Jakin Children's Club

ABOUT JAKIN CHILDREN’S CLUB
Reforming young hearts!

JAKIN CHILDREN’S CLUB (JCC) is an initiative of Jakin N.G.O which was inaugurated March 13th 2010. JCC was carved out of a need to create a platform for orphans and vulnerable children within the SAMARITAN PLATFORM PROJECT (SPP) of Jakin to come together, interact and receive various reformative trainings.

Jakin N.G.O is registered as JAKINMINIS INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE i.e. an N.G.O allowed to trade. The organization founded by Mrs Olubukola Adebiyi was established on October 12th 2003 and it began operations on November 30th 2003 in Lagos State. It is a non governmental organization with an overall aim of mobilizing resources to solve some of the social ills in our society.
Samaritan Platform Project (SPP) is an initiative of JAKIN which kicked off in February, 2004. It was established to provide welfare to the needy. The essence of the project is to identify the challenges these needy people are facing, discover its root cause and improvise lasting ways of improving their physical, social and financial conditions. These people can be poor, unemployed, below a particular income level or in need of assistance due to circumstances beyond their immediate capacity. So far, SPP has reached out to over 8000 less privileged people including over 4,459 Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC).

As scientist George Washington Carver once said, “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong because someday in life you will have been all of these”.

Jakin Children’s Club (JCC) was established to bring together orphans and vulnerable children living out side the four walls of an orphanage or rehab. Considering the population of Lagos State and the extent of poverty in the nation, it is obvious that the available orphanages and rehabs can only accommodate a tiny fraction of such children. Within the seven years of operating, we have visited various orphanages and met numerous challenged individuals and families. We have realized from this experience that thousands of children on the streets or with there parents are actually living in worse conditions than their peers in structured orphanages and rehabs.

This is basically because of the poor living conditions and upbringing these children are exposed to as a result of the poverty levels of their biological parents. Many are results of rape or reckless lifestyles of teenagers while some started in proper homes but things went wrong immediately their parents faced unpredicted challenges such as broken marriages, sicknesses, loss of means of livelihood, death, natural or manmade disasters and lots more. Abandoned by relatives and driven by a sense of survival, these children are forced into various forms of unimaginable hardship.

OBJECTIVE
The objective of JAKIN CHILDREN’S CLUB (JCC) is to bring such children together at least once a`month`to interact and have a sense of belonging. They are able to receive various educative, reformative and transformative trainings in a well structured environment to help improve their quality of life. Through SPP, Jakin will continue to work with them and their care givers to provide them educational, psychosocial, nutritional, health and other welfare supports. It has an overall aim of reforming this young hearts.

AGE LIMITS
JCC is for children ranging from ages 0-<18yrs old. They are divided into 3 groups for proper monitoring. The groups are

a) Infant and Minor Group 0-4yrs and their Caregivers
b) Kids Group 5-11yrs
c) Teens Group 12-<18yrs
Within the first six months JCC already has a membership strength of almost 200 children and have held six meetings.

ACTIVITIES SO FAR
1) one`day`personal hygiene workshop for twenty –one children between the ages of 5 and 11 years

2) Street walk tagged “WALK TO FIND A STREET CHILD” , the essence of the walk was to locate, make friends and give gifts to street children that hawk, beg, wash windscreen, loiter etc in traffic around the Mainland local Government area. We made 68 new friends some of who are now members of JCC.

3) Malaria enlightenment workshop and “How to conquer evil imagination” re- orientation session for 21 children between 12-<18 years old.

4) “Mother and child nutrition” workshop and “how to dress your child” re-orientation session for 18 children between 0- 4 YEARS and 17 caregivers.

5) Children’s`day`party and tuberculosis enlightenment workshop for 34 children and 14 caregivers.

6) Epilepsy enlightenment workshop and good manners interactive session for 31 children between the ages of 5 – 11yrs.

7) HIV/AIDS Awareness Workshop and “Peer Pressure” re- orientation session for 31 children between 12-<18yrs old.

8) Immunization workshop for children between 0-4yrs and their caregivers.

9) “DRESS A CHILD FOR SCHOOL PROJECT” which provided basic school items for 200 children within Iwaya and Makoko communities for a new academic session.



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