Casaupendo
CBO runs a number of sub programs to support orphans as well as their
grannies. Below we show the highlights of the programs we run.
Some programs are still in the development stage and we need your help
to be able to launch these programs.
 Nutrition
On
January 11th 2019, we launched our nutrition program for the children where
each child get 3 meals a day (lunch and Dinner) with fruits in between. We have a balanced
recipe for each day. Our lunch meal is served between 12.30pm and 1.30
pm, to allow the children enough time to go back to school. Our dinner
meal is served between 5.30 pm and 6.30 pm to allow children to finish
their homework. We provite oat meal and milk for breakfast. We also provide fruits to keep our children healthy.
 Education
Casaupendo home ensures that all the children on the program get quality education. Our team of volunteers visit
the school of each child and get to meet the teachers in charge. We follow up on the children education
progress and handle any behavioral challenge that could affect the
educational performance. We depend on volunteers to make this program a
success. We visit each school at least twice each month to check on the
progress of our children and provide all the support our children need.
During the visit we pay any tuition fees for the child as well as address
any additional concerns in the school. This program has helped our children
to focus on their school work and collaborate with their teachers to
improve their grades.
 Spiritual
mentorship
Casaupendo orphanage ensures that all children in our orphan program go to
church. We have partnered with churches within the region
we operate. We invite spiritual counselors and ministers to provide
spiritual mentorship and counseling to our children. We also invite
volunteers to provide evangelism sessions to the children in
our program as well as the neighboring commnuty. Our volunteers visit
homes on weekends and share gospel with the households. As an
organisation, we encourage our children to grow up in all dimension
including the spiritual dimension.
Counseling
We provide free counseling to
the children in our program as well as their grannies. Counseling is
done at our center on a need to need basis. In some cases, a group
counseling session is conducted by our resident psychologist. All our children need counseling
given their loss and grief background. Some children have HIV/AIDs
passed to
them by parents through birth hence require counseling and close
monitoring.We
need more volunteers to help us with the counseling program. Volunteers
in this program must have a previous counseling experience either as a
social worker, counselor, psychologists, or related experience. Please feel free
to support this program.
 Health Care
Casaupendo
Orphanage would like to provide healthcare to all the children in the program
and the community. We would like a first aid room filled with necessary
medication, reagents, and equipment that will enable volunteer nurses to care
for our children at the orphanage and the community. In this photo,
one of our children was hurt while playing soccer. He was bleeding. Our
volunteer had to attend to him with no gloves, no reagents, and no
medication. Later, the child has referred to a hospital 40 kilometres away from
the orphanage. It is situations like these ones that make us need a healthcare
unit at the orphanage. We would like telehealth services to help hurting
persons in this community. We would like medical camps to offer healthcare to
our children and the community. Once in a while, Casaupendo visits the grannies
to check on their health and attend to their needs. We ensure that all children
in our program get all types of vaccines needed for healthy development. Our
volunteer nurses and clinicians observe each child on a regular basis to ensure
that our children are doing well. Volunteers in this program check the blood
pressure, weight, and height of the children, wound care, and make constant
observations on our children. Children with minor health conditions are
provided care by our volunteering nurse or visiting nurse. Severe cases are
referred to doctors in the nearby hospital. We depend on volunteer nurses to
run this program. We need more volunteer nurses to join this program and help
create an impact. You can support this program by sending a gift towards the purchase
of medication, equipment, and reagents needed in our first aid unit. You can
also ship equipment to our orphanage, and these will be a great boost to the
lives of our children as well as that of the community we are serving. Thank
you for supporting Casaupendo Orphanage.
Life Skills Programs
Art/Craft
Casaupendo
orphanage runs an art/craft class for the children on the program as well
as the community. Art therapy has enabled the children to start their journey of healing from their trauma. You can
support this project
by sending a gift directly towards purchase of art materials like pencils, cryons, color, paper, and journal books.
