A Complete Home in an Incomplete Town
A complete home in an incomplete town: being a centre for holistic care in a disrupted environment.
Sobre ti
Sobre ti
Nombre
Henk
Apellido
Olwage
URL en Twitter
https://twitter.com/#!/light4tchildren
URL en Facebook
Sobre tu organización
Nombre de la organización
Light for the Children Foundation
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Namibia, OK, Gobabis
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Namibia, OK
Tu organización es
Sin fines de lucro
Tu rol en la Educación
Oficial de recursos.
Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:
Otro
¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
Más de 5 años
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Innovación
Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento
Establecida (pasó las etapas anteriores y ha demostrado éxito)
¿Hace cuánto que viene operando tu organización?
Operando más de 5 años
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
There is a need for complete, holistic child care in societies which are disrupted, seemingly aimless in their destitution, unco-ordinated in their being. Why should there be such specialzation and fragmentation between different organizations, when all can be under one roof? After independence of Namibia, people started to move all over the country. Sges old populations were torn from their roots. The laid back nature of people belies the fact that they are deeply uprooted. We have to look after the deepest needs of children in their family context.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
To create a home, where adults with gifts and abilities and compassion can be at the service of children and their families; to invite every beneficial contribution, locally and internationally and bind it into a comprehensive whole.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
A child may cvome to our centre, from his shack where we had been doing repairs and helped his grandmother to cope with the HIV/Aids of her daughter, to our centre where he will receive a slice of bread and tea, have preschool, receive lunch, and be tended to his physical needs, like clothing, health and psycho social support. When in Primary School, he will come for lunch and afternoon study, and there wll always we members to council and help where needed. He will see his uncle working in our project garden, his cousin doing needlework and will have access to our computer center and carpentry. Step by step he will grow up, not in a children's home, but in a home, a genuine home from home. This model fits in best wit the African way of living and the extended famly.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
We compete with orphanages and formal schools, but only in a limited sense, because a real home has no competition!
Ahora que has pensado en tu innovación, ayúdanos a presentarla.
Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
A complete home in an incomplete town: where children may be made whole. Poverty and all its consequences can't beat our heartbeat.
Identifica lo que es innovador en tu solución en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
The comprehensive nature of our program and its organic nature, best described as an ecology of human biodiversity.
Impacto social
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¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Many children progressing toward adulthood and showing their loyalty toward the foundation, while adults are also involved.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
More and more children entering young life and adulthood as project participants and leaders.
Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
Establish a computer centre, which we have started to build
Tarea 2
Strengthening our afternoon program to include teacher's training
Tarea 3
Establish our own soccer team
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
Building a carpentry workshop and include young adults in the training
Tarea 2
Involve the local chamber of business and agricultural sector
Tarea 3
Expand to another town
Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
Our organization started in one of the seemingly most hopeless places in the world, a setlement of people uprooted from their cultures, workplaces and birthplaces, a diverse community where tribes couldn't speak each other's languages, an unemployment rate of 90% and HIV/Aids rate of 30%. INside this community, some friends did small things, which taught us the value of small, bit strong, in initiatives. Caring came naturally for our original members, but they fought a lonely battle - till we realized, we can do it together, with all resources put together, all in one program - it was "Light for the Chilren!". From that moment, all we did was to retain our original idea and expand on it.
Sostenibilidad
Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.
Through the Church Alliance for Orphans, we link with Unicef, USAID and various national bodies. The Church forms partnerships on that level and we partner with organizations in the Netherlands, through a twinning agreement. Furthremore we partner with an enterprise in Germany.
¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?
We lean heavily on community involvement, as we were founded by community members. Therefore we work with a team, rather than a staff, of 18 people locally; sometimes more, depending on what we do.
Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista
We are a living experiment and would like to share with others in the same kind of venture. For example, how to make a self-sustaining home from home, where agriculture, spiritual life, care, teaching formal and informal, manufacturing, all this in an energy efficient way and contributing to the natural environment, are intertwined to form a whole, benefiting children.
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