Mission Statement

The mission of the Providence Children’s Home is to gather resources and opportunities into a sustainable home, school and community for Kenyan children orphaned by AIDS, in a manner that glorifies God.

Goals and Long Range Objectives

1. Through the PCH campus in Ngong, Kenya, provide a secure and loving home and a quality education for Kenyan children orphaned by AIDS as well as children from families of all income levels.

    

   1. Establish campus family units where each child is protected, nurtured and loved and create programs that meet the psychological, social and medical needs of each child.

2. Design and implement an accredited curriculum that stimulates, challenges and imparts a lifetime joy of learning for each child.

3. Establish and maintain a support system that includes house parents, Big Brothers & Sisters program (U.S. & Kenya) and maintain relationship with the community and child’s family of origin.

2. Provide vocational training and set up students as entrepreneurs in small industries, integrating the children of the campus into the surrounding community.

    

   1. Collaborate with stakeholders, community leaders, students and PCH staff to determine a vocational laboratory curriculum.
2. Establish and support mentor/community/student relationships throughout the course of projects and classes.
3. Commit and maintain specific resources for projects and classes arising out of vocational laboratory curriculum.
4. Matriculate students as critical thinking and problem solving people in the context of a particular skill.

3. As a Christian institution, PCH will provide Christian witness, education, nurture and fellowship for the children, faculty and staff of the school, while meeting Kenyan educational requirements for teaching all Kenyan religions.

    

   1. Develop student led programs to promote Christian witness in both elementary and high school.

2. Establish ongoing religious education in keeping with established curriculum.

3. Develop Christian nurture programs enabling spiritual growth for students and staff.

4. Establish opportunities for fellowship among students, faculty and staff.

4. Connect U.S. citizens to a solution to the problem of AIDS orphans, applying American resources in conjunction with those in Kenya to create a model for alleviating this crisis.

1. Establish a fund raising team to develop a donor base and to organize fund raisers.

2. Establish an education team to gather research material on AIDS in Africa, to develop promotional material and to develop presentation material.

3. Establish U.S. and Kenya logistics teams to organize and support mission trips to the Ngong campus.

5. The campus will be developed in a manner consistent with the above goals.

    

   1. Develop a process by which the architecture and infrastructure of the campus are defined and implemented, such that all the goals are accounted for.