ESM Future Development

ESM Future Development The ESM vision is to expand El Shaddai Ministry to the next Phase which we will call Phase 2. The purpose for expanding ESM to another location has been made clear for many years through several meetings between Swaziland’s Child Welfare Department and El Shaddai Ministry. Most of ESM’s children at Phase 1 have been placed there by the Child Welfare Department and other similar organizations. El Shaddai Board of Directors and the Children’s Welfare Department feel that in order to give the children the best possible care the number of children living at each home should not exceed 50. At present ESM Phase 1 has reached capacity.   Because ESM Phase 1 has reached capacity, the need to begin the next ESM Children’s Home is of great importance. The vision is to duplicate the ESM Model of caring for needy children, in other locations of Swaziland, helping as many children as possible. As Swaziland continues to deal with the reality of the HIV/AIDS pandemic they have been faced with, as the adult population continues to decline, thousands of children are being orphaned. Because of the magnitude of the problem, grandparents, relatives and community leaders are feeling overwhelmed to say the least. ESM feels compelled to join in the fight to save the children being left behind from a life of poverty, disease and hopelessness that is in the wake of the HIV crisis.