COMMUNITY-BASED CARE AND SUPPORT FOR BOTH ORPHANS AND

VULNERABLE CHILDREN
PROJECT PROPOSAL
PROJECT NAME:Orphans and vulnerable children
needs support
PROJECT IMPLEMENTER: Advent Aid Rehabilitation Center
REGISTRATION NUMBER:
DGCS/413/2011
TELEPHONE: +254706710227
WEBSITE: www.barbarahafrica.org
E-MAIL: info@barbarahafrica.org
TARGET POPULATION: Orphans and Vulnerable Children in families
with orphans and people having HIV/AIDs
Contact Person: Sophy Awuor and Herbert Badia
Cell : +254 717273289 /+254706710227
Email : sophyawuor200@gmail.com/herbert.badia@gmail.com

Vision: Is to find a permanent solution to orphans with their families who lack access to
the basic human needs:

Mission: Is to improve the standards of living of the orphans and support

their families to access the basic human needs for sustainable
developments.

Core Values: Transparency, Accountability, Team work and Respect for Human
Dignity.

OBJECTIVES.
The overall objective of this program will be to improve the quality for orphans and
vulnerable as well as children and people affected by HIV/AIDS; to be carried out in
Lake Victoria region, areas with a high incidence of HIV/AIDS (15.8% of the total
population).
The project strengthens community support systems and economic capabilities to
enable the local communities to reduce the vulnerability to the socio-economic
impact of HIV/AIDS.

We provide children with necessary knowledge with which to control or change the
environment for the benefit of an individual farming and community.
 To equip all the children with self independence skills which enables them to
live independently as full members of the society.

 To integrate children for better interpersonal development through

education, religious and extra curriculum activities for solid child
development.
 To provide nutritional diet to all children to eradicate malnutrition and for
healthy growth.
 To develop children’s personality and the building of all solid educational
foundation and personal growth.
 To facilitate holistic development of a child
 To help the children to be self reliant members of the community
 To initiate income generating activities to provide sustainability of the
children / centre

 To provide orphan / semi orphan / street children, a childhood that they

never
 experienced and help them to become useful members of the
society.
 To encourage orphan / semi orphan / street children to kindle their potential by
providing Creative opportunities
 To make available a secure place where orphan / semi orphan / street children
can play and enjoy their childhood.
  To provide basic education to orphan / semi orphan / street
children.
 To provide such welfare services like free lodging, boarding, health and
recreation
 To provide basic literacy and facilities for those who wish to study
further
 To select and prepare for a vocation in order to live on their own
legs
 To accomplishing physical, intellectual and aesthetic development of
the child
 To initiate sustainable development to cover poverty reduction
and Food production among other things
 To educate families on proper child grooming and family planning.
 Ensuring children have a safe school environment and complete their
primary education

 Promoting access to early childhood development (ECD) programs

 Ensuring personnel create child-friendly and HIV/AIDS-and gender-sensitive
classrooms
 Strengthening community-school relationships, including partnering with
out-of-school programming

Problem statement
As we recognize that the children occupies a very unique and privileged position
in the African society and that for the full harmonious development of their
personality, the child should grow up in a family Environment and in an atmosphere
of happiness, love, guidance and understanding! From a child’s physical and mental
development, they require care in regard to physical, mental, moral and social
development.
Rural parts of Kenya have got large number of orphans than urban centers
because people living in rural areas are not sensitized on prevention methods of
HIV/AIDS. The age of orphans, however, is fairly consistent across parts of the
country. Surveys suggest that about 15% of orphans are 0-4 years old, 35% are 5-9
years old, and 50% are 10-14 years old.
But despite of the efforts to improve the lives of the children, social indicators
continue to show a decline in social and economic welfare of children. Also
low levels of education among the whole population of the community has also been
attributed to the increasing number of Orphan children as a result of HIV and AIDS
scourge, poverty and poor health conditions. Worst of all,the child-headed
household
trend in Kenya is such that rural areas have 79.9%, of which 49.6% are male-headed
and 30.3% are female-headed. The trend in urban areas is that of the 20% child-
headed
households, 10.5% are male-headed whereas 9.6% are female-headed (Bureau of
Statistics-UBOS, 2000).
The complexity of the problem of child poverty in Kenya is large and growing, and
cannot be ignored when designing national development and poverty reduction
strategies. Unfortunately, children especially orphans continue to be marginalized
irrespective of interventions where by assumptions are made that interventions
that
address adult and household needs are also good for all children, including boys and
girls of school-going and non-school-going ages. This partly explains why child
poverty is underrepresented in most studies on poverty in Uganda (Save the
Children UK, 2003)
PROJECT DURATION
Once we get the funds it will be a permanent model centre for other parts of
Kenya although it will be subjected to forensic yearly audits and evaluation to
determine its viability. We plan to set up structures and sources of income for the
project that will ensure long term sustainability of the project.

PROJECT BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION

The problem of orphan / street children is acute due to urbanization and industrialization.
Due to the deaths of HIV/AIDS affected persons, Re-marriage of deserted / widowed /
divorce women, absence of love and security in the families, Family disputes, Unwanted
pregnancy of Trafficking / Sexually exploited girls; these orphan and street children are left
without care and support. These children are involved in rag picking; pick pocketing and
participating in anti social, criminal activities. Therefore, we envisage mainstreaming
these children in the national building by providing care, support and protection in our
Program.
Environmental degradation caused by pressures on land, soil erosion and
overgrazing is common. Some families keep livestock such as cattle, donkeys, sheep
and goats. Other sources of income include fishing, hawking, sand harvesting,
quarrying, livestock trade and casual employment.

