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Global Touch Charity Organization for the Physically Challenged Benin City, Edo State, was officially opened on the 5th of May 2024.
The Shelter Home was set up following request from well meaning individuals and bodies to meet with the peculiar need of out of school physically challenged children who have been deprived from having meaningful education because of the inability of their parents and guardians to fund and meet with the requirements of their education. The inabilities are due to long distances from their designated schools, abandonments, loss of parents, and broken homes.
Our facility is located in a well secured environment having two buildings with about a total of 12 rooms to accommodate the children and their handlers.
Our first batch of 10 children comprised 6 boys and 4 girls, are drawn from 3 different schools locations. Five are from the School for the Visually Impaired and and five from the School for the Hearing Impaired.
Within two weeks of the inauguration of the facility, and with the awareness it created, more intakes have been accommodated. At present, the number of children has increased to more than 30 with more who are yet to fulfill the requirements for registration pending. This has also increased the locations of the schools involved to four, and the School for the Mentally Retarded captured. So far, we have seven children who are visually impaired, one who is mentally retarded, and the rest who are hearing impaired.
More so, twenty two of our intakes are from various Local governments of Edo State, while two where brought in from Delta State. We have a total of 24 boys and 10 girls with age ranges between eight to nineteen years. Twenty three of them are in the primary school while the rest are in the secondary school.
Due to the different locations of the schools, we have employed the services of two mini buses responsible for transportation to and from school, and also for conveying them when they have special programmes and events.
As for the welfare of the children, the Shelter Home observes strict rules of running a boarding home. Besides their schools’ activities and programmes, we have recreational and outdoors activities for them according to their respective challenges. We have footballs for the hearing impaired and sound systems for the Visually Impaired.
The present number of staff and handlers include the Manager, Supervisor, two in-house cooks working on a shift basis, one in-house cleaner, a part time nurse, and two security personnels covering both night and day.
For the feeding program, the facility follows a roster of a well- planned and balanced three- meals daily.
Conclusion
The cost analysis of running the facility is drawn on as weekly schedule. It includes feeding/kitchen, toiletries, medications, laundry, and miscellaneous. This analysis is based on the continual intakes of children and the fluctuations in prices of commodities, and miscellaneous expenditures as they arise. But on the average for more than 30 children.
