HOW EDUCATION SUPPORT WORKS
Activity 1: Verification of pupils/students at schools.
This is the first activity that is carried on at the beginning of every term. All children need to be verified if they have all reported back to school for the following term to avoid paying a child who might have dropped out of school or have changed the school without notifying the organization. This verification is done from school, that therefore requires field officer to move from school to school to check the beneficiaries at school.
Activity 5 School fees payment.
With the organization policy, all the payment of the school fees it is done through cheques, that means the transaction happen between organization account to school account. Field officer provide the account department with the accountability. We are not limited to only school fees, but we also pay feedings and other school requirements. All beneficiaries need to get food from school so that it maintains their academic level. According to organization finding, most of these children dropped out of school due to hunger from school and some time they also go back home and they don’t find what to eat hence their dropped out. This has made feeding program to the beneficiaries very important to sustain a child at school.
Child Updates
According to the organization, all children information needs to be updated timely in the organization database. These updates include home situation and school situation of a child. This activity is done by field officer and it require field officer to reach home or school and update the information or any changes in a child life.
Letter writing
Letter writing is one of the essential activities that is implemented under this project. Every year each beneficiary has to write letter to his or her donor stating his or her condition from home and school and thanking the donor for supporting in paying his or her school fees, scholastic requirement, medical support among others.
Monitoring visits:
School visit:
School visit is one of the essential activities that is carried on under this project. The objective of this activity is to find out the condition, performance, behaviors, attendance of the learners in school. The visit also builds up the relationship between the organization and the school. These visits also help the school and the organization to work hand in hand to improve on the life of the vulnerable children in the school.
Home visit
The organization work is not limited to school visit nor school fees payment only. Comboni Samaritans of Gulu is attached to the beneficiaries while at home, that the reason these children are visited at home. The organization need to know the condition through which their beneficiaries go through a home. This visit provides the organization with the information about the child hence help in the data updates. This visit also helps the organization and parents to work hand in hand to ensure the beneficiaries’ future are grooms through guidance and counselling from both organization and the parents.
Hospital visit
Our beneficiaries being vulnerable, the organization also planned for their medical treatment. All our beneficiaries are treated from Comboni Health Centre II and their bills are paid from respective projects. Incase any critical sickness, beneficiaries are referred for further treatment from the major hospital such as St. Mary’s hospital Lacor, located in Gulu city.
Scholastic distribution
Comboni Samaritans of Gulu focus so much on the scholastic requirement distribution to the orphan and vulnerable children. According to the organizational research, most of the orphan and vulnerable children needs not limited to only school fees but they need extra support like scholastics to facilitate their learning. Once they are not provided, they may drop out of school that means, it is also as ways to keep them in school.
Start-up tool distribution
Start-up tool’s distribution is essential activity that is implemented by the organization. All beneficiaries who have completed the course are given the startup kits. This help them to open up their business. According to the organization survey, once the OVC are not provide with startup kits, meaning they will sit on the skills they attained from the school because they are unable to provide themselves with startup kits being a vulnerable child. These OVC are monitored in their respective business Centre to assess their progress in the career they have under gone and to find out if the skills acquired shall improve on their standard of living.
