PROJECT PROPOSAL

HUMANITY ASSOCIATION FOR ORPHANS

(HAFO)

CONTACT ADDRESS:
SERREKUNDA KMC Post Office Box 2179, Serrekunda,
The Gambia, Tel :(+220) 9818822/7858822
Email: hafo61@yahoo.com

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MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to instill in the minds of orphans, less privileged
and sick the spirit of equal right and equal opportunity.

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PROJECT TITLE
The project title shall be:
HUMANITY ASSOCIATION FOR ORPHANS (HAFO)
(To rehabilitate all sickly and orphans by providing them the basic
medical support and skills in order to be self reliance and to also
contribute to national development)

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PROJECT LOCATION
The project is intended to cover orphans as well as sick persons
who cannot afford to pay for their medical bills in The Gambia i.e.
rural and urban area but the central location of this associations
office is Serrekunda.

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PROJECT DURATION
The project in intended to last for a period of one year within
which the organization must have being strong enough to sustain
its normal activities. The project is designed to start in
September, 2010 which is the start of the academic year.

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PROJECT BANIFICIARIES /TARGET GROUPS

The project seeks to cater for two sets of beneficiaries.
1. The first set is orphans who are already in various schools who
find it difficult to pay for their schooling. They are considered
as the direct beneficiaries.
2. While the indirect beneficiaries are those sickly, and
HIV/AIDS victims who are already in various medical and
health centres who find it difficult to pay for their medical
bills and

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IMPLEMENTING AGENCY
The executive members of the organization
The CEO and the Assistance CEO,
P. O. Box 2179 Serrekunda,
The Gambia
Email: hafo61@yahoo.com

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TOTAL PEOJECT BUDGET

The total project budget is estimated at, Two Hundred and
Eighty six Thousand, five hundred dalasis (286, 500.00)
equivalent to Eleven Thousand, Nineteen Dollars, Twenty Three
pence ($11, 019.23).

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ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND
HAFO is an indigenous community based organization that was
established in order to salvage the deplorable rate of certain
members of our societies that we consider as less privileged.
These set of people are not considered during decision making
within their family cycle, in their community and the country at
large. They do not normally socialized, interact and always isolate
themselves as they have seen themselves as inferior even among
their peer groups. In most cases they have no proper family care
and usually have less facilities of going to school and cannot even
provide for their sustenance.
It is based on this background that a cross section of the
present executive sat and thought of ways to salvage the
deplorable conditions of such people who deserved to be heard,
listened to and interact with everyone they wish to, and come up
with this initiative and hence formed this organization.

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PEOJECT DESCTIPTION OR DETAILS

This project was established on the bases of humanitarian from
past experience in the schools in which we reach as well as being
counselors. We were able to find out that, there are lots of
students in senior secondary schools who are unable to pay their
school fees, just because they have lost their parent(s) who are
their main sponsors. Because of this they decide to leave school
and live a hopeless life. We also realized that most of theses
orphans do not have direct family who are willing to take good
care of them. They instead depend on friends for their livelihood.
It is on this background that we started to pay school fees for
some students in our respective school out of our meager
salaries, especially for those vulnerable cases that we were able
to identify. We did that exercise for about two years, and we
therefore decided to set up an organization to see into the
affairs of such students, not only in our schools in which we
teach, but to other schools as well. This organization was
therefore named HAFO which was officially set up in 2008 and
finally registered in 2009. To provide schooling facilities for less
privileged students as well as drop out from school by providing
basic skills and medication for the sickly who cannot afford to
pay for their medical bills in hospitals and health care centres.

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PROBLEM STATEMENT ANALYSIS

Considering the level of our earnings as members, the sustenance
of such venture was highly doubtful. We may find it difficult to
continue paying school fees for student, especially so when the
number of vulnerable students begins to increase. The cost of
Senior Secondary School education is not easy task and
therefore needed reasonable source of funds.
We also considered the fact that, these vulnerable students are
not only in the schools we teach, but could be found in other
schools as well. In order to identify these less privilege students
in other schools apart from the schools we teach was a difficult
task and therefore needed a concerted effort, the hands of
three or four people is not enough to cover the targeted areas.
Another very acute problem we are facing is in the provision of
medical support to the sickly persons who are in critical ill
condition at hospitals and health centres. We also need to provide
them with basic medical support as well as other skills that will
help others to be self reliance
In order to combat these problems, there is need to set up a
formidable organization that composed of dedicated individuals,
that are ready to render their services to such people in order to
develop our beloved nation as the saying goes many heads are
better than a few

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GOALS
The main goal of this organization is to provide educational
facilities to those that cannot afford it, as well as improving their
skills in other fields in order to make them self reliance.
Secondly, to provide medical support to the sickly persons who
are at critical conditions in hospitals and health centres who
cannot afford to pay their medical bills.
We also intend to create awareness on the menace of HIV/AIDS
and discouraged early marriages and teenage pregnancies.
To develop the attitude of these less privileged youths that
already think that they have no future and to instill in their minds
the spirit of hope for their future.

