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About Village Care International (VCI)
A Different Approach to Compassion
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The Village Care Program, Community Discussions and Planning Projects
Village Care initiates community discussions and planning sessions. Discussions are currently facilitated by Regional Coordinators in Africa, and also National Directors.
Day 1: We ask a community what the ideal situation is for their children. What does it mean for every child to be safe, healthy, in a loving home, and receiving education?
Day 2: What does it take to achieve these goals? A solid foundation in sanitation, nutrition, health care, education, and economic security. What does it look like to have all of these aspects of the community functioning?
Day 3: The third day is dedicated to planning. Members of the community talk about programs they can develop, resources they can tap, and action they can take to improve their community.
What happens next? View our Blogs for Kenya and Nigeria to read about progress in communities working their way out of poverty.
What are We Doing to Help Orphans in the Village?
• Supporting Community Planning
• Promoting Community Education
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Investing in Community Development
Supporting Communities through Empowerment
Village Care holds three day community discussions. Every member of the community is welcome to join in. Members of the community discuss issues and make plans to address them. In one community, a group of active citizens found pigs to be a sanitation problem. After meeting with farmers, the community was able to keep pigs on the outskirts of town. Community engagement is the basis for development that is relevant and sustainable.
Promote Community Education
Village Care promotes child and adult education during community discussions by asking questions about local expectation for edcuation. Community members will then address issues of education by pooling their own resources to purchase school supplies, clothing, pay for school fees, etc. for children who might not be able to attend due to a lack of resources.
Invest in Village Development
Village Care encourages communities to invest funds into small and simple projects that can be sustained. This includes using funding to start small business, improve small business to create more jobs, etc. Each community prioritizes their own issues of development, and finds way to improve them over the long run.
- Mobilize village volunteers.
- Help the community form a leadership committee to identify the most vulnerable children in their village or orphanage.
- Build Partnerships with American humanitarian organizations and faith-based organizations interested in donating funds for village or orphanage specific programs.
- Plan for Sustainability through partnership with in-county NGOs that meet village and orphanage specific needs.
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Village Care Community
Mobilization In Action
Tungan Magajiya, Nigeria, received Village
Care training in Outcomes, Practices and Open Space in 2006. They
are now mobilizing their community in many ways including: area
teachers and local businessmen are teaching youth how to buy and
sell commodities at a profit; volunteers are working with a large
group of local drop-outs to help them qualify to take the school
exams; other volunteers are working on a “food exchange” to
combat the problem of mono diets and still others have formed a
water board and are now working on a strategic community water
plan.
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