The school is central to providing safety as well as an education
Progress is slow due to lack of funds
With the largest economies around the world all struggling to recover from the debilitating effect of lockdown measures imposed to combat Covid -19, the news that Russia had invaded Ukraine came as a real hammer blow. The resulting rise in the the costs and collapse in exchange rates have hindered even the most generous people in donating. People have still been very generous, but we have seen donation levels drop since the pandemic. The knock on effect of this has meant that the building programme has been slow and monies raised are just keeping the school operational while taking the opportunity to build when the money is available.
Building benches for the children
Tools and the finance to build a woodwork training centre were both donated by kind ‘Friends of the Emily Collins School’. It is called ‘Jim’s Shed’ because Jim’s two daughters donated everything to set this up once Jim, their father, had died. This now serves as a workshop providing furniture for the school and is almost self – sufficient through selling furniture to local community and will take on apprentices to train youngsters in carpentry.
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Vision
To become a centre of excellence for providing education and wiping out ignorance through skills development in the served community for a productive national development.
Mission
To provide a holistic education to the orphans and vulnerable children through spiritual, cognitive, physical and social empowerment development approach in the served communities.
Our Aims and Objectives
- Our aims and objectives focus on addressing positive national development:
Increase the number of children attending education and extend adult literacy services to empower communities and facilitate productivity. - Establish various advocacy initiative outreaches to help caregivers and vulnerable children appreciate the value of education.
- Empower children and caregivers through spiritual development basing on our vision from John 14:2 “In my father’s house there are many rooms…I go to prepare a place for you’’.
- Advocate for the rights of orphans and vulnerable children, in order to make a positive impact in their lives now allowing them to develop into fulfilled adults.
- Provide medical care and extend water services to families in need, addressing sanitation and hygiene related challenges.
- Train communities in environmental conservation and climate change as a means to sustain the environment.
- Increase the number of parents and caregivers accessing positive parenting services.