Amana Kids

Online Donations

amanakids — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:06:59 +0000

To donate online, please visit the Harari Congress in the Diaspora website.

Our Future

amanakids — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:27:23 +0000

We are more bright hope toward matriculating 500 children and helping to bring improved development and conditions and sustainable behavior change among the surrounding communities. In the forthcoming years, 10-15 additional orphanage children will be joined every year the program. The following are the objectives and priority areas of assistance.

1. Child Sponsorships
The AOKCC program is growing, and it is extremely important to receive contributions by benefactor to help meet the basic program costs. As a first priority, AOKCC needs the assistance of individuals, businesses and other organizations to take up child sponsorships. Presently, only some 25% of the children have sponsors. This is the most direct and affordable route for individuals and businesses to get involved in a modest but meaningful way. Sponsors can choose to have direct relations and correspondence with the assisted children. In the next three years, AOKCC needs to enrol at least 40 additional child sponsors. $35.00 per month, or $420.00 per year for each kids provides them a full life .

2. An Endowment Fund
The AOKCC needs to sustain itself into the future as a platform for various programs. An endowment fund needs to be established to help cover the core recurring costs. AOKCC needs the assistance of philanthropists, foundations and businesses to help capitalize such a fund.AOKCC’s objective is to establish an endowment fund of $500,000.

3. On-Site Resource Generation
AOKCC currently undertakes resource generation activities such as field crop production, vegetable gardening, dairy production, baking and handicraft production. ECF needs to expand the operation to include other resource generation activities such as milling, honey and poultry production, pottery, weaving, embroidery and sewing.AOKCC seeks a strategic partner to help strengthen and expand its farm-based resource generation activities. Those individuals or organizations that are working in this industry could be of great help and could realize the immediate benefit of participation

5. Local Economic Development Program. Amana Kids care center seeks an appropriate strategic partner to develop, resource and operate with AOKCC a small business development program as well as a skills development center for the surrounding communities. Training courses would include vocational training such as building construction and technology, electrical installation, auto mechanics and maintenance, metal work, blacksmith, woodwork and carpentry. It would also include literacy and other more basic life skills train

Sustaining Amana Kids

amanakids — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:24:24 +0000

No organization or business can sustain itself without revenue.

Help us in any way you can, with our secure, encrypted donation capability. 100% of your donation goes to the children. It takes just $35.00 US to care for one child per month, so please contribute now.

Sustainability is a central value of the Amana ethos. It serves as an operational principle that drives our strategy, which has three key elements: community and social participation and internal resource generation.

Amana insists that all children in the program maintain their family, relational and community ties, and that the community participates in the program. The community has helped to build the school, and plays a leading role in selecting the most disadvantaged and eligible children to enroll in the program. More widely, Amana organization mobilizes businesses, and various organizations for in-kind services and grants for special projects. AOKCC runs and is building up a child sponsorship program to build a wider business and individual alliance around the Amana initiative. In the long term, it aspires to build an endowment to secure stable financial support for the program. But without donations we will not achieve our sustainability.

First call for children

amanakids — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:22:34 +0000

Amana Kids is guided by the principle of ‘first call for children’. It is rooted in the understanding that the early years of any human being are critical formative years. Deprivation during childhood results in a lifetime of irreversible damage. Children are the best social and economic investments that can be made, privately or publicly, especially if the future is to be better. Millions condemned to a harsh life of deprivation. There is no doubt that the children of today are the citizens, leaders, professionals and workers of tomorrow. A core focus of Amana is to assist children on the brink: those who are destitute, have lost one or both parents, or have been abandoned and are at great risk of harm and further disadvantage.