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Peace and Hope Initiative Organization

|PROJECT PROPOSAL |

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|Kuraneza Early Childhood Development Project |

- Duration of the project :

- Executing Agency : P&HIO

- Funding Agency :

- Estimated cost/ Budget : 88,450

Contact person:

Mr. Albert MUSABYIMANA

Legal Representative and Founder

Sairah442@info@

Tel: (+250)788312740

KINYINYA Sector

GASABO District



0. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Evaluations of quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs globally have demonstrated that investments in ECD are among the most cost-effective investments a country can make and that ECD returns to investment are higher than for any other age group intervention .Further to this, investment in ECD enhances the child’s survival, growth and development and this is especially so for the marginalized and disadvantaged children.

ECD is the holistic development of a child during the first years of life in a socio-cultural context (physical, social, emotional, spiritual, moral, intellectual development. He or she requires nurturing care from parents, legal guardians and other caregivers, stimulating play and early learning opportunities, good health care, a nutritious and balanced diet, clean water, a hygienic environment, love, safety and security to grow up socially well-adapted and emotionally balanced. (Integrated ECD White Paper August: 2009).

ECD is thus an important element for Rwanda to achieve its vision of becoming a middle-income country by 2020 through its contribution to the development of a strong human capital base of innovative and industrious people who can work efficiently in different spheres of the economy.

Peace & Hope Initiative Organization (P&HO) is forwarding in a project proposal with an initiative of caring, educating and improving the standard of living of children from pre conception to six years with a primary focus on expanding access to and improving quality of:

▪ Pre-primary education for children from 3 to 6 years to prepare for school;

▪ Antenatal, post-natal preventive and basic health care services which improve child survival rates ( including breastfeeding)

▪ Nutrition services, which improve children’s physical development;

▪ Services for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and pediatric HIV care and support services.

▪ Water and sanitation services, which provide a hygienic environment for children.

The initiative is targeting marginalized and disadvantaged children mostly orphan and children living with vulnerability within the age range of 3years to 6 years and onwards. The project intends to help children especially in KINYINYA SECTOR, where poverty has prevailed most. The project’s objectives are based on caring, counseling, educating and empowering orphans and integrating Children living with vulnerability for a better future, hence increasing social and economic developments in the community and Rwanda at large. The project gives peace and hope to the OVCs and PHAs through Education like Nursery, Health, Hygiene and HIV prevention programs to parents and legal gardians in the community.

The Peace & Hope Initiative Organization will implement and manage the project’s activities effectively.

The project is estimated to cost $88,450 with a total cost share of 20% from Peace and Hope Initiative Organization and requested of 80% from the donor.

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We have 118 most vulnerable children especially OVCs, we limited the number due to premises and we hope to enroll more who deserted the school and can’t access ECD programs after our premises expansion .

2.0 INTRODUCTION

2.1 Project Background

There is strong evidence that the early years of life play a major role in a child’s development. Risk factors for poor development include poor maternal nutrition, lack of stimulation and learning opportunities, and exposure to violence, but protective factors such as breastfeeding and maternal education can reduce these negative effects. Over 40% of children under five years in Rwanda are experiencing developmental delays which may become irreversible. So, investments in pre- primary in Rwanda would be an effective means of ensuring that all children will be prepared to start primary school at the right age and to combat the current primary drop out (12.2%) and repetition rates (14%).

Rwanda has made enormous strives forward in improving access to education for girls and boys at all levels with a Primary net enrolment of 98% for girls, 95% for boys.(2012 Rwanda Education statistics). This has put Rwanda on track to achieve the education-related Millennium Development Goals. However, a pre-primary net enrolment rate of 13.2% for girls and 12.3% for boys is still to be improved.

GASHARU & MURAMA cells are the ones of KINYINYA’s RURAL Cells; it is among the poorest area with many orphans and people living with HIVAIDS, drop out and out of school children. After 1994 Rwanda Genocide against Tutsi, many of them lost their parents and extended families; they had to assume a parental role for their younger brothers and sisters while they were still children themselves.

The Government of Rwanda and Non-Government Organization tried extensively its best in replenishing these people’s properties, to find a solution to the country’s Child headed households-one of the many consequences of the Genocide.

Some of them were given houses, which they now call home. However, these people are still poor due to inadequate resources. For about 20 years, almost everyone in this area has been affected by Genocide; therefore poverty has prevailed in this area.They have been living in their homes without incomes to purchase food or water sanitation equipment. Often, they have to wait for donations, leaving many to suffer and many orphans have deserted their schooling to fulfil their other responsibilities and many resulted into unwanted pregnancies.

