Child Legacy International Inc. is a Christian nonprofit working in Africa to transform lives and break the generational cycle of poverty and despair. We develop the key resources of reliable power, clean water, healthy food and farming, vocational training, and life-saving health care in the rural communities that need them most.
Our mission is to cultivate opportunity, self-reliance and sustainability, preparing a fertile soil where hope can grow. CLI provides sustainable development to more than 120,000 rural Africans every year.
Formerly known as Life Sowing Ministries, Child Legacy International first began operating in Zimbabwe, Africa, in 1987. Founded and still directed by Jeff Rogers, CLI has made great strides to bring opportunity to the people of Africa— breaking the cycle of poverty and helping people help themselves. The organization focuses on education, health care, clean water, and the development of sustainable farming.
Realizing that meeting immediate needs was not enough to make real lasting changes, CLI designed, planned, and strategically delivered a new approach to humanitarian relief work—the Sustainable Program Development Model. With a foundation of wind and solar energy, the Sustainable Program Development Model can be implemented in remote areas far outside national electricity grids, and it can be replicated anywhere in the world.
Child Legacy International has worked to build sustainable communities by providing life-changing programs. By facilitating access to clean water, proper nutrition, medical care, education and training. CLI Inc empowers individuals and families with the vital resources they need so they can make a lasting impact in their communities and change the nation as a whole.
The Life Sowing Training School, our vocational training center in Zimbabwe, has graduated over 10,000 students, with over 80% retaining income-earning jobs today.
Since the Labor & Delivery Ward opened at our hospital in Malawi in 2015, it has seen over 7,000 healthy births.
CLI operates a 500-acre farm in Malawi that uses modern irrigation and permaculture techniques, and employs nearly 100 local Malawians in planting, crop management and harvesting.
In Malawi, wind and solar power electrifies CLI’s on-site clinic, hospital, and surgical wards, as well as staff housing, guest quarters, indoor plumbing and hot water tanks.
CLI teams are repairing wells in Malawi at a rate of 1 per day.
1992-1999
With Zimbabwe suffering from drought and food shortages, CLI implements a comprehensive feeding program, providing over 60,000 rural people with a nutritious meal every day for seven consecutive years
1993
Chingele Clinic opens, providing basic medical services, labor and delivery care, and HIV/AIDS counseling
2007
Second Sustainable Program Devlepment Model site begins operations in Msundwe, Malawi
2008
CLI begins repairing water wells in villages throughout Malawi, bringing clean water to thousands
2009-2012
By developing wind and solar power systems in Malawi, CLI establishes renewable energy as the foundation of the Sustainable Program Development Model, making it possible to build and operate a hospital and many of CLI’s other services
2010
CLI begins irrigating and cultivating 75 acres of land in Msundwe, using agriculture to provide food, sustainability, education and dozens of jobs
2012
CLI Hospital in Msundwe opens, providing free medical care to meet a wide range of needs—from vaccinations to surgeries
2012-2016
CLI collaborates with researchers from Ohio State University to conduct community-based health research in Malawi that provides baseline data for health care policy and services
2015
CLI Hospital in Msundwe opens Labor & Delivery Ward
2019-2020
CLI plants 8,000 macadamia trees in Msundwe, along with bamboo and coffee plants, laying the groundwork for new agricultural markets
2022
CLI establishes Moyo Goods, a new business that will better commercialize the harvests of the Malawi site and provide a sustainable funding stream for the CLI Hospital