Orphaned children and youths are the most vulnerable and most of the time their rights are violated. Since these children and youths do not have a choice especially when they are orphaned. Your support can give these children all they need to grow up healthy – mentally, physically and spiritually. Every child deserves safe shelter, plenty of food and a chance to get an education. Many precious little ones are trying to survive day to day – unprotected from abuse, hunger, violence and sickness. If you want to rescue and protect these vulnerable children this sample project can help you to develop your idea into reality. The mission of sample project is to ease the suffering of disenfranchised and orphaned children; promote holistic development and provide an enabling environment in which the children can reach their fullest potential, thrive and become healthy, well-adjusted, productive members of their society. This sample proposal has different methods to achieve the project objectives. Use this sample proposal to know the proper work plan, objectives, methods, strategies to develop your own project.
Background
The organization is a non-profit dedicated to the wellbeing of children without parents, and under-served children in Nepal. It helps to create secure and nurturing family and community support for these children so that they will develop well, and grow up feeling family love and community inclusion.
The organisation partners with existing orphanages and communities in need, when requested or invited. Then it helps them establish and maintain a sustainable program of improved care for their children. This work is being carried out in collaboration with the Central Child Welfare Board of Nepal who has requested our assistance in creating a community-based program that could be implemented country-wide in an effort to create a positive, systemic change in the social welfare system and in the communities’ perception of orphan care.
The vision of the organisation envisions a permanent systemic change within the child welfare system; allowing children without parents in Nepal the opportunity to grow up in a home environment with a stable family unit including siblings, surrogate parent caregivers and strong community ties. It envisions each child achieving their maximum potential and becoming productive members of society, through integration within their “families” and community in an environment of dignity and respect.
Statement of the Problem
In Nepal there are 974,000 orphaned or abandoned children, about a third of them living in institutional orphanages or “children’s homes”, deprived of their basic rights. Untrained caregivers are unable to provide adequate care for the children. Their formative years are spent without proper support or the opportunity to create critical bonds with family figures, or community. Many of the children develop attachment disorders, become developmentally delayed, physically disabled or mentally compromised. Upon leaving the home, they feel rootless, often lacking the social & organizational skills required to thrive in the outside world, and ultimately, they become a burden on the society that has failed them. This is a global problem, not specific to Nepal.
Project Mission and Goals:
It is the mission of the organization and proposed project to ease the suffering of disenfranchised and orphaned children; promote holistic development and provide an enabling environment in which the children can reach their fullest potential, thrive and become healthy, well-adjusted, productive members of their society. The organization Goal is to promote holistic development for young children and provide an enabling environment in which disenfranchised children can thrive.
Project Objectives:
- The primary objective is to educate, mobilize and assist the community to establish a family-centred, community-based system for the care of orphaned children.
- Facilitate sustainable change from institutional-style “care-giving” to family centred “parenting” in a home-like setting, in partnerships with existing orphanages and local community stakeholders.
- Create a scalable, repeatable model for communities throughout Nepal and other Countries
Project Strategies-Method of Achieving Objectives
To achieve its objectives the organisation uses the following strategies:
- Collaboration with community as primary stakeholders, beginning in the planning stages, utilizing skilled Nepalis to facilitate buy-in and maximize commitment and participation.
- Provide community education, incentives and inclusion to help positively impact orphan and caregiver status in Nepali society, and create a foundation for community integration.
- Train caregivers of traumatized children to have knowledge, skills and empowerment, and transform themselves to “Mothers”. Create ‘family’ groups with a caregiver “mother” and 10-12 children, who are the “siblings”
- Provide on-going psychosocial counselling that is culturally consistent with Nepal to assist traumatized children and caregivers in Emotional Resilience techniques and support in living as a “family”.
- Improve local education. Beginning with establishment of Early Childhood Education programs at the Centre for the whole community, and expanding to the local schools in the area.
Beneficiaries of the Project
The beneficiaries of the program are orphans, abandoned children, disenfranchised children; local community children and their families; widowed and otherwise socially excluded women; elderly without families; and the overall community.
Methods of Project Evaluation
The programs and services of the organisation project will be evaluated using a three-tier mechanism involving internal staff assessments, consumer evaluations, and external evaluations by organisation Headquarters and outside consultants. This three-tier approach will allow the project to benefit from the hands-on experience of the staff and the stakeholders and participants, while at the same time incorporating the objective feedback of independent consultants. Internal Evaluation: The Program Coordinator and the advisors for the program will meet quarterly to assess whether the programs are meeting objectives that can produce concrete outcomes on behalf of the children and community to be served. Program staff will make adjustments to the program as necessary. Consumer Evaluation: The program Coordinator will conduct regular consumer evaluation and update, assuring that the needs of children, staff and community involved in the program are getting those services that are most effective and beneficial for them. This will be done quarterly through interviews and field surveys. External Evaluation: An outside consultant will review complete planning blueprint and conduct field visits to assess whether objectives are being effectively met through the program activities being carried out. Adjustments will be made as necessary and a report on model and best practice elements of the program will be produced.
Project Outcomes
- Healthy social, physical, and psychological development for orphaned, abandoned and disenfranchised children
- Increased community commitment to children’s rights and ownership of activities and goals toward real transformation in the care of orphaned/displaced children.
- Empowered women and elderly (surrogate mothers and grandparents) as respected decision-makers who occupy a central role in orphans’ nurturing and development, and the social inclusion of women previously treated as outcasts in the community.
- Creation of a ‘community’ in its truest sense through the development of commitment and ownership of an ongoing set of activities and governance structures for the local care of displaced/orphaned children.
- Orphans grow up to be valued members of a broader community who are active, socially integrated citizens.
