This care home was started approximately two years ago and because of problems with the lease of the building in which the children are housed it is not able to get Government funding.
To qualify for funding an institution must own the property is uses or have a lease of infinite length. This is done so that the children are always guaranteed a home. However, although well meaning, this rule can be counterproductive because in this instance the home does not have the funds to buy its premises and an infinite lease is no longer legally available. This has left its founder and staff in total distress over the future of the children in their care.
Not only is there concern over the tenancy of the premises but the whole building is in a very bad state of repair and is in need of a total upgrade to provide a safe and comfortable environment where children can learn and thrive. As you can see from the photos below there is a lot of work to be done.
Due to ignorance rather than deliberate cruelty some of the children have been kept in dreadful conditions. Two children in the home were kept in cages simply because their families did not know how to cope with them. One was in his teens and had been in a chicken coop naked and covered in his own excrement for so long that he could not walk. The only time his cage was opened was to hose him down now and then and to shove in food. It took months of intense physiotherapy before he gained the use of his legs. His treatment and medication has to be paid for but his family are too poor to care for themselves and their other children so he would have been neglected for his whole life if the home had not rescued him.
Unfortunately, stories like this are not rare and our first project is to help this home secure its property and then update it so that it becomes a place where the children not only find refuge but also get the treatment and care that they deserve to have.
Despite these living conditions the children are happy, cheerful and desperate to learn.
We desperately need your help to secure this property