The children dropped out schools, others become street children, others are violated, and others are separated with their parents, became drug abusers and are now in conflict with the law committing such crimes like lobbers, violent and late if actions are not undertaken will become terrorist and murders

This therefore raises a need to motivate the parents of these children to work together for a brighter future to their Children who are vulnerable because there is lack of enough care takers. In addition, the community lacks local initiatives to promote ECD in the community due to limited capacity, ignorance and lack of similar service in the community. To end the above mentioned challenges Peace & Hope Initiative undertook a long life project with aim to promote Early Childhood Development.

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KINYINYA Genocide Survivors Village (Child Headed households, widows and Childless elderly and many other vulnerable people including single and young mothers with no means to care on their kids.

3.0 PROJECT RATIONALE

The project has taken the initiative to care for the OVCs and PHAs because their distant families have abandoned most of them, lack parental care and face many other difficult problems in life which makes ECD on the priority list. This Center aims at offering ECD services to children as well as empowering the community which emphasis on orphans and PHAs of this area; this will include providing them with food, clothes, medical services as well as good hygiene and education among other basic needs. Children will be provided with education from nursery and others ECD Catch up programs and this will enable them to obtain ECD necessary services and skills to promote ECD in the community. Counselling services will be provided to most Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) People Living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) to reduce on their worries about the future so that they can be able to work and accomplish their goals in life.

4.0 PROJECT STRATEGIES

4.1 VISION

To develop a community in which the vulnerable Children and orphans thrive and contribute to society’s development and to generate a general sense of well-being and to recover and exceed a quality of life

4.2 MISSION STATEMENT

Enhancing life of vulnerable children and Orphans through education, guidance and parental care.

4.3 Nursery School Brand & Goal

Together we succeed

4.4 Projects Objectives

▪ Provide pre-primary education for children from 3 to 6 years to prepare for school; which a focus on the most vulnerable children

▪ Facilitate access to antenatal, post-natal preventive and basic health care services which improve child survival rates ( including breastfeeding, canceling etc )

▪ Improve nutrition services, which improve children’s physical development;

▪ Facilitate access to services for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and paediatric HIV care and support services.

▪ Promote water and sanitation services, which provide a hygienic environment for children.

5.0. PROJECT LEGAL STATUS

Kuraneza ECD is a project under Peace and Hope Initiative Organization (P&HIO). The Organization has been registered at KINYINYA Sector, GASABO District and Rwanda Governance Board to carry out its activities legally.

6.0. Promotion

The project’s activities will be promoted by Peace and Hope Initiative Organization, which will be in charge of monitoring its benefits and contribution to the community.

7.0 Peace & Hope Pre -school and life uplifting program

The projects have enrolled seventy eight children at the start and as the project grows we hope to enroll more children. The project aims at promoting more educational opportunities to develop their intellectual capabilities and talents, hence contributing significantly to the social and economic development in Community and Rwanda at Large.

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Early childhood is a significant and distinct time in life that must be nurtured, respected, valued and supported in its own right. A milk as a sign of a Brighter Future.

7.1. P&HIO & Community Contribution

The community will contribute to the projects by having two parents Leader on the Boards of Directors as well as participating in pre- school program. The motivation has been done house to house by Peace & Hope Initiative Organization to make them understand that they have to try to work hard in order to be able to feed their children after coming from the center because there is no other heritage to their children than helping them to Study.

8.0. PROJECT JUSTIFICATION

The project needs at least 88.450$$ of funds to kick off some of its activities of expansion, Community sensitization on health care, nutrition, hygiene and HIV prevention. The project will be under the management of Peace and Hope Initiative Organization for proper effectiveness and management with consistent reporting and government inspection. The project is among the few projects that provide this kind of program in Rwanda. The project’s location lacks such Organization or institutions to help people living with Vulnerability and orphans since the existing of GASHARU Community.

9.0. Responsibilities of persons

9.1. Board of Directors

The board will be the top decision-maker for the project and run the project effectively and monitor its progress.

9.2. Head Teacher

The head teacher runs the school on a daily basis. He will report to the Board of Directors any other issues that will need attention other than his own like discipline of the children, remuneration and other activities that may arise. He will receive up to 100.000 per month as net Salary.

9.3. Deputy Head Teacher

He will be responsible for the running of the school activities while assisting the Head teacher. He will receive the work delegated to him/her by the Head teacher and will stand in for the Head teacher just in case of anything. He will earn up to 80.000 per month as gross salary.

9.4. Director of Studies

He/ She is mainly concerned with ensuring that the school program follows the curriculum as defined by the Ministry of Education. He will also take on the duty of monitoring teachers and how they are performing in their various fields of teaching. He will earn up to 80.000 per month as gross salary.