People live in homesteads where the extended families build their houses. A
homestead can accommodate up to five families. Polygamous lifestyle is highly
cherished and widely practiced among the men. A traditional house has the walls
made of poles and mud and the roof of grass, some of the roofs with iron-sheets .

The project was started in response to the plight of the needy as a result of poverty
which has made many susceptible to drug abuse, prostitution, HIV/AIDS infection,
and early marriage, child labour and school dropouts as a result of desperation.

Currently the project provides basic needs to the orphans and other vulnerable
children namely:
a. Educational needs: -Shopping for books, other reading materials and pen as
well as geometrical set for the needy children. We also been organising
sponsorship to those who are unable to continue with there education (small
scale sponsorship) with which we have been able to support 10 needy children
to university.
b. Clothing: The children need clothes of various kinds and T-shirts, jackets and
school uniforms etc
c. Medical care (Drugs):- Drugs of common children diseases as malaria,
headache, stomach-ache and ringworms etc these are purchased locally in the
pharmacy / chemist shops
 d. Food – children feeding program: the project undertakes school children
feeding program of providing breakfast and lunch to the children . Therefore.
Supper they take at their caregiver’s homes, which we also provide support
towards.

PROJECT METHODOLOGY
The project is implemented by way of Home Based Care Management , whereby the
orphans and other vulnerable children live with the care providers who can be next
of kin , foster parents, friends, relatives i.e very old grandmothers left behind after
the demise of their beloved sons , daughters and other relatives. The orphans and
other vulnerable children come to learn and have their meals.
The older ones at the upper primary have their meals either with the younger ones
at the Nursery school or have their lunches at the care givers’ home since some
caregivers stay next to the primary school and can walk home. And in the evening
they go back where they live and treated to home based care management.
Those with no one to rely on, we plan to come up with a children’s home to cater for
them.
Challenges currently facing the community are enormous but the major ones
are:-
 Poverty as about 60% of the local people live in abject of poverty, not sure of
basic needs i,e food, educational needs for their children, health care with no
proper housing as many live in houses not fit for human habitation.
 The population pressures have resulted into land scarcity and what used to
be marginal land; forests etc are now invaded to expand Agricultural
activities causing serious deforestation.
 Poverty links with environmental degradation for many locals survive by
degrading the natural environment; hence poverty becomes a major
contributor to environmental degradation. i.e unsustainable and poor
utilization of natural resources to biodiversity losses.
 HIV/AIDS pandemic causes various problems / challenges I,e loss of labour ,
talents, brain drainage of intellectuals, professional, skills etc , high costs of
medical bills , increased over dependency ratio as adult in prime age dies
leaving behind the old and orphaned children.
 Gender stereotypes and women inequality and marginalization in several
spheres i.e in education, training, job opportunities, property ownership i.e
land etc
 Early premature marriage of the girls.
 Prostitution and high HIV / AIDS infection.
 High escalating drug abuse and raising crime rates
 High school dropout rate and growing child labour.

ORPHANAGE / CHILDREN’S HOME (FUTURE PLAN)

The project plans to establish an orphanage as some orphaned children cannot
locate or early have care providers. These are children living under special difficult
circumstances i.e street children found on the streets, born out of wedlock whose
mothers have died of HIV/AIDS and now the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Hence the originality cannot be traced. And therefore a children’s home becomes
ideal/ necessary. The orphanage establishment is a subject to availability of funds /
resources.
 Strategic program 2015/2017

ORPHANS

 Educational support
 Home based care
 Emotional support
 Nutritional support
 Moral and spiritual guidance
 Material and basic support

YOUTH

 Life skill training

 Education
 Income generating activities
 Recreational activities

COMMUNITY

 Health care
 Skill training and empowerment
 Self help groups
 Income generating activities
 Environment
 Sanitation

No Project Title/Programme Description in Brief Beneficiaries

Projects such as Heifer Marginalized families with
1 Social & economic Support for OVC production, Poultry, fruits and orphans & vulnerable
Families. cassava growing will strengthen children
the capability of the OVC
households to reduce poverty in
the homestead.
Training & Provision of Youth in Primary, Secondary
HIV-AIDS awareness. HIV/AIDS Preventive Messages Schools &women and men.
2 on awareness as the main stay of
HIV control.
This program will assist the Communities with orphans &
3 Sensitization on Human Rights Issues. people, especially Grand mothers vulnerable children, young
and girls to be better able to deal boys and girls in Schools.
with living in a world where
HIV/AIDS is a critical reality.
Support Formal Educational Educating and provision of fees Orphans & vulnerable
4 and scholastic materials to children
orphans in primary &secondary
schools
Establishment of a Vocational/Resource Project will impart in the youth Women, Men, Orphans
5 Training Center vocational skills & farming &vulnerable youth.
methods.
This Program is aimed to improve Communities with orphans &
6 Hygiene & Sanitation hygiene among vulnerable groups vulnerable children, Schools
to avoid diseases i.e. cholera, and Health centers
dysentery.
Environmental protection This program is aimed to protect Communities (women, Youth
7 environment & used as income groups) with orphans &
generation. vulnerable children

Breakdown of Program Costs

Cost Category Cost in US$
Staff 10,000
Transport 3,000
Capital costs 7,000
Other non-capital 3,000
Food 5,000
Training 5,000
Other family support 6,000
Drug and medical supplies 6,000
Sub-total patient care cost 45,000
Orphan and Vulnerable children support 7,000
Total cost 52,000

Table 8.
* The costs of orphan support have been identified separately in order not to distort
the direct patient care costs; orphan support is not a core program service, but it can
be a significant cost.