More about our plan for the future

In order to become more self-sustainable, or less dependent on donations for our own sustenance, so that we can grow and do even more for the community, we have created a step-by-step plan which will help the children a lot. As mentioned before in another blog, we aim to farm our own food, so that we spend less money at the market and can even sell an overage to provide for other needed things.

Through the farm and through donations we aim to rebuild the MACIS school, where our children and those of the neighborhood can have a good, close-to-home education, from primary all the way to senior high school. Those that want to be teachers in the surrounding villages can come and teach at the school and receive a place to live and free food to it, in return for a little bit of help during harvest-time or weeding.

Our other aim is to build new houses for the children to live in since there is little space in our current home. This way we can provide for all 400 children to live in the same place, so that they are no longer scattered across the villages (sometimes in situations that are not wanted) but they can grow up together as the family that we are. For this, ofcourse, we do need our new well.

When all this is ready we want to build houses for the elderly as well. In Ghana there is no system such as in Holland, where the government or private companies take care of the elderly. The family of the man or woman take care of them. But what if you don't have family? Or what if they can't take care of you for personal reasons? Or what if your condition is too complicated for your family to know how to care for you? We want to offer homes (real homes, not corporate homes) to these people and take care of them. We want to step into the gap when there isn't anyone who can fill it. We have nurses in our networks, we work closely together with hospitals and we have the room to accommodate them, but what we need is the money to build accommodations for them.