9.5. Care giver

All the different subjects shall have at least two care givers and they will be responsible to teach, set exams and monitor them, take part in extra-curricular activities and other responsibilities that may be extended to them by their superiors. They will earn up to 75,000 per month plus other allowances that may be deemed necessary by the Board of Directors.

9.6 Non-teaching staff

They are the people who are responsible for the other activities that exclude teaching. They are to perform different duties according to their qualification. Their payment will be in wages and salaries depending on the duties they are performing.

9.7 Community mobilizers

This is care givers tasked to mobilize the community on ECD

10. Infrastructure

10.1 Administration Block

This building will contain offices of the; Head Teacher, Deputy Head Teacher, Director of Studies, Secretary, Bursar, staff room and Reading hall .

10.2 Classroom block

These are the buildings in which we expect our children to attend their lessons per day. We need to expand for Catch up children.

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Existing rooms who are helping 118 vulneravle children .

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We need to expand for admission of vulnerable children on pending list!

10.3 Games pitch and sports equipment

In a bid to encourage extracurricular activities the games grounds and sports equipment will be for sports purposes. They are to be located near the school premises in that children will not have to walk very long distances to do their sport. This will be done in the next phase of the project.

10.5 Computer Laboratory

We are living in a highly computerized world and given that the country has embarked on promoting computer use by allowing importation of the computers as we know one child one computer. Computer skill will empower the children to compete well in the changing world. \

10.6 Photocopiers, Printers, Projectors, Digital cameras Computers with Internet

These are the computer related equipment’s that will be used by the children and staff. The computer laboratory will have 20 computers, the staff room will have 5 computers, and each laboratory will have a computer the rest will be for the administration

10.7 Library and Textbook materials

These are the books that will be dictated by the school curriculum and other requirements. These books will range from all the programs being offered in the school.

10.8 Toilets and Pit latrines

Since hygiene is one of the priorities of the project, we shall need to have various latrines around the school. We shall have two toilets in the school one for the boys and the other for the girls, one for the staff then other for the non-teaching staff.

10.9 Dinning, Store and Main hall

This is the hall intended to be where the students have their meals throughout the day. It will also act as the main hall for other activities like entertainment, Reading the books and school final assemblies.

10.10 Electricity and water systems installation

Most of the centers activities will need Hydro Electricity Power for the running of the gadgets. Water installation will be for the maintenance of the hygiene in the school and will be source from the nearest water source to the school premises.

10.11 School Vehicle

The school vehicle will be used to transport the school supplies during the course of the terms while the staff and children to travel on field trips and any other important appointments on behalf of the school will use the school van. Since we are also dealing with traumatized children, this car will facilitate to transport the children at the Hospital.

11. ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT

The project will engage in the following activities

1. Pre-school programs

- Nursery school

- Nutrition services

- Hygiene, water sanitation services

- Health care and canseling ( Weighting)

2. Community programs

- Door to door Awareness campaign

- Community training on ECD programs ( Nutrition, health care, Hygiene and sanitation)

- Community Mother Leaders

3. Monitoring and Evaluation

13. Enrollment pattern

The project will be in position to enroll 200 children at the beginning of 2015.

