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Bright College Nawanende Organisation Programs

Special focus is given to increase opportunities for equal access to education of
Orphaned-children, the needy children, and other vulnerable children from within their family-environment; and support to poor orphan-caregivers (widows, child-mothers, unemployed single-mothers, grandmothers and other elderly foster-parents) regardless of race, tribe and religious-creed.

We are dedicated and mandated to address issues of: “Child-survival and Child-development;” “Women empowerment;” and “other community-based programmes
Programs of Bright College Nawanende

Special focus is given to;

Increase opportunities for equal access to education of orphaned-children, the needy Girl-child, and other vulnerable children from within their family-environment; and
Support to poor orphan-caregivers (widows, child-mothers, unemployed single-mothers, grandmothers and other elderly foster-parents) regardless of race, tribe and religious-creed.

Strategic Program Objectives

To give equitable opportunities for and access to socio-economic empowerment of vulnerable children & youth, poor-women and communities in difficult circumstances (through interventions for formal and non-formal education, talent and spiritual development, skills-equipping, access to health and sanitation facilities, and address Gender issues and HIV/AIDS outlook, micro-enterprise support for income generation, food and nutrition security; and mitigation for psycho-social therapy to reduce discrimination and stigmatization that foster enhanced esteem and enjoyment of rights).
To develop and undertake child-sponsorship-programs as resource-mobilization-strategy for logistical-support needed for timely vulnerable-children’s education, basic health-care and other basic welfare-needs required for effective and meaningful child-development (through interventions to source logistical, technical, material and financial support and partnerships with local and overseas philanthropic individuals, foundations, sponsorship-agencies and networks, churches and other development-stakeholders willing to support our goals).
To embrace and contribute towards influencing child-friendly and women-pro-active policies, legal-framework, structures and attitudes to impede children’s and women’s oppression and facilitate enjoyment of their rights and freedom (through interventions for rights advocacy, increased involvement and participation of policy makers and implementers at all levels).
To build capacity of children, women, orphan-caregivers and community to address their needs and execute their rights in a sustainable way (through support and increased community-dialogue and advocacy for equitable opportunities for access to education, fight poverty, ignorance, high illiteracy-rates and disease among targeted groups for them to enjoy full rights and freedom).
• To support child and young people’s evangelical missions to harvest new and lost souls and nurture broken hearts in pursuance of building the body of Christ (through child and youth-friendly bible club-events and missions that ensure holistic Christian-child and youth-development a reality in the lives of children and youth and mentor them into useful citizens who can take biblically-based and responsible decisions).

Specific Program Objectives

Offer material and financial support for the education of vulnerable orphans, the needy child/youth from within their family-setting and encourage creation of family-supportive structures (for proper nurturing and protection of children from infancy to adolescence since introduction of children to culture, values and norms of their society should ably begin early in life within their family-setting).
To promote and support vulnerable children, poor women, youth and orphan-caregiver-households access basic essential services package for improved welfare (through interventions to support or establish schools, children’s-homes, health and other basic welfare facilities).
To promote child-survival and child-development by ensuring a continuum of community mobilization, dialogue and other approaches for: awareness-creation, care and support to “HIV/AIDS infected and affected children and poor-families” and increase people’s understanding on AIDS scourge and other development issues (including sensitization on gender issues, rights of infected persons, community responsibility and socio-economic mitigation).
To empower the socio-economic capacity of women, needy orphaned children/youth and vulnerable orphan caregiver-households with entrepreneurship-training, start-up grant-facilities (capital) and technical advice to access and manage less-burdensome yet affordable micro-credit facilities (revolving fund) for; self-help micro-project initiatives to poor caregiver-households that often lack adequate logistical and financial resources to cater for the needs of children under their care (through interventions for socio-economic empowerment of Functional Adult Literacy, IGA-Projects that enhance copying mechanism of affected vulnerable families and communities for progress and self-reliance).

