To keep the children off the street, they spend, in addition to attending the public school, half a day in the project centre. What we offer to the children is plenty: Hot meals, tutoring classes, hygiene and health care, creative and technical activities, computer classes, access to a library, excursions and sports, counselling and support for family members. READ MORE
TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR OUR CHILDREN AND THEIR WHOLE FAMILIES
We support our adolescent students in their vocational training until they stand on their own feet. We also support the families of our children: 100 mothers and nursing mothers were able to complete training which taught them how to become financially independent with a business activity. The families are regularly visited by an employee of ORE. He/she provides them with advice and monitors the welfare of the children.
HOME FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN
Whenever possible, we try to look after the children in their own families. If this is not an option because the children are for example orphans, they can have a home in one of our houses.
At present there is a larger home for younger children including some very small children whom the Government requested to be taken in by the project. Another provides care for HIV+ orphans; another for adolescent females aged 15-20, including blind females, and another for adolescent males. In this way ORE provides care through its home based services for blind students, boys and girls.
The houses are organized on the basis of family structures. A social mother, or social father at the boy’s house, takes care of the children with the older ones taking responsibility for the little ones. The children get support and care 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The aim is to offer the children the best possible opportunity to live in a home similar to a family. All houses are rented by Operation Rescue.
CENTRE IN MOZAMBIQUE
In a village near the coastal town of Quelimane, around 400 children regularly attend our centre. Most families barely have the basic necessities to enable their children to attend school regularly. READ MORE
CENTRE IN ADIGRAT
We make the same provision, although at a more basic level in Adigrat, another poor town in the conflict-ridden region bordering Eritrea. Currently, 60 children attend the project centre daily. READ MORE
CENTRE IN ADWA
Adwa is the latest project of Operation Rescue. The centre in the poor border town near Eritrea currently cares for 100 children. We would like to increase this number to 200 within the next few years. READ MORE
CURRENT BUILDING PROJECTS
The new building in Mekele has already 2 of the 4 planned floors completed providing storage rooms, class rooms and space to play. In addition, some rooms will be rented out and serve as a source of income.
HOW EVRYTHING STARTED
Christina and Marciano Teixeira moved in 1997 to Ethiopia. Marciano was working in a children’s home, while Christina raised their two boys. Marciano saw that poverty among the population was huge and Christina was confronted with the inhuman conditions in which the poorest children had to live. READ MORE
