Statement of the Problems
There are six fundamental causes of the problems of having orphans, Street Children, widow, ignorance, bitterness, poverty and diseases etc. in the mainland of the country as in all African Continent.
a) Low level economic strategies
b) The rapidly growth of HIV/AIDS pandemic
c) Alcoholism
d) The decline of the family structure {Negligence from the society}
e) Some of the traditional culture and behavior of the resident
f) The wounds which were inherited from one generation to another caused by Slavery, Colonialism and ethnic – wars.
In general there are many orphans, streets children, widows from very poor families. All these groups of people lack both the materials and the psychological support to enable them to grow and survive as normal human beings. As a result we are facing the tragedy ranging from lack of employment opportunities, poor agricultural performance lack of enough education and the majority live under the National poverty line. Indeed lack of the society attention towards orphans adds fuel to this crisis etc.
In some cases this problems have become a burden to the families all over the country and some of these groups have become immigrants to the Towns and cities and therefore creating some disturbances to the Urban dwellers by going around begging money and degrading the environment by scattering rubbish, prostitution which ends with bad disease i.e. HIV/AIDS etc. if we help them the crisis could decrease somehow. No other way to deal with such problems if there is no mercy ministry.
Decline of Family Structure
In traditional extended family, children especially orphans were the responsibility of the whole family community, but these family structures have been weakened. Formally children received the necessities of life from any and every parent in the community orphans were cared for by their grand parents or by other relatives.
Kinship ties no longer provide a guarantee of security. Today we see rampant individualism and cut throat competition. Now children no longer belong to the community and their life prospects and upbringing depends on the goodwill and integrity of individuals. If every member of community will have the welfare of children at heart and ready to share directly or indirectly in the responsibility of their upbringing, the spectacle of orphans would disappear.
Another of the traditional and behavior of the indigenous many tribes and ethnic group in the country has contributed a lot to those problems. For instance when a girl conceive outside marriage, there is tendency of chasing her away with the baby from the family. They ever not accept the young baby in the family completely. Therefore there will be no one to take care of the baby and such baby is seen and believed to be a caste. So he/she is not accepted and became an orphan.
Operational Methodology
Reading to the six fundamental causes aforementioned, for example collaboration with the community around one of our goals we identify those kids who have no able person to took after them
These are the one who are especially living in a very difficult conditions or circumstances and incur great risks of lacking food, clothes, education, medical care and even death. They experience a lack of resources to meet even by one percent the most basic needs such as food, shelter, education, medical care and protection including emotional healing.
After taking them to our centers basically we do the following:- We take them to the medical check up, feed them, clothe them, and shelter them, we educate them in preliminary and primary level, emotional healing buy using games, funds etc. We try to find sponsors and donors for them and if possible we try to re –uniting them with their relative families, for those families who will request for them.