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AIMS
This organization aims at providing educational facilities for
the less privileged in our society
We also intend to establish a training centre where
students will be trained in different fields in order to be
self reliance.
The organization also aims at providing lodging for the
homeless children. This will involve providing basic needs like
feeding, clothing, medical, and right to socialize
We plead to salvage the deplorable condition of these less
privileged students in our society.
To provide sensitization programmes on HIV/AIDS and
teenage pregnancies

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OBJECTIVES
To inculcate in the minds of orphans that they have the
equal right as much as every member in the society
To make sure that orphans acquire the desired education as
any other child in the society
To make it possible for orphans to acquire different skills,
that will make then self reliance
To provide the basic needs of youths and children while
going through their life that will be significant and positive
change in their lives.
To promote social, economic, and cultural development of
the orphans in our society
To empower every orphan in a multi-dimensional way in order
to access both human and material resources in the state.
To help sustain the sickly persons with adequate medical
facilities
To instill in the minds of the youths the HIVAIDS
awareness and teenage pregnancies

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PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES

This project will have a carefully focus unit, which will be located
in Serrekunda and will be responsible for the general
implementation of the project. There will also be sub unit in rural
head quarters. These sub units will be headed by the Secretary
General and will receive instruction from the central unit, and
must also report on monthly basis to the central unit.
In each sub unit, there will be representatives in nearly all Senior
Secondary schools who shall be responsible to identify the
vulnerable students and forward the list to the sub unit
committee for thorough scrutiny. The final list will then be
submitted to the central unit. The sub unit team is also obliged to
visit each school where we have sponsored students at least once
every term. Enquiries will be made through the principals, class
teachers, as well as the students themselves. This exercise will
be done monthly to students that gain sponsorship from out
organization in order to ascertain the vulnerability of theses
students, as well as to access their level of performance in
school.
If the organization realizes that a student cannot make it up
academically, the committee will sit to decide the fate of that
student and will decide whether to withdraw that student from
school and put him/her in any vocational training to learn skill
jobs.
This exercise will be carried out at the end of each academic
year when every sponsored student must have sent his/her
report card through the sub unit to be presented to the central
unit.
The sub unit is also responsible to visit hospitals and health
centres to identify acute cases that need emergency medical
assistance but not available and report immediately to the head
unit. This exercise will be done on a regular basis.
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EXPECTED OUTCOME
A well educated orphan youth population would be developed
Little or not dropout of orphans from schools
Orphans contribution in national development as well
contributing in family development
Well sensitized HIV/AIDS youth population in the
community
Emergency medical assistance, less death and a healthy
nation.

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ACTIVITY TO BE UNDERTAKEN
At central unit level, this unit supervises the whole
implementation of the project which comprises of the Executive
members of the organization. They provide instructions to all the
sub units in the form of identification of the vulnerable students,
collection of school bills for every sponsored students, payment
of bills through the various schools accounts and visiting the
various schools, where we have student at least once every term.
This team is also responsible to take care of the feeding, clothing
and general maintenance of our students in our home centre.
At sub unit level, this committee is bound to visit, all the schools
where we have students at least twice in a term, in order to
gather much information about the performance of the students.
They collect the report cards from all our sponsored students
and submit them to the central unit. They must also make sure
that the fees of all our sponsored students are paid in full and on
time.
On a daily basis the sub unit is expected to visit hospitals and
health centres to assess the response of sponsored patients from
medical treatment and report to the head unit.
Note: At the end of every academic year, the organization will
hold or organize general meeting order wise called Annual General
Meeting (AGM) where problems, success and obstacles are
discussed, and also planning for the coming year. The AGM is
schedule to take place this year in August 2010 and also for
subsequent years.

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INDICATORS
In the verge of providing support to all orphans, sickly persons in
our immediate societies, the project will stand to achieve about
90% of orphans and medical cases attaining the following:
Quality academic education
Skill knowledge indifferent fields
Basic needs like feeding, clothing, medication, etc
Confidence in the minds of all orphans for a brighter future.
A well educated youth population on the effect of
HIV/AIDS epidemic

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SUSTAINABILITY OF DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

The identification of dedicated representatives in various sub
units for the organization:
Students having access to the main office, at any time they
are faced with problems
Graduating students are employed in this organization to
provide lectures in our training centre
Donor moneys are put in fixed deposit; in a reputable bank
in order on incur profit
The payment of fees through the respective schools
accounts
The payment of medical bill through the hospitals and
medical health care accounts

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MONITORING AND EVALUATION

The project management will form a small team of not more that
seven members responsible for internal monitoring and evaluation
of project implementation. The team shall work with a head that
is a monitoring expert, who must be a well trained project
manager and report to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
He/She shall supervise the monitoring activities of the team, and
make sure that entire activities of the project are reflected in
the report prepared by the monitoring team. After the
commencement of the project a comprehensive report must be
submitted to the executive team.
The team shall follow the following principles in the monitoring
and evaluation exercise of the project activities.

Mode of payment of school fees

Feeding programs activities
General financial transactions at the banks
General implementation strategies
General sensitization on HIV/AIDS programmes
Evaluation of all sponsored medical cases

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THE ORGANOGRAM - MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

Chief Executive Officer

(CEO)

Assistance Chief
Executive Office

Secretary General

Assistance Secretary
General

Project Manager

Public Relation Officer

Financial Secretary

Treasurer

Social Organising
Secretary

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