Child Protection Kenya Project #56109

Two New Centers Help 100+ Orphaned Children

by Nehemiah's Restoration

Project Report | Jun 28, 2024
Monitoring and Evaluation of our Two New Groups

By Rob Bollinger | Founder and President of Nehemiah's Restoration

Founder & President addresses the Madungu group

We recently embarked on an insightful field trip with our Founder and President, Retired Rev. Rob Bollinger, and Vice President and Executive Director of Medical Health Services, Robbie Bollinger PA-C. During our visits with two community groups, we had the privilege of hearing firsthand about their initiatives to support Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC). We dedicated substantial time to crafting individual budgets tailored to each group's specific needs. Currently, we are finalizing comprehensive monitoring and evaluation tools to enable these groups to provide us with detailed reports on how our support is being utilized.

A significant component of these reporting tools will include monitoring the Seven Essential Services provided to the OVC and tracking their physical, spiritual, and mental well-being. Our next steps include formalizing our partnerships through the signing of memorandums of understanding with each group in October. Following this, we will conduct training sessions to ensure the effective implementation of the monitoring and evaluation tools we have developed.

In the meantime, we are actively seeking a local hire to assist us in periodically collecting these critical documents from the field. Having a dedicated local presence will significantly streamline our operations, providing us with real-time insights into the impact of our initiatives.

We are enthusiastic about these advancements and sincerely appreciate your ongoing support, which has been instrumental in driving this progress. Thank you for your unwavering commitment to our mission!

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Mar 3, 2024
Beginning the Needs Assessment Phase

By Rob Bollinger | Founder and President of Nehemiah's Restoration

Things continue to progress with the two new community groups we plan to partner with! We have now successfully completed the 'Discovery Phase' with each of the groups, where we spent time going over what resources they already have in their 'arsenal,' that can be used and leveraged to help them become even more successful as they support OVC. For example, one of the groups pointed out that they have a member of their committee who is trained in paralegal studies. We pointed out that this was a huge resource as the caregivers who support the OVC by taking them in, often don't know what the OVC's legal rights are or what their rights are as a caregiver. Now this group will be able to have legal trainings from this caregiver to better equip their caregivers.

Now that we know what kind of monetary, financial, and intangible resources these groups have, we are moving on to a 'Needs Assessment Phase,' during which we will be identifying what needs they have in each of the Seven Essential Services that we support groups in. The Seven Essential Services are areas that we, as Nehemiah's Restoration, deem crucial to a person's holistic wellness and when we work with a group, our goal is to ensure that each of the OVC that group supports receive some sort of support in all of these areas, to ensure that they are able to grow up to become successful, self-sustaining adults. The Seven Essential Services are Shelter & Care, Food & Nutrition, Economic Empowerment, Education, Psychosocial, Health & Well being, and Legal Support. For the next couple weeks, we will be developing a document that lists and prioritizes their needs in each of these areas so that we can better define how we will work with them in the future and how we can develop long term sustainability with these groups. During our trip in April, we will finalize these decisions with the groups and kick start our partnership!

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Nov 3, 2023
Discovery Phase Successful

By Rob Bollinger | Founder and President of Nehemiah's Restoration

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