2015 REPORT FINAL1

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CITAM CHILDREN’S CENTRE REPORT
Leadership and Sustainability
of them who had been initiated to occult at the
age of 5 and had been prayed for in many tears for
two months, explained that upon stepping into the
baptism water, heard wailing screams of spirits
leaving and had not had any other attack by the
date of this report. Also, the staff and children
who could read were taken through the Safari
discipleship, Enter Stage. It was simply awesome.
Mentorship Programme
In April, 35 high school students in secondary
school participated in the mentoring program for
a week at the Centre. They were taken through
the No Apologies program by Tabitha Ogango.
In addition, they had their academic reports
reviewed for goal setting and counseling. This
way, most of them had their confidence boosted
which enhanced their performance in school
and relationships with one another, several had
improved in their academic performance by
the end of the year. In August holidays, another
program was carried for 30 children sponsored in
primary boarding schools.
It is also worth noting that the friendships
established with children and staffs at NPCCC
have created a useful social network. It was a great
encouragement to have Ann Naishura at Dennis
Koli’s graduation and get updates about her work
life since she graduated last year.
The focus in 2015 was to unblock the ancient
wells. With regards to leadership and sustainability,
the focus was on reviewing the initial purpose of
the project and aligning the activities to the care
and nurture of children particularly with regards to
actual programs. It was noted that the facilities and
personnel needed upgrading to secure excellent
services to the children. One major initiative was to
encourage children participation in the decisions that
affect them, while ensuring that they are respectful
and responsible. Gardening to provide affordable
and quality meals was also upheld. This year
recorded poor income generation in the tailoring and
carpentry production as the workshop burnt down in
an electric fault fire in February. This has since been
compensated for rebuilding. We anticipate a more
productive year in 2016.
Way Forward
Our focus in 2016 will be to seek God for the doors
open to each of the children in our program and
to support the staff to give their best in service to
God. Seeing children, who would otherwise have
been scavenging at the dumping sites or prostituting
for food, laugh heartily at every joyous opportunity,
puts a smile on our Lord’s face. The way forward is
to sustain the services we continue to render and
to further improve our operations and programing
to feature community transformation in our area of
focus so that even children who may never join us
can gain better care from empowered caregivers.
Our goal is to educate each child that God brings our
way to a point they have skills ad qualification to serve
humanity. We therefore plan to have a sponsorship
fund for NPCCC children to accommodate the
escalating costs for education sponsorship as we
increase the number of children in the program. We
appeal to you to hold us up in prayer as we trust in
God to give and love for the care and protection of
children at or related to NPCCC. Kindly open your
hearts and hands when we reach out to you to give
towards this sponsorship fund. God bless you as
you give towards this noble course.
CITAM Annual Report and Financial Statements | 2015