Our goal is to build a facility that will house at least seventy-two boys and girls from birth to 10 years old. There will be eight large cottages, each with a living room, dining area, kitchen, 4 bedrooms, a boys' bathroom and a girls' bathroom. One Mom and nine children will live in each cottage. There will be a garden to be cultivated behind each cottage.
Mothers' Training
Before a "Mother" is accepted, she is required to take a one-year training course taught by a woman who has been trained to teach the course in Nairobi SOS Mother's Training School. Each Mother will be given a monthly stipend, a fixed amount for her family's food budget, and a fixed amount for her family's clothing budget. She will also be given health insurance.
The Mother's responsibility will be to nurture her nine children. She will see to it that the children make their beds properly, are ready for breakfast and for school. The night before, she will make sure that each child is bathed and has his or her school uniform laid out for the morning, along with a bagged school lunch. She will also check to see that each child's homework is in his/her school bag. Infants will be left at home with Mom, and the pre-school children will attend supervised play-time, arts and crafts, children's choir practice, and Children's Bible School right on the premises.
When the children return home from school, Mother will supervise play-time, planting or harvesting in the cottage shamba (garden), special duties assigned to each child, and two hours quiet time for homework. Then, there will be dinner in their respective cottages. After dinner will be family time for singing and for sharing the events of the day. Each Mother will have two days a week off, during which she will be replaced by an "aunt". The same policy will hold for all other employees in accordance with the Kenyan labor laws.
Saturdays will be spent having fun and working in the shambas. Sunday mornings will be spent in church; afternoons will be spent in relaxation, and Sunday evenings will begin with a common meal for all in the dining hall, followed by sharing praise reports and prayer needs.
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