Bright College Nawanende Other Programs

Functional Adult Literacy Program
Targeting reduction of illiteracy-rates among women and youth of 15years and above by developing their basic reading, writing, numeracy, expression/spoken and other functionality skills that stimulate and enhance their social-esteem and improve living standards

Youth talents and Vocational Training Project (VTP)
To empower trainees through apprenticeship skills development in Brick Laying, Piggerry, Poultry, bicycle & motorcycle repairs and maintenance, crafts-making, tailoring, art and design as well as beauty salons skills-equipping and management

Family Economic Support (FES) and Civic Education Project
Capacity building to empower communities understand and execute their rights through community-dialogue and training in Income Generation Activities including; entrepreneurial micro, small business and agricultural advisory services and skills etc

Child Sponsorship Program
With the help of elected Community Project Committees (CPCs), our social workers and volunteer-staff identify, select and enroll the neediest among the needy orphaned and other vulnerable children as beneficiaries to the Project. Each needy or orphan identified and selected for participation is initially assessed to determine the academic, health and emotional etc, base-level of functioning at the time of entry to the project hence helping us to assess the child’s educational, medical, emotional and other needs at the point of entry to the project. (The enrolled child’s bio-data is processed for future reference, analysis and follow-up during implementation, monitoring and evaluation purposes).

Providing care and support to vulnerable-children at the Children’s Home with food, accommodation, clothing, health-care, educational needs, and above all, parental love to nurture and instill esteem among them. Children at the Home stay fulltime with the Chief Director and some social workers. (These are children in dire need of alternative care; either because they have been orphaned and isolated or, abandoned, physically or emotionally molested or abused and abandoned and none of their close-relatives or family-friends are willing to take on extra responsibility or burden of fulltime care for them)

Education support to enrolled vulnerable-children within their family-setting (with basic school meals, uniforms, scholastic supplies and basic heath-care) and to encourage creation of family-structures (for the nurturing and protection of children from infancy to adolescence while introducing them to; culture, values and norms of their society necessary for full and harmonious development). Girl-child, Orphans & other Vulnerable Children’s Education Project

Achievements
• Established a secondary school with classrooms and dormitories
• Provided educational-support through interventions of; school-supplies, basic meals, care and education service delivery to children at the Project School (for vulnerable children to pursue education at kindergarten, primary as well as a few to secondary and vocational level).
• The Functional Adult Literacy Project which has empowered 25 Adult-Learners to attain National Certificates (after passing the National exams set by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development; They can now read bibles and other basic literature in religious assembly-fellowships, keep basic records for their business, sign cheques in banks, operate phone-sets and freely participate in community leadership hence increasing their esteem for purposeful life).

Challenges we have Encountered
• Limited resources to meet the overwhelming demands of enrolled children’s basic needs for access to basic education, care and support; (meals, shelter for learning and accommodation, health-care, clothing, school-supplies, psycho-social therapy and co-curricular development).
• Lack of opportunity to identify serious donors willing to support our rights-based, child-friendly and women-pro-active program-activities.
• Rampant illiteracy and low levels of education among our target groups (vulnerable children, youth & poor women) makes communication and understanding of contemporary development issues difficult.
• Rapid population growth of the targeted groups that is poverty-stricken and in desperate need for support (poor orphans & widows in the community due to HIV/AIDS scourge & unemployment) hence creating internal social burdens to the caregiver-families and the organization for redress.
• Lack of financial resources to cater for emoluments and logistical support of fulltime professional teaching and non-teaching staff at the Girl-child, Orphans and other Vulnerable Children’s Project School and Secretariat.
• Limited financial and technical capacity to build a website to share our ideas with the global family of development actors for resource-mobilization to fund our programs (including starting Income Generating Activity feeder projects that sustain programs as we lobby donor-grants).
• Poor temporary-infrastructure of the established Girl-child Project School making it a crucial challenge for the organization’s need for construction and equipping of the school with logistical facilities that is teacher-learner-friendly hence conducive enough for effective teaching and efficient learning.