World Child Outreach ProgramOffering a secure future to children around the worldContents
OutlineThe Humanitad World Child Outreach model is being developed as an holistic approach to the critical requirements not only of ‘street children’ but also of the economic and social environments in which this growing & desperately serious sub-culture takes root. Sheltering the children whilst preparing them psychologically, emotionally and socially for inclusion into their cultures and societies as well as providing them with a financial kick-start will afford them an opportunity to lead fulfiling and meaningful lives. a vigorous promotion of interfaith & intercultural fellowship within the education curricula Humanitad ‘FAMILY-COMPOUNDS’ will remain as a family base & touchstone FOR THE ADOPTED CHILDREN WITH CONTINUED monitoring OF THEIR ONGOING welfare FOR the duration of their lives Street Children of the WorldIn countries across the world from Ghana to Brazil, India to Zimbabwe, Romania to Mexico there is a problem which simply does not go away. Indeed it is a problem which cannot go away. It involves the misery, abuses and deprivation suffered by millions of street children. Children born into a life which not only rejects them from birth but which offers them little or no salvation. The objective of the Humanitad World Child Outreach agenda is to establish a revolutionary model for permanent ‘family-homes’ for street children - whereby once a child has been adopted into an Outreach Family Home it becomes a permanent touch-stone for life. What is unique about a Humanitad World Child Outreach home?Emphasis on interfaith and intercultural fellowship. In todays climate of interreligious friction and ignorance there can be few more important issues at stake than promoting fellowship beyond religious and cultural divides amongst children of the world. A Humanitad Outreach home has this education instruction built in to the curriculum and into the extra-curricular activities. Where do we begin? ....with you the patron-sponsorWe encourage direct engagement by select ‘Patron Sponsors’ with their outreach home. ‘Patron Sponsors’ are invited to develop an on-going relationship with the staff and children of their Outreach Family Home. Humanitad will ensure that there exists a fluid and open channel of communication, dialogue and exchange between the Sponsor and their Outreach Family Home. .....and where do the funds go?Humanitad does not place funds into the hands of any third-parties, middlemen, agents or local officials. Humanitad Foundation does not even handle payment itself. We simply ensure that the Sponsor’s donation goes directly to the Outreach Family Home and then maintain the relationship between the Patron-Sponsor and the designated charity. Furthermore we monitor the Outreach Family Homes hygiene, education curricula and extramural activities schedules for the children as well as working toward ensuring that they are able to enter secure employment and living arrangements on graduation from the Outreach Family Home. Benefiting the child and the nationAdopting children into the Outreach Family Home - from as early an age as six or seven years - and inspiring within them a sense of extended family will create the bedrock for purposeful life and expression. By further educating and skill-enabling these children - equipping them for a future with hope and purpose - we essentially inject into both the local and national social economic strata a highly valuable resource: skilled labour, healthy minds and bodies and most importantly rehabilitated young men and women with a sense of meaning and destiny. Benefiting you the Patron-SponsorParticipation in a Humanitad World Child Outreach programme outside of being a viable tax write-off opportunity allows for positive Public Relations and positive in-house Economic viability..........sustainability?If the programmes are implemented with a realistic and commonsensical approach - they will succeed. Where local and international corporate sponsors and donors see a thriving model - sustainability becomes ensured. Indeed - we will see to it that the arts and crafts output is channelled correctly through to tourism and export demand. What choices do the children have?A central tenet of the Humanitad approach to all humanitarian activity is a belief in the inherent need within the ‘human creature’ to find a true sense of purpose and self belief through one’s own inspired path. A human being is only as valuable as his or her own estimation of themselves - and it is to this end that each Outreach Family Home student will be monitored and encouraged to identify their own skill and direction. We will simply marry that identification as best we can with further employment and vocational choice. What is the broad structure?Humanitad Outreach Family Homes serve as schooling, board, clinic and skill-enabling environments. This involves the children in many aspects of their own welfare ie: gardening, cooking, cleaning, animal husbandry etc... In this way the children learn cooperation and skills not only inside the schoolroom and workshops but outdoors as well. The Humanitad Outreach Family Homes engage the children in arts and crafts programmes which serve to generate their own ‘start-up’ security in the form of a ‘youth pension scheme’. On leaving the Outreach Family Home each child will be placed into secure work and accommodation. We would for example create avenues of basic employment (cleaners. cooks, gardeners etc..) linked directly into our family of corporate sponsors. Other rehabilitated young adults would leave us with skills sufficient to carve their own paths in life. Who are the Outreach care-takers?Assisting the permanent Outreach Home staff we are recruiting first world university students (on gap-year leave) as well as young graduates in the social sciences, language studies, education and the humanities to work as ‘outreach caretakers’ teaching and supervising the centres. Each family-compound have their own permanent staff. Some of the Outreach Family Home graduates are expected to become active in establishing further program. How many street children will benefit?Each Outreach Family Home houses approximately 50 children. As the national programme develops then further Outreach Family Homes will be set up in the appropriate national regions. Exponential growth will be realised through sensible appraisal and economic viability nation-by-nation. LINKING IN MEDIA & INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITY SUPPORTHumanitad are proud to have the support of a number of international celebrities from film, fashion, music and sport. We will encourage inspirational visits to the Outreach Family Homes intermittently from amongst our celebrity supporters. From motivational speaking to workshops these inspirational visits will also serve to highlight the World Child Outreach programmes to a wider world audience. For further information regarding the WCO structure and curricula please contact: PROGRAMME ADMINISTRATIONDr. Dezso Benedek - (U.S.A & China)
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