The story of the Orphanage Home begins, just as every wonderful story: very small. 2010, one small room where the auspices of the Handmaids of Christ the Priest were giving health support and one child at the age of a teenager, vulnerable, orphan and sick. The auspices decided to see it as their task to care for the child, which included giving him a place to live and to sleep, food and also access to education. By virtue of this one child the auspices became aware of the numerous orphans nobody was able to care for, living in Lesotho. There was already a boarding facility included to the auspices convent but it had not enough capacity to help a bigger amount of children. They decided to write proposals to institutions and organisations all over the world in the hope to receive help and support in their aim to establish a home for those orphans. Fortunately they got a positive respond by the Springfield Rotary Club of Ohio which wanted to support the project. With financial and individual help of the Rotary Club, it was possible to construct the main building and to begin with several more projects such as the rabbit keeping and the piggery. After that everything went very fast, already in 2013, the Orphanage Home was officially established and opened. About 42 children from many districts in Lesotho arrived at the Orphanage Home to start a new capture in their lives. Since then, many additional projects, buildings and ideas have shaped the Orphanage Home. Even now the development didn’t stop, every day, we are still adapting and improving our area, imaginations and attitudes. 

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Why Andrew Blais?

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​Fr. Andrew Blais was a missionary oblate of Mary Immaculate. He is the founder of the institutes of Christ the Priest. His dominant features of his strong personality were Charity, Kindness and Compassion. His Passion for caring for youth promoted him to establish a boystown to care for the needy and vulnerable boys of that time. 
The orphanage home was named after this ardent apostle and courageous man god.