Childcare Program
Both the orphanage and the school are in place to achieve two purposes: Child care/restoration and child development through education. This is jointly carried out in the orphanage and the school of New Hope.
Some of the child restoration resources provided by New Hope include: psychological and emotional rehabilitation for orphans, child prostitutes, trafficked children, and kidnapped girls; food and clothing; medical treatment and physical rehabilitation, including surgery, for children with disabilities. Additional child care provisions include:
shelter
food
clothes and foot wear
medication
The school offers a boarding program for orphans or day program for children from impoverished families. After successfully rehabilitating children, New Hope continues their development through quality education.
New Hope has established an education An organized and improved education system from kindergarten and primary school level is established, improved educational management in place, teaching staffs and nannies trained to improve professional capacity, improved physical infrastructure in place and improved equipment along with improved furniture are organized which help New Hope to provide quality education for most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. The education provision has three distinct levels. These are Kindergarten education, Primary 1st cycle education (Grades 1-4), and Primary second cycle education (Grades 5-8). The total
The components of the educational activities are:
Prepare and make in place educational infrastructure such as furniture and equipments as well as buildings for classrooms, library and laboratory,
Train teaching staffs,
Train school administrators
Provide text books, school uniforms, stationeries for students,
Organize and coordinate financial material and manpower for the educational work,
Organize student teachers educational planning work
Kindergarten Education
The KG focuses on children whose age ranges from 4 to 6 years. KG will help children to grow physically and mentally to meet the objectives of self-realization, human relationship and prepare them for further social interaction. Thus, KG helps them to learn socialization, appreciate their surroundings and prepares them to start the primary education. Children in KG classes are helped to conform to the daily routine of the group so that they obey school rules, become attentive listeners and willing to participate in art, music and physical activities. Attention is given to ease the children’s adjustment to school situations so that children seek answers to questions by making enquiries of themselves and individually they take part in group play and activities. Children are also to be taught to share with others so that they learn mutual respect, cooperation and mutual assistance.
At the end of KG classes, the expectations are
- Children who identify the alphabet and properly write them,
- Children who listen to others and express themselves,
- Children who are ready to join the primary school and who are socially interactive,
- Children who are endowed with self-confidence, and
- Children who are developed physically and mentally to express their intentions, moods and who appreciate their surroundings.
Thus, NHCCH designed to provide lower and upper KG educational services for the above-mentioned children.
Primary Education
The primary school is the first stage of formal education. The primary education is eight years education divided in to two cycles. Children start schooling at the age of 7 and completes at the age of 14. This is the period of accelerated dynamic changes in the behavior of children and youth in terms of their learning behavior, physical development, their emotion, motivation and perception. In the progress of education, the education process ranges from self-realization through human relations and economic efficiency to civic responsibility as presented by specific curriculum according to each subject matter prepared by the concerned bodies.
At the end of the first cycle, the students are expected to develop basic language skills of standardized writing to their level, to develop reading and writing skills, to know their own responsibility, to know the role of their family and their community, to feel responsible and are capable of solving problems in accordance with their age, to become cognitive of their house, their environment, the various activities and they are eager to know, to participate in different activities, to keep their personal hygiene and also can participate in their collective sanitation.
The students in the second cycle of the primary education are physically mature enough to carry out easy work. Based on their physical and mental maturity, they can assume personal and social responsibility and can have cultural and social participation. Since they have attained basic education, they are ready for various training and they can be productive with proper follow up and control. They are ready to continue further education and skill development to improve their capacity in various spheres of activities.
To fulfill the above realities, New Hope established primary school in its children’s village of Guder. The school established conducts primary education in two cycles. The school is standardized according to the requirement of Oromia Education Bureau and operates as per the rules and regulations of the region. The school is designed to have 8 classrooms, a pedagogical center, administrative block and a library equipped with reference books. The teachers who fulfil the requirement of each level are recruited. The teaching materials, furniture and the necessary equipments are fulfilled.
Children with disabilities will get access to basic necessities and basic education from this project. These children as identified during the need assesment are left for anguishing in poverty for ever. The physical, social and economic barrier have effectively hindered children with disabilities. Boarding facilities reduce the physical hassle they face to travel to schools. A workshop centre where artificial bodies are built for them and where they learn how to make these bodies by themselves is needed. The spcecial need education focuses on blind and deaf students. However, the availability of resources has determined the work process and the possibility of the success.
High School
Kids, after they finish grade eight, they join the high school which is grade nine and grade ten. After they completed grade ten, they go to either to college preparatory which are grade elleven and grade twrlve or if their result is lower for preparatory level, they go to vocational and technical training schools which are one year, two years, three years and four years program based on their results from grade ten.
Those who complete preparatory classes, will go to government Universities and colleges.