The big picture!
We have a range of goals for The Ujamaa Children's Home, but are prepared to take each step at a time to ensure that our progress is sustainable in the long term. For Lucy and Carley, The Ujamaa Children's Home is a life long commitment and they intend to provide the best possible care to all the children they take in, thus they need support to be able to help more kids!
The Children: Ujamaa Children's Home believes that to provide optimal support to the children, we will limit intake to 12 children for now. We would want to provide each of these children with a full private education in the best possible schools; ensure each child has a full and healthy diet and optimal health care, which may include psychological health care if needed; and to provide opportunities for the children to be children- more outings, birthday parties and rewards. We also intend to be able to support the children well into adulthood, so if they choose tertiary education or vocational training they will have a support system until they are able to support themselves.
The Home: We are currently renting a house for the children to live in, but it is our goal to buy a plot of land and build a permanent house. This house will have the potential to house 12 children, however, we know that as children grow their needs change and as such our house will have different areas for different age groups. There will also be space for staff, play areas, learning areas, a lounge/dining space and the sense of a home. For environmental and health reasons, we aim to have a garden in which we can grow our own produce, solar panels to cut down electrical costs and the creation of other programs to enable to home to become a more self-sustaining project.
The Staff: Ujamaa Children's Home has wonderful staff and as our resources grow we would like to be able to provide greater recognition to the staff for their hard work and generosity. This would not only mean more staff with better wages, but also opportunities for the staff to have education and further training, and to be able to provide greater support to their own families.
The Children: Ujamaa Children's Home believes that to provide optimal support to the children, we will limit intake to 12 children for now. We would want to provide each of these children with a full private education in the best possible schools; ensure each child has a full and healthy diet and optimal health care, which may include psychological health care if needed; and to provide opportunities for the children to be children- more outings, birthday parties and rewards. We also intend to be able to support the children well into adulthood, so if they choose tertiary education or vocational training they will have a support system until they are able to support themselves.
The Home: We are currently renting a house for the children to live in, but it is our goal to buy a plot of land and build a permanent house. This house will have the potential to house 12 children, however, we know that as children grow their needs change and as such our house will have different areas for different age groups. There will also be space for staff, play areas, learning areas, a lounge/dining space and the sense of a home. For environmental and health reasons, we aim to have a garden in which we can grow our own produce, solar panels to cut down electrical costs and the creation of other programs to enable to home to become a more self-sustaining project.
The Staff: Ujamaa Children's Home has wonderful staff and as our resources grow we would like to be able to provide greater recognition to the staff for their hard work and generosity. This would not only mean more staff with better wages, but also opportunities for the staff to have education and further training, and to be able to provide greater support to their own families.
How we'll do it!
The Ujamaa Children's Home is primarily supported by the fundraising efforts of The One By One Foundation (www.theonebyonefoundation.org) based in Australia. On top of this we need on-going Sponsors to support basic needs, education and housing for the children.
