Community, Education & Smart Farming
Street Feeding Program
Mum's Love Children's Home apart Orphanage Facility, supports street families through Feeding program, mentorship, spiritual teachings, clothing, hygienic self love advocacy, first aid in case of emergency and other supply of commondities as per available resources/agencies in kind gifts.
Soweto Slums has a large number of familes whose bread winners have no employment, relaying on one time casual work ( a person can successfully get or rearly get work, if advantaged either twice or thrice a week). The area due to poverty it tends to have alot idleness in the community, this drives into alot of drugs and substances, sexual, gender based violences abuses; cheap traditional alcohols (illicit brews) and majority of the parents ends up negelecting their parental responsibilities thus neglecting their children. And by that most adults end up to be in the streets as street families.
As a community changer we decided to serve them with one meal Lunch per day for six days a week ( Monday to Saturday) and in between thw week on Wednesday they get spiritual mentorship. We do also feed their children every lunch and some we do breakfast and give them Education due to their vulnerability. The program demands alot in terms of financial and commodities resources.
Education Program
Smart Angel's Community Centre
Smart Angel's Community Centre is Project of Mum's Love Children's Home started in November 2023 as a mentorship and feeding program to 200 children from both orphanage and community during long holidays. Thereafter early January 2024 when the Kenyan schools resumed back to sensation after long holidays is when we realized that some of the mentorship children were not going to school due to lack of school fees, stationaries, uniform and foodstuffs. This compelled us to start a community education Centre with 50 children.
The 50 children who came back to Mum's Love Children's Home as Learners because they felt that the orphanage was their place to learn as their school. Their need felt was as a result of the vulnerability of the familes they come from who were not able to take them back to school.
The proprietor of Mum's Love Children's Home together with Board management felt these need and therefore started by converting 4 dormItories into classrooms to meet the felt need. From there they consulted further measures on how to regulate both the orphanage and education Centre.
The children and Education department advised the management to separate school from the orphanage. This made the orphanage management take the intiative of looking for an ideal leasing land to set up a school.
After a long search, the management found a land where it was a den of illicit brew (cheap illegal alcohol) which we managed to change to a community facility through the support from online social media welwishers.
Current Situation
In year August 2024 the population of orphans and vulnerable children of learners from the community has risen from 50 children to 150 children from play group to grade 2 level with help of 6 qualified educators. The number of children continues to grow each day due economic challenges placed on families who care for them. As days goes by the number of higher classes are to be added.
The challenges faced by the community Centre that needs intervantion by Wellwishers, Donors, Sponsors, individuals and any other source of support as per the need shall highly appreciated.
Needs per child monthly is USD $ 20 ( food, Labour, school learning materials, rent, electricity and water bills, Teachers stationaries, communication and uniforms) . The Education sector currently needs USD $ 3,000 monthly to fully sponsor all 150 learners.
Climate - Smart Farming Program
The organization wants to start an income generating activities to sustain the programs and the projects it is implementing. To do this the organization will work to promote sustainability of Mum’s Love Children’s Home through climate Smart Agriculture project that aims at reducing carbon. Mum’s Love Children’s Home concept is to sustain its objects with sustainability climate Smart Agriculture that is aimed at sustaining its beneficiaries feeding program and raise resource to meet some of the bills such as payment of children school fees, educational learning materials, school uniforms and games kits, advocacy programs to community, children rescue and unification program, staffs salaries, project administration costs and poor families food baskets for children supported through Kinship program.
The organization vision statement is to initiate a permanent resilient and sustainable smart agriculture farm to offer solution to the sustainability of Mum’s Love Children’s Home objects to the beneficiaries and reduce dependence. The mission and goal of the project is to produce farm output to support Feeding program, and general expenditure needs Mum’s Love Children’s Home and benefit the community where the project is located through supply of water and foodstuff market needs. This will help combat climate change and achieve sustainable development.
The organization objectives are aimed at mobilizing resources and buy 10 acres of Land where the climate smart agriculture project is implemented. Mobilize resource for drilling 2 bore holes and installations of water storage tanks for drip irrigation and community benefit. Mobilize resources to build storage facilities for foodstuffs, Equipment, Pesticides, food processing and cooling area and office. Recruit, train and support volunteer workers from the community in partnership with agriculture department, forest department and water department and other stakeholders. Work with stakeholders and identify potential ready market for the farm produce both locally and internationally. The project will be profitable to community by providing employment and water supply, increase tree cover both local and fruit trees and reduce carbon emission and global warming. This project needs resources for its actualization - a total of USD $ 135,656 is needed.
Our Rabbit Project
Our Chicken Project
Our bees Project
