Children have rights too

It is housed on a second floor balcony in the old church where the Albert Street School for Refugee Children is located.  Five hundred vulnerable refugee children now attend school there, of whom 200 are orphans.  It all began in 2008 when xenophobia peaked in South Africa.  The CMC has become a "social cosmos" for over 2,000 refugees.  It provides shelter, education, retraining, food, legal advice and medical aid.  The school goes from prep through Standard Six.  There is also a creche.

The permanent exhibit has the support of GTZ, SADC's Peace, Security and Governance Programme, CMM and the Solidarity Peace Trust (SPT).  Our guide there was Father Mike of the SPT.  The original exhibit designed by Goetz Berger, Andreas Gessner and Godfrey Maguma for Trinity Anglican Church that opened first in Gaborone was much larger and also focused on violations of human rights faced by Zimbabweans.