ELAHISTON ORPHANAGE AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION was founded in February 2019 by Musisi Gerald who grew up in a poor and needy family, became an orphan, an abandoned child. Pastor Nangoli Jimmy, known as Pastor Sureman, was his guide through this time.

At its founding, Elahiston had 13 children, 6 boys and 7 girls. As of now we have a total of 46 needy orphans and village children. We hope to help more children in the future through this program.

The vision for ELAHISTON ORPHANAGE AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION is to be a channel of hope to helpless children, by expressing the love of God to them, making a warm environment to restore hope, and to produce young responsible citizens.

Our emphasis is on being a Christ-centered, loving home to all the children as we raise them.
ELAHISTON's mission is to teach this generation to fear and serve God.

We focus on promoting education, feeding and clothing needy children, and providing health and economic development.

The people involved in the ELAHISTON ORPHANAGE AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION strive to:

1. Love every person for excellence.
2. Help to restore hope in the lives of African needy children.
3. Be a responsible citizen in the community.
4. Respect the equality of all people.
5.Create a warm environment and good education for the hopeless children.
6. Be a mother to the motherless and a father to the fatherless.

ELAHISTON ORPHANAGE AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION members strive to
1. Produce psychosocial therapy within self-help groups and self-reliant skills. The children are taught how to relate with others, and how to deal with their emotions at all times of life.
2. Build capacities of poor, vulnerable families to be able to respond to socio-economic challenges.
3. Provide quality education to the poor and needy children of Africa, and to provide formal education/vocational skills training for them.
4. Restore hope to the hopeless in the local community. We look forward to having our own schools, which will be helping our children grow Spiritually as they and their families and community are exposed to the love and redeeming Gospel of Jesus Christ.
5. Feed the needy children, transforming them into people that will grow the community.

Currently the children attend different schools in the area. We help to pay their school fees.
In our own development programs, our children have received goats and pigs, helping them learn how to raise animals. We monitor this project throughout all stages.
Also, we can teach them livelihood skills such as making bags, tailoring, hairdressing, driving, and more.
We conduct prayers every time we meet, both Christians and Muslims. We do not reject non-Christians as we show them God’s love, teaching all children how Jesus loves the World and gave His life for all of us.

ELAHISTON ORPHANAGE AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION does not require a fee to register a child.
ELAHISTON ORPHANAGE AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION prioritizes total orphans and partial orphans between 3 and 17 years old.
For children not staying at the school, the distance from the school to the child’s home shall not exceed 5km so that the child is able to come for school activities whenever he/she is needed.
Not more than 5 children from one family shall be registered.
Children who have both parents who are unable to meet the basic needs of the children shall also be registered. (Highly vulnerable children)
There shall not be any segregation of children based on denominational background or Serostatus.
Children sponsored by other donor agencies shall not be registered.
Every child is entitled to have a file at the school for record keeping.
Care givers/parents shall always attend Annual Meetings where they shall be taught child protection and child development.