Orphanage Rehabilitation Juba, South Sudan

• Education: Students attend private school therefore giving them elevated school fees. In addition to school fees, students need school supplies and uniforms to attend school. Currently the facility lacks sufficient funding for all supplies necessary to provide children with an education. Rehabilitation project aims to organize a sponsorship program to get outside donors to support educational funding for each child of school age. • Medical Evaluation: Though nurses from the local church volunteer at the orphanage, the children are provided with substandard heath care. The Rehabilitation Project would like to have all children provided with a full medical/dental examination annually, to assess their individual needs. Based on these evaluations, we would like to arrange follow up care for the children. The primary goal would be to partner with a local medical facility who can see examine the children for a reduced rate if not for free. Additionally we would like to build a medical facility at the orphanage and staff it with nurses 24 hours a day, who can treat basic illnesses prevalent in South Sudan like Malaria, Typhoid, and Giardia. • Nutrition: Juba orphanage is provided government issued food rations, yet the food provided does not meet the needs of the children in the facility. Additionally residents are not provided with well-balanced meals that will sustain them through the day. Increased funding for food rations is essential to providing basic food needs for the children. The Rehabilitation project would like to take this one step further by developing a weekly, rotating menu that contains local food items that provide the children with nutrients needed in proper development. • Facility Improvements: The facility currently only has a small building housing, girls and boys of all ages. The kitchen is in disrepair and very unsafe leaving the children who often cook for themselves to burns. There is only one working shower and two toilets. The bathroom doe not have There is no proper security in the facility allowing squatters to stay on the property and allowing the neighboring community unlimited access to the orphanage leaving the children open to theft and violence. The security wall is dilapidate and there is no perimeter lighting allowing strangers to enter the compound unnoticed. Orphanage Rehabilitation would like to build a new wall with razor wire and proper lighting. We would also like to contract a local security company to look after the kids 24/7 • Transitional Programs: Several of the children grew up in the orphanage and are having a hard time moving on. Orphanage Rehabilitation Project would like to develop a transitional housing compound. Twelve young men age eight-teen to twenty-one would be moved together, to a new compound, and learn how to live away from the orphanage. Along with accommodation, vocational training would take place on the transitional compound so the young men will learn practical skills they can use in the future to earn a living.