Our latest project is Lotti Latrous' heart project - our village "Village AYOBÂ L'Espoir", which can be roughly translated as "Good Day Hope". In September 2019, we were lucky enough to acquire a piece of land of around 2,500 square metres with dozens of old palm trees, which borders directly on our Centre. Until then, it was the waste pit of the neighbourhood. We explained to our neighbours that we wanted to do something good. And to all those who had their small businesses on the edge of the rubbish pit, we promised that they would not have to move away, but that we would create space so that they could continue their sales. We built the new village primarily for old people who suffer from chronic diseases. Diabetes, for example, if not treated, can lead to blindness and/or amputation of limbs, so it is important that these people get comprehensive help. But we also want to take in disabled and paralysed people in the village. They have it particularly hard in Africa. There are countless of such people who have to live in undignified circumstances; they usually only get help from neighbours who usually have nothing themselves. We opened our new - intergenerational - project, in which disabled and/or sick people get more than a roof over their heads, as soon as the Corona crisis was over in December 2020. Our new - intergenerational - project, in which disabled and/or sick people get more than a roof over their heads, was opened in December 2020, as soon as the Corona crisis was over. It consists of thirteen houses, a large African kitchen, six toilets and six showers and a prayer room each for Christians and Muslims, as well as a chicken house to have some fresh eggs every day. And the children from the orphanage often come to visit, filling the little village with laughter and shrieks. They have found grandparents, and our seniors grandchildren - it is a world of joy and happiness!

The childrens’s home was opened in 2007, in the same building as the Center of Hope Two was housed in back then. We couldn't build on the land, which we were supposed to receive from the municipality because of the resistance from the inhabitants. They didn't want to have any Aids infected children in their vicinity. Back then, we were only left with the option to build another floor on top of the existing hospice.

Today the children’s home is located in a detached one-family dwelling, the gardens adjoining the land on which the two centers are built. The children’s home can accommodate up to 50 children (offering 20 bunk beds and 10 beds for babies or toddlers). A large living room provides ample space for playing as well as for doing homework. Covered open air patios grant enough room for the children to play and dwell even throughout the rainy season. The lovely large garden with its many large, old, shady trees is a huge plus factor and an ideal play area.

We accommodate and care for children from early infanthood to young adulthood. The children go to school and have the opportunity to receive a vocational training or to study further. The goal is that they can provide for themselves once they have left the children’s home.

A pedagogue also belongs to the team. She helps the children with their homework. We celebrate birthdays, Christmas, Easter and many other occasions, creating nice memories and also always providing something to look forward to. On Wednesday afternoons volunteers come to play or do handy craft with the children and from time to time they organise excursions either to the sea, zoo or they visit a factory. We believe that despite their previous tragic experiences we enable the children to lead a happy childhood with us.

The hospice was opened at the beginning of 2002. At that time there was neither electricity nor water and the work had to be carried out for months with kerosene lamps. The water had to be bought outside.

Initially the center was called "Hospital for Terminal Cases". Hundreds of poor people came to die there, especially young mothers who were infected with Aids, bringing with them their infected children. Their husbands had either died previously or had left them. So the children they left behind remained in our care. To enable the mothers to die in peace and with a clear conscience we promised the mothers to look after and care for their children.

In those days Aids was a fatal disease; today it has become more a chronic illness. Patients who are diagnosed with Aids at an early stage can continue to live a near normal life with appropriate medication.

Our hospice has become a place where many can find refuge. Especially old, severely disabled people whom nobody can or wants to nurse elsewhere. We cannot accept the state of degradation these impoverished people have to suffer, so we take them in and provide refuge. Sometimes they can enjoy a further few nice years with us and then die in dignity and surrounded by love.

We also accommodate adults and children suffering of cancers in the various terminal stages. Usually they come too late, the body already being full of metastases. They could die in a public hospital, but often they cannot afford this. We try to provide a caring and dignified surrounding for their final days.

We have 20 beds in the hospice. The employees consist of nurses, cooks, nannies and guards. And daily consultations are conducted by one of our three doctors.