The Aims of Kwathu Children’s Home are:
- To provide a place for orphaned and vulnerable children to call ‘home’
- To empower children to sustain themselves in the future
- To provide education and practical skills training
- To promote and strengthen children’s talents
- To develop a child’s potential through life skills and guidance
- To care for children who might not have a chance to be sheltered
The work of Kwathu Children’s Home is intended to be a reciprocal relationship, whereby if a child finishes tertiary education and secures paid employment, they sponsor another vulnerable child within Kwathu Children’s Home.
Kwathu Children’s Home assists orphaned and vulnerable children through the provision of:
- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary education.
- Shelter, food and other basic needs
- Skills training in cooking, arts and crafts, music, tailoring, and carpentry
- Psychosocial support and biblical principles to children affected or infected by HIV.
- Social and spiritual guidance
| Outputs | Objectives | Outcomes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Have a place for orphaned and vulnerable children to call home | • Provide shelter, food, care, medication and psychosocial support in a healthy, stable and safe home environment. • Provide children with increased access to health services through ARV therapy and information provision • Provide love, care, nurture and spiritual guidance • Provide a typical Zambian family setup where children grow up as brothers and sisters | • Increase security of children • Reduce HIV infection rates • More children accessing ARV therapy, reducing their vulnerability. • Improved health and nutritional status • Increased understanding of Christian values • Improved confidence, self-esteem and self-worth. • Growing up and developing within a family. |
| 2 | Empower children to sustain themselves in the future | • Provide primary, secondary and tertiary education • Provide practical skills training in cooking, trades, and carpentry • Provide psychosocial encouragement and support to children • Provide a role model healthy family setup • Give children personal responsibilities including chores, housework and laundry | • Increase future job possibilities • Increase opportunities for children to earn income in the future. • Raise personal responsibility in children • Increased knowledge of healthy family life |
| 3 | Educate and train children | • Provide primary, secondary and tertiary education • Provide skills training in cooking, arts and crafts, music, and carpentry • Provide additional school lessons to children who are weak academically • Provide support and nurture to children during school • Use Christian values to bring positivity into children’s lives | • Increase access to education • Improved attendance rates for vulnerable children, including girls • Increased access to training • Increase positive and hopeful attitude towards life • Develop responsible Zambian citizens |
| 4 | Promote and strengthen children’s talents for their survival | • Provide opportunities for children to express themselves through art and music to increase self-esteem • To make available a space that is appropriate for children to feel comfortable sharing experiences, differences and similarities. • Provide guidance and life skills • Provide spiritual guidance based on Christianity | • Increased wellbeing of children on an individual and community level. • Increase a child’s potential • Increased self-esteem and confidence • Foster the children’s sense of strength, achievement and pride |