14. Project Implementation

14.1 Time line of the main projects:

|Activities |Temps |

| |J |F |M |

|1 |Already existing class rooms |Peace & Hope Contribution |10.000.000 |

|2 |Building new class room |To buy a plot of Land |12.000.000 |

| | |Manual Excavation |1.200.000 |

| | |Materials |20.000.000 |

| | |Works force / Labour |3.200.000 |

| | |Supervision of the activities |2.400.000 |

|Sub total : |46.445.000 |

|3 |New Class room Materials |Purchasing desks |300.000 |

| | |School Materials |500.000 |

| | |Maintenance plus technicien |100.000 |

| | |School electricity |100.000 |

|Sous total |1.000.000 |

|4 |Staff |Head Master of Caregivers |720.000 |

| | |Head Caregivers |600.000 |

| | |Caregivers |480.000 |

| | |Non-teaching staff |300.000 |

| | |Follow up and monitoring of program |400.000 |

|Sub- total |2.500.000 |

|Transport of the Organization |Not now |

|TOTAL |59.945.000 |

|GRAND TOTAL in USA Dollar |88.450$$ |

|DETAILS PROPOSED BUDGET FOR PEACE AND HOPE / ECD CENTER /NURSERY SCHOOL |

|PARTICULARS |QUANTITY |MONTHLY SALARY |TOTAL IN 1 Semester |TOTAL IN YEAR |

|Personnel |

|Executive Staff |

|Project Director |1 |400,000 |1,200,000 |3,600,000 |

|Project Coordinator |1 |250,000 |750,000 |2,225,000 |

|Board of Directors |13 |- |- |- |

|Head Teacher |1 |100,000 |300,000 |900,000 |

|Deputy H.T |1 |80,000 |240,000 |720,000 |

|Director of studies |1 |80,000 |240,000 |720,000 |

|Bursar |1 |120,000 |360,000 |1,080,000 |

|Teachers |10 |75,000 |750,000 |2,225,000 |

|Matron |1 |- |- |- |

|Secretary |1 |60,000 |180,000 |540,000 |

|Support Staff |

|Store Master |1 |40,000 |120,000 |360,000 |

|Driver |2 |30,000 |60,000 |180,000 |

|Security guard |2 |20,000 |40,000 |120,000 |

|Cooks |6 |- |- |- |

|Office messenger |2 |- |- |- |

|Nursery and Compound Cleaners |4 |25,000 |100,000 |300,000 |

|Sub-Total | | | |

|Monitoring process ( to me determined by General Assembly ) |

|Report writing |- |- |- | |

|Convening Meetings of the |- |- |- |- |

|project's assembly. | | | | |

|OTHER REQUIREMENTS |

|Infrastructure |

|Plot of Land |1 |12,000,000 |12,000,000 |12,000,000 |

|Dormitories ( Girls & Boy ) |2 |- |- |- |

|Administration block |1 |5,000,000 |5,000,000 |5,000,000 |

|Vocational work shop |1 |- |- |- |

|Classroom block |5 |15,000,000 |15,000,000 |15,000,000 |

|Dining hall/Main hall/ |1 |7,000,000 |7,000,000 |7,000,0000 |

|kitchen/store | | | | |

|Store for equipment |1 |2,000,000 |2,000,000 |2,000,000 |

|Pit latrines |5 |500,000 |500,000 |500,000 |

|Toilets |6 |1,500,000 |1,500,000 |1,500,000 |

|Library and accessories |1 |- |- |- |

|Computer laboratory |1 |- |- |- |

|Community-water well |1 |400,000 |400,000 |400,000 |

|Electricity installation | |300,000 |300,000 |

|Water supply system | |100,000 |100,000 |

|Tools and Equipment |

|Beds | |- |- |- |

|Text books and stationary | |500,000 |500,000 |

|White boards | |50,000 |50,000 |

|Computers |2 |600,000 |1,200,000 |1,200,000 |

|Internet |

|Digital camera |3 |150,000 |150,000 |150,000 |

|Projector |1 |- |- |- |

|Sports equipment |1 |- |- |- |

|Photocopiers |2 |800,000 |800,000 |800,000 |

|Printers |2 |400,000 |800,000 |800,000 |

|School Vehicle |1 |3,175,000 |3,175,000 |3,175,000 |

|Sawing machines |10 |- |- |- |

|Furniture | |2,500,000 |2,500,000 |

|Mosquito nets |200 |- |- |- |

|Food stuff | |- |- |

|Mobilization |

|Change behavior |1 |300,000 |300,000 |300,000 |

|Trainer Transport |1 |- |- |- |

|Fuel & maintenance |1 |- |- |

|Contingency | |2,000,000 |2,000,000 |

| | | | |

|SUB-TOTAL | | |59.945.000 |

|TOTAL COST In RWANDAN FRANCS | | |59.945.000 RWF |

|GRAND TOTAL in USA Dollar | | |88, 450 $$ |

16.1 PROJECT SUMMURY

The Total Cost estimated: 59.945.000 Rwandan Francs

Peace & Hope Initiative Contribution: 12.500.000 Rwandan Francs

Financial outcome needed: 47.445.000 Rwandan Francs

One USD is equivalent to 680 RFW

The slit means that activity or planned work will be done after implementing the budgeted ones.

17. MONITORING AND PROGRESS

The P&HIO has an executive committee and a control committee to ensure that all activities will be monitored and have a positive outcome.

The P&HIO has no negative environmental impacts. Its positive impact will come from the reduction of poverty rates in the villages, which will help permanently to eradicate the wide-spread survival concerns that previously existed among those residents. This will increase the overall productivity of the youth in these local areas, and will decrease their absenteeism from employment, school, agricultural work, and other productive activities due to poverty-related illness.

I will use consultant and the board of the directors to follow up each daily activity.

18. PROJECT LOCATION

The project is located about 0.5 KM from to the compound of Radio Deutsche well, almost 3 KM from NYARUTARAMA Road.

Peace & Hope Nursery and Catch up School

GASHARU Cell

KINYINYA Sector

GASABO District

KG 386 Street, Kigali, Rwanda (Google Map or earth)

For advices and enquiries of partnership please contact.

Mr. Albert MUSABYIMANA

Legal Representative and Founder

Sairah442@

Tel: (+250)788312740



Rwanda.

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