CHILD SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM

A project is an entity through which funds are channeled from the sponsor to the child. It 's a means to enable well-wishers to assist a vulnerable /orphan child in poor countries. It's transparent and accountable for any activity done between the child and the sponsor.

Our main way of fund raising is through a one to one sponsorship program; sponsor-child relationship which is not only meant to provide financial support but to enable sponsor to become part of the mutual sharing bond which bridges cultures. The opportunity also helps the child to enrich his understanding of the world through cross culture conducts with the sponsor.

THE ORPHAN CHILDREN
BFHP has the Board members who manages the organization.

• The Case committee select the needy children which have been brought in by the local administration, socialworkers
  and other government departments for approval.
• The Board and its staff is gender sensitive.
• After the approval of the case, then the social workers process the background information of the child on no.1. forms to look for any willing sponsor to assist the child.

• Children visit the office every Saturday during the weekends to correspond with their sponsors.
• We have farm School where our sponsored children learn about improved way of farming so that uncase they drop out of School due to lack of School fees they may venture in income generating activities.
• Youth groups where by we train them on HIV/AIDS awareness activities In their peers through participatory methodologies. E.g. role plays, puppetry, poems, Music etc.
• Networking with other NGO's. BFP refer some sponsored children to Kanduyi Children's Home where they train for vocational training e.g. tailoring/Carpentry Course. We also receive some literature from strategies for hope series on HIV/AIDS
• Socialworkers visit Schools where sponsored children learn on child advocacy and children/s rights awareness.
• Socialworkers ensure, that children get their basic needs, medical examination and are comfortable in Schools.
• Girl child Education is encouraged.

B.F.H.P build the capacity of the staff and community based organizations, community resource persons, teachers in schools where our sponsored children learn, children through youth to youth approach ,child to child approach and members of the community it works with to make them active partners in outreach work on rights of the children and HIV/Aids awareness. To achieve this B.F.H.P Networks with grassroots organization like child welfare society Bungoma Branch Children department ministry of home affairs, Ministry of Education , Ministry of Culture and social services and ministry of health in the government sector.
BFHP seeks to mainstream gender Equity and ensure children participation in all programmes and projects using gender and children responsive planning, programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects

We have 5000,00 children both girls and boys but with a majority of girls because we are encouraging girl child Education in the district.

All these children are attending Primary Education and a few who have dropped out of School due to early pregnancy have joined Youth Polytechnicsor vocational training.

Over one million children in Kenya are left either total orphans or with one parent due to HIV/AIDS related diseases (According to orphans alert news). Our effort is just but a drop in the oceans as such the Kenya government with the increasing poverty in the communities cannot cope with the situation.

Kindly note that we welcome any assistance in kind form either material or financial. However much concern is the orphan child sponsorship to enable him/her grow as any other child in the society.

B.F.H.P has child sponsorship program where the child and the sponsor communicate directly. In this process we recruit genuine cases I.e. Aids orphans and other vulnerable children who deserve assistance. We have concrete procedure of assisting this children through trained social workers and the undertakes stem from sponsorship gesture that you offer. During the year under review we had a total of 2500 orphan children enrolled on our program .Areas that are yearning for assistance incidentally have been growing just as assistance from sponsors has been dwindling .Such hard economic and social times have not spared even the mighty but we are glad to note that you have stood by our side.

In spite the number of orphans increasing we need more sponsors . A Charitable organization in Canada has accepted to come to distribute Bed kits to 3,000 orphan children in the program. The Bed kit sample consist of a mattress, two bedsheets, one blanket, a pillow, pillow case, treated net, one dress, a towel. Its very difficult to bring up orphaned children without funds. The extended families who have adopted these children have large families and they are facing bad poverty.

Every child needs his/her rights:
1. Survival rights
- Access to medical services
- Access to clean water.
- Adequate living standards

2. Development Rights:
- The right to educate
- The right to freedom of thought, conscience/ Religion
- Access to information, play, leisure and cultural activities

3. Protection Rights:
- The right to be protected from all forms of exploitation and cruelty, arbitrary, separation from family and abuses in criminal justice system.

4. Freedom to express Opinions and Freedom to have a say in matters affecting one's
life. The right to play an active role in society.

· To buy plot where by we shall establish a resource centre for training the women and youth on different skills, micro finance, Agriculture, HIV/AIDS ,Family planning ,
officers

• 4 Wheel range rover for transport
• Equipments/Funds for primary health care
• Enough funds to run Micro-Enterprise progamme
• More sponsors
• Construct school where total orphan children will learn and stay at school
• Hire more qualified staff to run the organization and built the capacity of present staff.

• Our implementation strategies include community mobilization, sensitization, advocacy, gender initiatives, networking and formation of community based organization ( CBO's) as well as working with already existing acting groups.
• Strengthen community based approaches in all programmes
• Implement projects based on realistic community consultation ( Children needs driven
  project)
• Capacity building programmes for communities based on the CBO needs assessments.
• Promote partnership between BFHP and other stakeholders and share the technical packages on different areas of interventions.