- Personal: towels, shoes and clothes, medical supplies, cleaning products. NEW MATTRESSES! Done, thank you!
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- Improved security: electric fencing around the grounds. Security funding
- For the garden and grounds:
gardening tools (wheelbarrows, spades, rakes etc), vegetable seeds and
plants, trees and anything that will help them grow fast and strong,
fencing and building materials to improve the livestock pens.
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- For the buildings:
hot water in dormitories and staff housing, more outside toilets
(done), guttering (done), fire extinguishers (done), wood for carpentry
to make cupboards and tables, cleaning equipment and products, kitchen
equipment, wood for cooking and an electric stove.
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- Educational and recreational:
sports equipment, wood for carpentry, material for tailoring, books and
teaching materials, CD'S, beads and wire for beadwork, IT technical
support.
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- Administration:
the staff team do a fabulous job but a greater reserve of funds is
needed to ensure that we can commit to decent salaries and meet the
various administrative overheads on a continual basis.
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- Transport: we now have a donkey cart, motorbike and a pickup. Buses for outings are courtesy of farms. Funding of fuel, insurance etc
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| Food,
medicines, clothing, school fees, security, insurance, electricity,
repairs and renewals, wages, have to be paid on a monthly basis. Please
consider this. Thank you. |
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| Longer-term goals |
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- Enhance facilities: revamp the decoration of the building, increase sports and recreational facilities.
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- Expand: we have the infrastructure to cope with more children but we need funding to cover increased overheads.
- Increase social interaction:
currently the boys have very little exposure to girls their own age and
live in a fairly isolated environment. The decision to make the shelter
single sex was a practical one but we need to find ways of increasing
opportunities for contact with other children and girls in particular.
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- Develop educational curriculum:
update texts, materials and syllabi, remedial workshops to focus on
enhancing basic skills. Funding for secondary school and uniforms.
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- Develop vocational training:
expand the carpentry department, increase computer facilities and
develop IT training, pursue customised training geared to give each
individual the best chance of obtaining work (for example driving
lessons, mechanics, welding).
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- Achieve 100% success rate in work placement:
develop network of participating companies and organisations prepared
to offer work experience and contracts to our graduates. Jobs for
graduates really needed now.
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- Continue the drive to make the shelter as self-sufficient as possible: improve and increase livestock facilities, increase vegetable production, expand fund-raising activities by the boys.
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