We're raising funds to transition our model and Children's Home from institution-based care to family and community-based care. Instead of operating as a long-term care facility, our program seeks to engage through short-term crisis management.

Our goal is that the organization will no longer function as a long-term care solution or orphanage. Instead, we will serve as an emergency or crisis management centre where abandoned and orphaned children can stay for a day or a week as we trace other family members who seek to care for them (kinship care).

It will be a centre for assessing children with disabilities, finding the actual needs, providing services at the family level, and making referrals where possible.

Helping resettled children

For those who previously stayed at our home and have resettled into families, we are also raising funds for the travel costs associated with follow-ups to assess families' progress after reuniting and make referrals and recommendations when necessary.

Budaka Cheshire will continue to help children through child-centered, family-based rehabilitation, disability services, medical facilitation, counseling, child advocacy, and family assistance from a child's home.

Supporting children still in our home to be in families

To reunite children who live at our home with their families, we also have travel costs. After family tracing, we assess and screen families first for child protection. A social worker from Budaka Cheshire will conduct a home visit, a household vulnerability assessment, and family interviews to collect data on a child's family and community background. In addition, bonding children with their parents, coaching, counseling, and family sensitization meetings before reunification require transportation costs.

We'll help with family-based care services. In most cases, kinship care – is where extended families take care of children whose parents have died or abandoned them. These family members will also receive financial support, food, school allowance, health care, and parenting coaching from our staff.

Along with transitioning to a short-term crisis-management facility, we're also raising funds to transition our home into a demonstration centre for ecological organic agriculture.

We want our home to become a child-centered, family-focused place where families of children with disabilities can find hope, support, and empowerment in their community to reach their fullest God-given potential. Farmers will also be able to conduct meetings in our centre. Through our Demonstration Centre, we hope to partner and network with well-wishers and other organizations involved in child care and protection.

We will carry out training of families and community members on organic farming while we provide education empowering families economically on:

We know that children have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. That's why we're committed to strengthening families and helping keep them together. 

The key to Budaka Cheshire's success comes from combining effective programs and passionate people to help families of children experiencing poverty, family issues, and lack of services.

How we help children

We'll continue equipping the children we serve with positive attitudes and a positive self-concept. Through counseling and facilitation of practical skills, children can appreciate themselves better and, in turn, be appreciated within the community.

Improving self-esteem also increases opportunities for children to share balanced life as they dream bigger than before, reaching their goals and aspirations; socially, intellectually, economically, and spiritually.

We ensure quality education, healthcare, spiritual development, and skills training for the children we serve for future self-reliance.

For children who need more psychological support or have come from a traumatic background, we will continue following up and providing therapy to help them heal, find support, empowerment, hope, and purpose.

For children with disabilities, we also ensure access to disability services and improve a child's environment at home and school as needed to accommodate their individual needs and abilities (constructing an accessible toilet facility, ramps, and providing adaptive equipment when needed).

We also fund surgeries for children with clubfeet, chronic osteomyelitis, gluteal fibrosis, and more. Along with medical facilitation, we are also raising funds to provide assistive and mobility devices for children in families (tricycles, wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, and more).

How we help caretakers, parents, and families

Within the community, we will serve children and families in their homes through case management and child disability services (conduct assessments, find the real needs, provide services at the family level, and make referrals where possible).

We help parents gain skills that they can use to help sustain their families for the long term, including:

• Case management, conducting home visits to evaluate support needs within families (making referrals when necessary)
• Necessities, such as food, shelter, and healthcare as needed
• Parenting skills coaching and conducting family support groups
• Life skills training and economic planning (reminding families/caretakers of the importance of managing an income-generating activity for the good of the family, child, and community)
• Counseling for families/caretakers that are survivors of domestic abuse so they can heal
• Psychosocial support to strengthen caretaker's capacity to better care for their children
• Helping families access the locally available disability resources so that exercise and rehabilitation can continue for their children as they grow up
• Providing families with knowledge about child protection, the rights of persons with disabilities, and the child legal framework
• Economic planning and job skill development so that they earn income from trade skills, such as baking, knitting, sewing, welding, computers, bookkeeping, and more