Do
you want to get involved with Garram Children’s School and
Orphanage?
We
shall be happy to work with you. We can use your help!
First
and foremost, pray for our work.
Donations
and funding for specific projects are always needed. You can
select a project from the list of projects set out below that
we hope to implement and assist us implement it , provide a
scholarship for one or more of our staff, board member to attend
an international study course, fund a building or renovation
project or make regular monthly contributions to any of our
project plans.
Volunteers
will bring the much-needed skills to our school/community, sharing
their enthusiasm and blessing us with their willingness to work.
We need volunteers to train our staff in Education, Health Care
and Community Empowerment Programs and other office and grounds
work.
Projects which need your assistance to undertake include, but
are not restricted to:
•
Adult literacy and vocational education
• Alcohol and drug prevention program
• Ambulance for clinic referrals
• Boarding facility/feeding program- including Building
of Hostels
• Drill boreholes in 12 communities which host most of
our children
• Expansion of clinic facilities including building and
renovation of clinic*
• Fencing of the School
• Games equipment and facilities-sports / recreational
facilities
• Girls education
• HIV/ AIDS [ anti- stigma , screening and rehabilitation
program]
• Internet Facility
• Library- Building and Furnishing
• Partnership development and service of volunteers
*
Although services are provided free to the disadvantaged that
are registered in the School and the elderly in the community,
it is expected that if a good diagnostic laboratory is established,
the funds derived therefore would be used for the running of
the clinic, thereby reducing its dependency on external sources
Further
details of some of these projects is given below
Further Information on Various projects for which we are seeking
funds
1) PRIMARY HEALTH CARE - The school has a 10
bed clinic established in 1996/1997 to provide primary health
care for the School. It, however, also provides services to
the wider community. The school arranges for a medical doctor
from the Jos University Teaching Hospital and the Plateau Specialists
Hospital to visit the clinic monthly on a private arrangement
and as needed to offer additional medical services to the community.
This clinic needs to expand to meet the growing demand for its
services. The immediate need is to have the clinic well furnished
with the basic and necessary diagnostics equipment such as are
available in comprehensive health centers (about 200 km from
the community).
2) GIRLS’ BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM - The
Girls Basic Education Program consists of two parts. First to
enable more girls be educated at Garram Children’s School
from primary one to primary six. Second providing continuity
from the primary to the secondary section in the same school
, under the basic education program of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria. We want to encourage parents to send their girls
to be educated at Garram Children’s School. This will
reduce the high illiteracy rate in the community which is both
a cause and consequence of poverty and underdevelopment. Literacy
provides a means by which people and communities can attain
greater control over their destinies. We want to continue this
program but have no funds. We would like to work with donors
who will support the education of girls in our community.
3) HIV/AIDS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES EDUCATION AND CONTROL
PROGRAM - HIV / AIDS is having a negative impact in
Garram Community. Women are more seriously affected than men
both in the proportion infected, their roles as caregivers to
people living with HIV/AIDS. We have identified some sensitive
issues surrounding AIDS, such as the stigmatization of affected
and infected persons. We would like to take action on stigmatization
through the organization and delivery of workshops and seminars.
Furthermore, the following health concerns will be addressed:
immunization practices, nutrition, maternal and child health,
including, birth control and substance abuse.