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FRIENDS OF CHILDREN

~ To share love & give hope

Friends of Children seeks to provide support and transition care to children
(7 – 13 years old) whose parents are serving jail sentence. Children in particular are at risk when one or both of their parents are incarcerated. The anxieties of being separated from their parents and the shame of being rejected by their peers do make a serious impact on the child’s otherwise normal development.

These children require strong support and guidance to live without prejudice
and contempt. As such, during the transition care, the children under our programme, are taken care of in areas such as emotional, social, physical, financial and educational.

Mission

To provide Care and Support for children between 7 – 13 years old during the absence of their parent(s) who are incarcerated.

Target Clients:

~	Children between 7 – 13 years old
~	At least one parent is incarcerated/imprisoned
~	Spouse and other care-givers in the family
~	Priority – children from the low income group
~	ALL ethnic groups
~	NO service boundary (ie. Island-wide)

Program:

~	Emotional/Psychological - Counselling and Guidance Programme
~	Social - Activities, Befriending and Visitation
~	Physical - Monthly Food Ration and Birthday Gift
~	Financial - Social Assistance Scheme, Referral of employment for Caregiver, LCSS’ bursary, and School Pocket Money Funding
~	Educational - Academic Guidance, Referral to agencies and schools for educational and learning support and assistance.

Volunteers Requirement

Befrienders to
~	commit minimum 6 to 8 hours monthly for a period of One year.
~	provide academic support (eg. reading, spelling, etc) at Primary School level and play the role of a mentor to the child

Ad-hoc Volunteers as
1.	FOC Event Committee - organize activities (during school holidays) for the children
2.	Fund Raisers - raise fund for kids’ bursaries, food rations,outings and program overhead
3.	Website designing and maintaining
4.	Professional Counselor to conduct counseling to children with behavioral and emotional issues
5.	FOY (“Friends of Youth”….youth at risk group) Event Committee~organize/ facilitate activities

Success Stories To date, LCSS has reached out to more than 100 children from 60 over families. The programme has made a vast difference in their lives as several of these children initial outlook was one of hopelessness. Now, it has given them a new sense of confidence through the care and support given by the programme. Please go to “Success Stories” to read about some case study on how lives have been touched thru this FOC program.

The Reward As you come forward to help in any form, that perhaps one day one of our client(s) might meet you on the street and say : “for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.”

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