to care for their families, interrupting a generational cycle of poverty and abandonment. We are raising the next generation of successful adults for Eswatini, with a focus on education, community and service through our rescue of abused and abandoned babies and commitment to raising them to adulthood. We want to save lives throughout the country by feeding thousands of hungry orphans and vulnerable children each week.

With over 300 students this school year, the ultimate goal of Project Canaan Academy is to provide the best educational resources available to help the children grow into the future leaders of Eswatini.

At the Sisekelo Preschool, the children receive an early childhood education that promotes the development of lifelong learning and success. Upon completion of preschool, children move on to Project Canaan Academy for Kindergarten and their primary school education. As they grow, new classrooms and the necessary staffing will be added each year to accomplish the subsequent educational objectives, with middle school starting in 2022 and the high school in 2025.

The clinic also has dental facilities, used by visiting/volunteer dental teams from the U.S. and Taiwan that perform routine dental care, extractions, fillings and other necessary dental work for our children and employees.

Within Project Canaan (our development in Eswatini), we have created a farm and jewelry factory which employs almost 400 Swazis. This allows them to go home and provide food and care for their families.

We have created a pipeline from 2 fresh water springs in the Mountains to provide a continuous source of water. Also to provide a means of growth on the farms which are also self-sustaining.

$850,000 was raised to complete our water project that establishes water security for Project Canaan! This gravity-fed pipeline brings the water down the mountain to Project Canaan. There are springs at the top of the mountain, where dams have been constructed to capture and redirect the flow of the water along with the first 2+ miles of pipeline. When the project is completed, it will allow for continued expansion of agricultural development and support the dairy and egg layer operations so vital to feeding programs. It will also provide access to water for the chiefdoms adjacent to Project Canaan, ensuring that thousands of people living in homesteads all around the farm will be able to plant crops, harvest maize and care for their families utilizing the water from the pipeline.

HFA has long term volunteers who live in Eswatini to take care of and educate the children. Like them, on a short-term basis, we have interns and volunteers who come to Eswatini to provide assistance in any manner needed. We also host service trips bi-annually where participants are able to experience Eswatini through serving the children at Project Canaan as well as in the community homesteads and church partner feeding programs.

Last year, over 4,500 meals each week to orphans and vulnerable children throughout Eswatini. These meals are providing vital nutrition literally saving lives. We are able to deliver food to hungry orphans and vulnerable children through our network of 30 church partners in Eswatini. We feed over 3,000 children each week and provide nearly 20,000 hard-boiled eggs each week.

HFA's ninth Emseni Children's Home is being built now. At the current rate, there will be nearly 450 children by the end of 2024. They will live at Project Canaan until they've reached adulthood, receiving a quality education and excellent medical care through the El Rofi Clinic which provides primary care to all of the children living there. It provides education, testing and counseling for HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, family planning and other routine care for employees and families.
Utilizing greenhouse and crop production, Project Canaan is once again growing crops to feed its children and employees year-round. We are able to sell excess crops to the community at a fraction of the cost and use the minimal profits to go back into crop production.