MINISTRY OF HOPE LESOTHO is a home for infants, children and youth in Maseru, capital city of the Kingdom of Lesotho, in southern Africa. The Ministry was created in 2009 to nurture the quality of health for impoverished and orphaned children, before returning them to their families or placing them with adopted families. We have cared for more than 150 children in our first decade, providing a home, and a future, for this country’s most vulnerable citizens.

Ministry of Hope Lesotho was co-founded by Mamonyane Mohale, a nutritionist and public health nurse, and Nancy Dimmock, a former mission co-worker with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Mamonyane left her position with the Christian Health Association to focus on improving the lives of children in her country. Her plan was to create a maternal health clinic that would encourage breastfeeding as a means of improving physical and social outcomes for newborns. 

This focus quickly expanded when dozens of abandoned, abused and malnourished children and infants were suddenly placed in our care. In 2010, the national government shut down a poorly run orphanage in Maseru and asked Ministry of Hope to take in the children and help them find homes, either with relatives or with adoptive families. Ministry of Hope took on the work of nutritional and developmental rehabilitation, as well as family reunification research and adoption placement.