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FairPlay is looking for donors and sponsors for our next big project: a daycare centre for mentally handicapped children in Cusco.
The centre will play a vital role in our efforts to improve the lives of this city’s most disadvantaged inhabitants. By providing support, education and training to parents, it will also further our mission to help people build better futures for themselves and their families.
There are approximately 9,000 children below the age of 16 with mental handicaps in Cusco, although the great social stigma that surrounds the issue in Peru means that it is difficult to obtain exact numbers. Partly for this reason, there is very little support for these children or assistance for their parents.
FairPlay, in partnership with Manos Unidas, a local charity that specializes in caring for young people with mental handicaps, plans to change all that by creating Cusco’s first centre for pre-school children with mental disabilities.
Our centre will house diagnostic facilities and provide a specialized early intervention programme for our children as well as advice for their parents. We aim to cater for 10 groups of eight children at any one time, with groups arranged according to developmental needs rather than age. Each will have their own teacher on hand at all times. Our doors will be open to families who can pay for our services, and – with the help of donations, volunteers and profits generated by our Spanish and salsa classes - those who cannot.
Of course, we realize that it is not only children with mental disabilities who sometimes need support. Many children in Cusco live in extreme poverty and need help to get a fair chance in life, which is why our centre will also be a base from where our staff will go out into the poorest communities in the city and offer free healthcare, social care and nutrition advice to these children and their families.
At the heart of our centre’s staff will be fully-trained Peruvians with appropriate university qualifications, including a nutritionist, a hygiene and health specialist, a psychologist, a speech therapist and a physiotherapist.
Continuing our track record of offering free, high quality training to local people, we will provide training in health and social care to additional employees. Manos Unidas will provide specialist instruction in how to deal with young, mentally handicapped children.
Our Peruvian staff will be supported by international interns and volunteers, primarily students and graduates of relevant degree courses who will work with us to gain experience and in some cases course credit.
We are currently fundraising for the initial land purchase and construction costs of the centre, and the opening date for the centre will depend on the outcome of this. However, we plan to raise the required funds by early 2011.
We will then need an estimated three months to secure a location and purchase the land, one year for construction, and a further year for training, staffing and organizing the running of the centre. On this timetable we will be able to offer services for the children from early 2013.
We need approximately US$200,000 to get our daycare centre up and running. This includes US$80,000 to buy the necessary land, and $120,000 for construction, furnishing and decoration, based on an architect’s estimate. We are actively pursuing funding from individual donors, philanthropists, foundations and businesses.
As Fairplay’s operating costs are covered by income from its language school and existing donations from our Belgian supporter group, 100 per cent of any new donation will directly towards the daycare centre project.
In addition to financial support, FairPlay is also interested in offers of logistical support or donations in kind, particularly of time or expertise from companies in the construction industry.
If you are interested in supporting this fantastic project, please get in touch. Thank you.
The centre will play a vital role in our efforts to improve the lives of this city’s most disadvantaged inhabitants. By providing support, education and training to parents, it will also further our mission to help people build better futures for themselves and their families.
There are approximately 9,000 children below the age of 16 with mental handicaps in Cusco, although the great social stigma that surrounds the issue in Peru means that it is difficult to obtain exact numbers. Partly for this reason, there is very little support for these children or assistance for their parents.
FairPlay, in partnership with Manos Unidas, a local charity that specializes in caring for young people with mental handicaps, plans to change all that by creating Cusco’s first centre for pre-school children with mental disabilities.
Our centre will house diagnostic facilities and provide a specialized early intervention programme for our children as well as advice for their parents. We aim to cater for 10 groups of eight children at any one time, with groups arranged according to developmental needs rather than age. Each will have their own teacher on hand at all times. Our doors will be open to families who can pay for our services, and – with the help of donations, volunteers and profits generated by our Spanish and salsa classes - those who cannot.
Of course, we realize that it is not only children with mental disabilities who sometimes need support. Many children in Cusco live in extreme poverty and need help to get a fair chance in life, which is why our centre will also be a base from where our staff will go out into the poorest communities in the city and offer free healthcare, social care and nutrition advice to these children and their families.
At the heart of our centre’s staff will be fully-trained Peruvians with appropriate university qualifications, including a nutritionist, a hygiene and health specialist, a psychologist, a speech therapist and a physiotherapist.
Continuing our track record of offering free, high quality training to local people, we will provide training in health and social care to additional employees. Manos Unidas will provide specialist instruction in how to deal with young, mentally handicapped children.
Our Peruvian staff will be supported by international interns and volunteers, primarily students and graduates of relevant degree courses who will work with us to gain experience and in some cases course credit.
We are currently fundraising for the initial land purchase and construction costs of the centre, and the opening date for the centre will depend on the outcome of this. However, we plan to raise the required funds by early 2011.
We will then need an estimated three months to secure a location and purchase the land, one year for construction, and a further year for training, staffing and organizing the running of the centre. On this timetable we will be able to offer services for the children from early 2013.
We need approximately US$200,000 to get our daycare centre up and running. This includes US$80,000 to buy the necessary land, and $120,000 for construction, furnishing and decoration, based on an architect’s estimate. We are actively pursuing funding from individual donors, philanthropists, foundations and businesses.
As Fairplay’s operating costs are covered by income from its language school and existing donations from our Belgian supporter group, 100 per cent of any new donation will directly towards the daycare centre project.
In addition to financial support, FairPlay is also interested in offers of logistical support or donations in kind, particularly of time or expertise from companies in the construction industry.
If you are interested in supporting this fantastic project, please get in touch. Thank you.
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