PROJECT PROPOSAL. Jatukik Providence Training Center for. for Orphans and Street Children in Kinshasa, Congo

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1 PROJECT PROPOSAL Jatukik Providence Training Center for Orphans and Street Children in Kinshasa, Congo I. SUMMARY Project Title: Proposing Organization: Orphans Street Children Training Street Children to Earn a Living through Poultry Raising. Jatukik Providence Training Center for Person in Charge of Project: Fr. Jean-Claude Atusameso, Executive Director of Address: Target Group: Congo 1875 I Street NW Suite 563 Washington, DC Orphans and abandoned children in Kinshasa, Project Timeframe: October, 2010 March, 2011 Total Project Cost: $93, Funding Request: $78, (Local Contribution: $5,460.00; Grant from Go Campaign: $10,000.00) II. PROJECT BACKGROUND Our project will be carried out in Kimbanseke, an outlying suburban county of Kinshasa; the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kimbanseke has an area of 337 square kilometers and an estimated population of 750,000 people. It has a wet tropical climate that is favorable to agriculture. It is a relatively metropolitan area that is flat and open because of the population. The West part of the region is bored by the Congolese river. Furthermore, because of the lack of industrial activity, the principal livelihood of the population remains subsistence agriculture. This primarily involves production of cash crops, market gardening and raising animals.

2 The primary foodstuffs are manioc, groundnuts (peanuts), vegetables, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and corn. The population of Kimbaseke, in general, lives in chronic poverty and misery. Incomes are very low and opportunities barely exist. The result includes widespread social dysfunction characterized by prostitution, a high rate of STD s, and rapid growth in the population of street children. III. HISTORY AND PURPOSE The Jatukik Providence Training Center for Street Children was founded in April 2008, by Father Jean-Claude, the CEO and Executive Director of the Jatukik Providence Foundation, Priest of the Diocese of Kikwit. The Center s primary mission is the education of youth, and the impetus to its creation lies in the destitute condition of the marginalized young people of Kimbaseke. The Jatukik Providence Center is one of the constituent parts of the Counseling and Social Action Center, which at present serves the needs of orphans and street children, providing for their daily needs and health. A team of skilled providers runs the center, one with a Masters degree in clinical psychology, and they work to promote the spiritual, physical, moral and intellectual recovery and growth of the street children. IV. STATEMENT OF NEED We serve street children from 3 to 17 years of age, whose life to date has been a struggle for survival, and whose means of subsistence has been through stealing and begging. They live as described in the Gospels: For each day its sorrow. What will become of them in the future? The Center itself lacks sufficient income generating activity to finance itself. Thus, we would like to develop a way to self-finance the Center and provide to the children a means of livelihood. Our aim is to fund and build poultry operation where the children will learn how to raise hens and other poultry, and derive sources of income from the sale of poultry and poultry products. But, currently, the financial means are missing to bring this project to reality. V. PROJECT DESCRIPTION 5.1 Nature of the Project 5.2 Project Objective To impact the spiritual, intellectual and professional capacity of street children through the use of psychological and social means, in order to reintegrate them into society and permit them to have a better future.

3 5.3. Specific Goals Specific goals in furtherance of the project are to: a) create a source of income to support our activities on behalf of street children; b) help the children reintegrate into society, and learn to take care of themselves; c) teach the children how to raise poultry through a 12-month training program; d) show them how to manage, save and invest money; e) train them in how to manufacture foodstuffs resultant to poultry raising like mayonnaise, and to use poultry byproducts for farming (e.g., application of fertilizer). 5.4 Beneficiaries of the Project Orphans and street children living at the Jatukik Providence orphanage and Training Center The broader population of Kimbaseke who will enjoy the goods and services produced by the project 5.5 Means to Carry Out the Project a) Human Resources 1 Licensed Clinical Psychologist 4 Social Trainers Children 1 Veterinarian/Trainer 1 Guard b) Material Resources 1 Hen House Materials and supplies for hen house (hens, chicks, plastic buckets, feedstuff, etc.) c) Financial Resources $5,460 invested to date (local contribution) $10, (grant from Go Campaign) $11,990 (funding request) 5.6 Project Activities

