Tembari Children Care

Submitted by: Rishabh Bhandari

THE Tembari Children’s Care (TCC) Inc is a day care facility at ATS Oro Settlement, 7-Mile, outside of Port Moresby, PNG. To date, it takes care of more than 200 former street children – orphans, abandoned and the unfortunate – by serving them meals twice a day, and providing them early education. Assistance – food and money – is sent by supporters who find merit in the services we provide to these children. At The Center, they are family. For all of these, we need support that is sustainable.

The seeds of TCC first were planted in 2003 when Rishabh Bhandari, then a middle-school student at Murray International in Port Moresby, heard two NGO workers, Penny and Hayward, speak about the plight of so many children in Port Moresby. Initially TCC was an informal organization that raised money for the most unfortunate and vulnerable children in Port Moresby; typically these children were orphans or abandoned. As their fundraising efforts and passion for the children grew, Rishabh, Penny, and Hayward were able to recruit other volunteers to join their efforts as a result TCC began serving more and more children with better quality and with increasing frequency. In May 2008, the Tembari Children s Care In. was formally incorporated essentially meaning the formation of TCC as its own legal and formalized entity.

Now termed an active local community-based organization (CBO), TCC is based in Port Moresby. The organization was formed to improve the living standards of vulnerable children, and to facilitate this goal we aspire to establish and maintain community learning centers (CLCs) in the more rural outskirts of Port Moresby. These CLCs can teach community leaders about education and awareness programs that will foster the development and welfare of the community s orphans.

It is also the vision of TCC to seek and procure external assistance and resources from donors, governments, and individuals to support the program and the children it seeks to help.

Although neither the following video nor its creator, the philosopher Peter Singer, are affiliated with TCC, the video s message and argument is one that strongly resonates with the TCC family and one we hope you will find equally compelling:

Peter Singer Life you can save video

Achievements of Tambari Children Care

Our Achievements – we have come a long way and still have a long way to go

We are very proud of what we have achieved since we opened in 2003. There are 183 children associated with the TCC as of when this page was written, and the number is growing! 83 children are attending local schools, where we pay for their school fees, and 100 pre-schoolers are having regular lessons forming the crucial foundation for their future education. 5 pre-schoolers have graduated from our pre-school and are now in grades 5 and 6.

We are also well on our way in completing our latest project: a 60 sq. metre building that will act as a multi-purpose hall/classroom. The project will cost K50,000 (US $22,500) and will be our major fundraising focus for 2012.

We have also taken steps to create a clean and hygienic environment for the children at TCC by building a toilet and installing water tanks for a clean and reliable water supply. We have also arranged for the centre to receive regular electricity. These amenities, considered rudimentary in much of the developed world, are necessary for every human to live an empowered and dignified life.

Our Sustainability Project has also been a success. By financing people from local communities to undertake different vocations, we are helping empower them to become community leaders, take care of their family s needs, contribute a small portion of their income to the TCC children, as well as impart vocational training and expertise to some of the older TCC children.

Yet despite all we have done so far, there is much need for continuity and further expansion of our projects in order to help even more children in Papua New Guinea

Tembari Projects

Improving Childrens lives and education.

At Tembari Children Care, we aim to offer the best possible care for our 183 children. This includes basic necessities such as shelter, 2 meals a day, health care, education, and a sense of belonging. With these objectives, we particularly emphasize the need for each child to receive the best possible education.

We have had recent success with the start of our Saturday tutoring program.

The centre focuses its efforts on education, partly because sophisticated pedagogy is a major step in helping people become good and productive members of a society.

To better our children s education, we currently have 83 children attending schools with the fees being paid by the orphanage. There are also 100 pre-school children who receive classes in our 2 make-shift classrooms. Our 3rd classroom is currently sheltered by a mango tree clearly not a tenable solution when it rains. We are striving to build a 60m2 multi-purpose hall which will double as a classroom. The hall will cost approximately K50,000 (US $22,500

About the Author: Tembari Children s Care IncOro Village, 7 MileP. O. Box 67, GerehuNational Capital DistrictPerson : Mr. Rishabh Bhandari Website :

tembari-children.org

tembari@gmail.comPhone : (675) 7261 9552

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