WINGS OF A DOVE COMMUNITY CENTRE
P.O. BOX 59615-00200 Nairobi, Phone no:0723252771
Email:wingsofadove254@gmail.com
ORGANIZATION PROFILE
INTRODUCTION
Wing of a Dove Community Centre is located about 27
kilometers from Nairobi City Center. The Centre is situated off Kangundo Road,
in Ruai opposite Embakasi Ranching Company and next to District Children
Office, Njiru Sub County on the Eastern part of the of the Kenyan capital City
of Nairobi.
Wings of a Dove Community Centre started as
informal group in 2004 in Dandora, Njiru Sub County, Nairobi as a day care
Centre where children were taken care off as their mothers went to look for
casual work within Dandora. The women group later registered as a community
based organization (CBO) with ministry of gender, culture and social services
in Embakasi division in 2005. Due to lack of employment and extreme poverty
majority of the mothers abandoned their babies and as a result the home started
in order to address the needs of the abandoned and neglected children.
CHILDREN PROGRAMME
Wings of a Dove Community Centre lay its emphasis
on giving the orphaned and vulnerable (OVC) poor children a holistic
rehabilitation. More than 31 children are provided with full care at Wings of a
Dove Community Centre. We work towards bringing up children who know,
understand and fear God as part of their spiritual growth. We reintegrate the
children back to their families after we have conducted the necessary assessments
and home visits. We have been able to rescue children in difficult
circumstances and reunited them back to their families.
We emphasize on the provision of the basic human
rights for the children of education, food, shelter and clothing. We provide
food that has the necessary nutrients for their healthy growth. We provide
quality education to the children by sponsoring them and ensuring that they
achieve their ambitions. We also provide psycho social support and counseling
when the children are under rehabilitation in the program. The children also
participate in sports and perform their duties and responsibilities as part of
their training to be responsible citizens of our nation in the future.
In December 2016 wings of a dove was officially registered
as a Charitable Children Institutions (CCI) by the government. After the
registration our donors withdrew thinking we had been involved in fraud and
hence ruined our reputation. This being not the case as we had been instructed
by the relevant authorities to change our name from Stars of Hope to Wings of a
Dove Community Centre. Since then we’ve not had any other interested donor.
We’ve already exhausted our funds and hence not able to pay rent or even get a
bigger house where we can comfortably raise these little angels. In November
2016 Dolphins Real Estate assisted us by paying rent for five months after
which the owner asked us to move out with no reason. The director talked to
different local churches bishops and pastors asking for donations and or a
place to stay. Only one bishop from Jesus Christ Our Hope church agreed to
accommodate the children in the church and even allowed them to use the
compound. The bishop allowed Wings of a Dove to establish temporary buildings
to hold the children before they could get a place of their own.
Wings of a dove moved from the rentals to the
church on 10th of April 2017 and have been sleeping inside the
church. This is as they await to get help from well-wishers, sponsors and
donors to help them purchase a land and build a place of their own.
CHALLENGES FACED
1. Our
main problems have been inadequate funds to run the home and a place of our
own.
2. Another
challenge has been paying the workers and hence left to rely on well-wishers
and volunteers to work in the home.
3. With
the doctors and nurses striking, buying of medicine and getting quality
treatment has been a major challenge to us.
4. All
our children attend school, we have four girls in secondary, three in Jadamy Elite
Primary School, and 20 are home schooling waiting to join a private school
which has offered to sponsor them in primary and higher learning.
5. Buying
of stationaries, shoes, uniform, sport kits and books.
6. Getting
fuel e.g. fire wood, cooking gas or charcoal is another challenge.
7. Another
major challenge is food and water. Ruai being a dry area, the main sources of
water are the borehole and water from the city council which is only available
2 days a week for four hours only.
REQURIMENTS
1. Buying
land and building a new home.
2. Buying of
stationaries, shoes, uniform, sport kits and books.
3. Currently
we require materials to build a temporary building in the church compound.
4. Money
to pay for treatments and buying medicine.
5. Money to
buy fuel e.g. fire wood, cooking gas or charcoal.
6. Money to
pay workers and pay for utility bills.
7. Money to
buy food and toiletries.
The aims and objectives of the Home are:
·
To assist needy children satisfy their basic human needs;
·
To ensure security of education, food, shelter, and the protection of their
basic human rights;
·
To empower children with knowledge and skills for self reliance as well as help
them nurture their talents;
·
To support the children in their personal development through moral,
spiritual and social support, as well as professional counseling;
·
To support the Family Reintegration Process.
MISSION
To be the leading preferred
Centre, for the destitute, orphaned and vulnerable children in the provision of
care and support.
VISION
To be the Centre that provides
child fraternity with holistic development.
PURPOSE
Wings of a Dove Community Centre exists to provide
a holistic development to the orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) and
reintegrating them back to the community after they have successfully gone
through the rehabilitation process. (Proverb 14:31).
BENEFICIARIES
To date Wings of a Dove Community Centre is home to
31 children aged between the ages of 3 years to 17 years. Each child has come
to the Centre as a result of abandonment, abuse, and neglect or orphaned due to
Hiv/Aids. Currently all the children attend different schools. The Centre is
committed to supporting the children throught their
schooling. We invite you to join and partner with us in order to help our
children through contributions both materially and financially.
AREAS OF SUPPORT:
I.) Education:
We have children in secondary, primary and pre-school (Text books, exercise
books, stationeries, uniforms and school fees).
II.)
Food (Cereals, vegetables, fruits, cooking oil, meat, milk and eggs).
Toiletries and detergents(Bar soap, bathing soap,
omo, sanitary towels, tissues, petroleum jelly and shoe polish).
III.)
Health (Paying bills and buying medicines).
IV.) Clothes
(Beddings , mattresses, mosquito nets, clothes and shoes)