Baking
Casaupendo
orphanage runs a baking class for the children on the program as well
as the community. Thanks to the oven donated to the
organization, Casaupendo orphanage has been able to work on several baking projects. We would like to
thank our supporters and donors for making this possible. You can
support this project
by sending a gift directly towards purchase of baking ingridients.
Sewing Casaupendo
orphanage runs a sewing class for the children on the program as well
as the community. Thanks to the sewing machine donated to the
organization, Casaupendo orphanage has been able to saw clothing, for
our children, and school uniforms at a half the price. We would like to
thank our supporters and donors for making this possible. You can
support this project
by sending a gift directly towards purchase of fabric, thread, and you
will be providing all the children in our home a gift of
clothing.
Computer
Casaupendo
orphanage runs a computer class for the children on the program. Thanks
to one computer donated to the
organization, Casaupendo orphanage continue to teach the children
technology. We need more computers to teach technology to 30 children
on the program. We would like to open our computer class to more
children in the community. More computers will enable us to achieve
this goal. You can
support this project
by sending a gift directly towards purchase of computers.
Goat Farming
Casaupendo Orphanage Strives towards being a sustainable orphanage that
will survive the test of time. One of the projects that the orphanage
is doing to work towards sustainability is goat farming. We received a
donation of two female goats and one male goats. We lost our male goat
from sudden disease and this has intefered with goat breeding. We
need support to buy a male goat for breeding. This project
needs more help because the goats need goat feed and need a regular
vetenary officer to visit by every other month to provide the necessary
care that our goats needs. Please feel free to send a gift towards
buying a male goat, and
feed to allow this project to continue running and helping our children.
 Chicken Farming
Chicken farming is another project that Casaupendo Orphanage is doing
in efforts to try and be a sustainable orphanage. Our goal is to have
chickens
to provide eggs for our children. We are currently having
a huge need here because our children egg incubator malfunctioned
interfering with breeding of baby chickens. We need an egg
incubator to breed eggs and have more chickens. You can
support this project by sending a gift towards purchase of an egg
incubator, or send a gift towards chicken feed. Each day the chickens
need healthy food to supplement their diet and enable them to be
healthy. The chicken need vaccines and medication to keep them healthy.
Fish Farming
In
2020, the country was faced by covid pandemic and our children were
home from school because of the pandemic. The children worked on fish
ponds by implementing some of the skills they had learned in school. We
received a donation from one of our supporters towards purchase of baby
fish. Today the fish ponds have baby fish. Each day the children
and volunteers of casaupendo orphanage take turns in caring for the
fish. Today, the children have been able to fish some fish for
dinner. You can support fish farming by sending a gift directly
towards fish food.
 Gardening
Casaupendo orphanage has leased a 0.5 of an acre piece of property from
our neighbors that has allowed fish farming and orphanage garden. The
children and volunteers take turns to pull weeds and maintain the
garden. We currently need seeds. We are looking forwad to plant
vegetables,
carrots, tomatoes, squash, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and more. Please
support the garden
program by sending a gift towards seeds, insecticides, and manure.
You can also send a gift towards purchase of the land that we are
currently leasing to allow the orphanage to plant long
term food crops like fruit trees, which will be of benefit to the
children in the home. Thank you for all the support that you are giving
casaupendo orphanage.
Community Outreach
Casaupendo
Orphanage teaches compassion to all the children in the program. All
the
children in the program have made a promise to make a difference in
their
community. We teach the children how to give back to their community.
Once
every month, we organize community outreach sessions where the children
would
go out to the community and share their skills with other children not
on the
program and the community. During these sessions, the children share
water,
soap, homemade cookies, brownies, and cupcakes. Some of the topics that
the children have shared before include hand hygiene and the love of
Jesus. We invite more
ideas in building our community outreach sessions. You can support this
program
by giving a gift towards buying soap, baking ingredients, and
clean water
to share with the community children during these outreach sessions.
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