4 October 2010: Operation of hen house (ongoing below) November 2010: Training of children in economic matters (counting, buying and selling prices, profit, loss, etc.) December 2010: Training in economics continues (P&L, investment, etc.) January 2011: Training in production of foodstuffs (e.g., mayonnaise) February 2011: Training in poultry meat conservation March 2011: Practice and ongoing training of children 5.7 Project Results After 6 months of learning and practice, the children will be trained to raise poultry, to sell eggs, poultry meat and the byproducts of poultry raising like mayonnaise. They will have skills in managing a business operation and better able to build a future for themselves. In addition, the Training Center will derive income from these poultry raising activities, and thus able to finance itself and pay for needed services (e.g., the veterinary trainer). 5.8 Calendar of Activities October 2010: Operation of hen house (ongoing below) November 2010: Training of children in economic matters (counting, buying and selling prices, profit, loss, etc.) December 2010: Training in economics continues (P&L, investment, etc.) January 2011: Training in production of foodstuffs (e.g., mayonnaise) February 2011: Training in poultry meat conservation March 2011: Practice and ongoing training of children 5.9 Project Control and Follow-Up The control and follow-up of the project will be ensured by the Board and management of the Jatukik Providence Training Center, and by the oversight of the C.E.A.S. and veterinary trainer. VI. PROJECT BUDGET (all monetary figures in USD) Purchase Item Location Projected Cost Local Contribution Funding Request 1000 chicks (2 mo.) Kinshasa 1000 x $10 = $10,000 $10, chicks (1 mo.) Kinshasa 500 x $8 = $4,000 $4,000 Wood chips Kinshasa 200 bags x $2 = $400 $400 Feed for poultry A1 Kinshasa 200 bags x $20 =4000 $4000 Feed for poultry A2 Kinshasa 200 bags x $20 = $4000 $4000 Feed for poultry A3 Kinshasa 200 bags x $20 = $4000

5 $4000 Vaccine vs. variola Kinshasa 100 bottles x $2 = Vaccine vs. bronchitis Kinshasa 100 bottles x $20 = Anti-parasite Kinshasa 10,000 gr. x $0.5 = $5000 $5000 Amprolium Kinshasa 100 pieces x $5 = $500 $500 Oxytetra Kinshasa 15 kg x $80 = $1200 $1200 Vitamins Kinshasa 20 kg x $50 = $1000 $1000 Feeding troughs Kinshasa 200 x $10 = 2000 Plastic buckets Kinshasa 200 x $10 = Plastic basins Kinshasa 100 x $5 = $500 $500 Hen house Kinshasa $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 materials Electrical wiring Kinshasa Water system Kinshasa Salary of guard Kinshasa $3000 $3000 $3000 Fee for veterinarian Kinshasa $2,500 $2,500 $2,500 Fee for trainer Kinshasa $2,500 $2,500 Transportation Kinshasa $3,000 $3,000 Management Kinshasa $6,000 $6,000 TOTAL $78, Production Estimates Note: assumes four months (16 weeks) to get operation up and running prior to first sales, thus 36 weeks of sales available in 1 st year: a) Eggs for consumption: 200 hens x 7 eggs/week per hen x 36 weeks = 50,400 eggs x $0.02/egg = $1,008 b) Poultry meat: 200 hens per trimester x 2 = 1200 hens x $3.50/chicken = $4,500 Total Income (1 st year) $5,508 VII. PROJECT EVALUATION At the conclusion of the project, an evaluation will be conducted by the Jatukik Providence Training Center and by a qualified independent reviewer of the project results and its impact on the target group of children. VIII. BANK INFORMATION

6 Bank Account of : M &T Bank Account Name: with mention of Project Jatukik Providence Training Center. Account Number: Thank you for your interest and generosity. Respectfully submitted: Father Jean-Claude Atusameso, Executive Director