Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Report on the visit to Happy Life children's home by Dreams Campaign on 2nd april 2011

INTRODUCTION
Dreams Campaign is a Community Based Organisation that helps fight child abuse through awareness to the public through activities that bring people together for a common purpose which is to help the child.
 
HOME LOCATION AND BRIEF HISTORY
Happy Life children’s home is located in Roisambu in Kasarani off Thika road. It was started in 2001 with only two babies and has now grown to sheltering over fifty children aged between 2days old to 7 and a half years old.
 
PURPOSE OF THE VISIT
Dreams Campaign purpose for the visit was to help in the services of the day for the home to help relieve the staff and to also spend time with the children.
 
WHAT DREAMS CAMPAIGN DID

  1. Cleaned the rooms where the children played, do their studies and also where the children slept.
  2. Fold clothes of the whole home.
  3. Changed the beddings to the children’s beds.
  4. Hanged clothes on the lines that had been washed.
  5. Plaited the girls’ hair
  6. Fed the children and helped in putting them to sleep
WHAT DREAMS CAMPAIGN TOOK TO THE HOME
Dreams Campaign through its members managed to take a list of things that included:

  1. Baby clothes
  2. 12 packets of pasta
  3. 25kgs of maize flour
  4. 4 kgs of baking flour
  5. 5kgs of rice
  6. Ripe bananas
  7. Packets of sugar
TARGETED APPEARANCE
People who attended the visit were 30 members. Some of the members it was their first time to come to the visit and others had been visiting the homes with Dreams Campaign.
 
CHALLENGES FACED
We reached the home a bit late because everyone had not yet arrived so it took quite some time waiting for everyone.
Dreams Campaign could not get everything from the list of the things that the home needed but lacked since most of its members are in college.
Dreams Campaign members were informed of the visit quite late making the turnout low as to what had been estimated.
Lack of funds that could to enable Dreams Campaign partner with the home.


LESSONS LEARNT
Departure time to an event should be given ample time for waiting for people to arrive to avoid being late.
The larger the number of people the easier the work.

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