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Khayelihle Children's Village (KCV) is located about 12 miles outside of Bulawayo's city center. Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, a country in southern Africa.

The mission statement of Khayelihle Children's Village is to provide each child with shelter, food, educational, medical and spiritual guidance in a loving, stable, home environment.

Khayelihle, pronounced K-eye-uh-lee-shlay, comes from the IsiNdebele language and is translated a "beautiful" or "good" home.

Khayelihle Children's Village has five houses and other farm buildings situated on a 270-acre farm.

The houses are home to more than 80 orphaned or abandoned children, their caregivers and the farm workers. The children are orphaned primarily because of the AIDS pandemic.
	The farm provides food for the children from the dairy herd, beef cattle and chickens, a vegetable garden and field crops.
	The three to five-year-old children attend a pre-school, the Southern Cross Learning Centre, located on the farm and the older children are transported to area schools.

In addition to the residential care, KCV assists children through the community Orphan Care Programme (COCP) that cares for just over 100 children who reside in the city of Bulawayo.

Khayelihle Children's Village is directed by a local Board of Directors.

Jabulani Xaba, Director, third from the left. Mrs. Vuma, Board member, right. Lovemore Soko, Board Secretary, second from left.

Jabulani Ndiweni the field worker for the COCP programme.