PROJECT BADBAADO
Horn of Africa Sick Childrens Charity is appealing for BADBAADO Center for Children with Special Needs (BCCSN), a partner organization registered in Somaliland, for humanitarian assistance to support their programs for children with special needs including those with physical, and intellectual disabilities. BCCSN is seeking your help and any financial assistance would be greatly appreciated. Furthermore, if you wish to join their committee or make donations, please contact us at sjowhar@rogers.com
BCCSN runs a Center that provides special needs children with literacy, nutritional meals, transportation to and from the center as well as life skills activities to increase their health and independence. Families of these children are also provided with information and empowerment programs.
Project Badbaado
Some of the children attending the Center
PROGRAMS
LITERACY PROGRAM
All children at the Center receive a free educational service. For almost all the children attending the program this is their first opportunity to be in school and to learn to read and write.
Following on from the children’s program, an all girls literacy program takes place in the center, for young women who have not previously had the chance to learn these skills. This program is now working with two groups as a result of increased demand for the service.
A library service has currently been added to this program.
DAILY LIVING ACTIVITIES
Children with Special Needs are supported in the center to develop skills for daily living activities, such as personal care, communications and teamwork, to help them become more self-reliant. Their parents are also provided with parenting skills to help their disabled children. All children are checked and followed up by a healthcare professional and medications are provided as they become available.
RECREATIONAL
Children attending the center have access to recreational programs such as games, story telling, coloring, playing ball, all of which can help to improve their motor skills and encourages them express themselves through art.
TRANSPORTATION
A bus takes children to and from the center four days a week. They are collected in the morning and dropped off at home in the afternoon.
VOLUNTEERS
Dedicated local volunteers provide their services to the program by cooking, cleaning, teaching literacy and life skills, and by helping with recreational activities for the children.