Ways to Help Orphanages be Self Sufficient.
There are too many African orphans for the number of orphanages that exist, and many of the orphanages in Africa are having difficulty finding the funding to care for the orphans they have. Let's discuss ways to help African orphanages become more self sufficient.
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I have worked as a volunteer for Hearth to Hearth Ministries promoting their work with orphans. I have worked on their websites www.hearthtohearth.org and www.spotlightonorphans.org As the websites placed higher on search engines in Africa more and more orphanages contacted us to sponsor their orphanages. These orphanages were struggling to care for the orphans that relied on them. Hearth to Hearth Ministries is already caring for more orphans than they have sponsors for and can not help any more orphanages with money until more funding sources are found. I still wanted to help these other orphanages, many of which did not have a way of sharing with people the work they were doing for orphans. So, I started a website that features orphanages from around the World and the work they are doing to help orphans.
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Many orphanages also run schools. These schools can be open to children in the community. Through school fees an orphanage can generate revenue to help support the orphanage. The problem is schools cost a lot to start.
Schools not only cost a lot to start, they also cost a lot to operate effectively. There are thousands of schools in Africa where textbooks are shared among many children. Some classrooms have only one textbook for the entire class. Imagine trying to teach a crowded classroom full of children who don't even have textbooks.
Additionally, teaching materials are minimal or non-existent. African teachers must be extremely creative in order to be able to effectively help the children to learn. They use copybooks and have their students copy detailed diagrams into their copybooks relative to the subject at hand. This serves to embed the material into the mind of the student. However, even copybooks can be difficult to obtain.
A pencil, a pen, or a tablet of paper is a very welcome gift for a child in Africa.
I remember going to school here in the US and kids didn't even look at their books. They had so many they didn't appreciate them.
The children in Kenya do not have books and they would give almost anything to have one book of their own.