Our Philosophy For Children and Youth Centers.
We seek to provide support and sustainable development in spiritual, social, and physical needs of displaced and underprivileged children. We seek to help the children and youth who are orphans to transcend the 'orphan' stigma by recreating a healthy viewpoint of self-worth. Our partnership with YODA Orphanage Center is a pilot program that provides care and foster services in Kibaha Tanzania. We also aspire to equip children and the youth now and in the future for their futures. Education, sound Biblical teaching, spiritual growth, and well-being of children and youth is our main focus in working with children centers.
Due to the fact that our operations are international; our services will not discriminate any religious adherence of any recipients; where applicable, we hold the discretion on how to consider religious, political and social implications as they relate to our centers and/or our partnerships. All our considerations will be governed by our vision, mission and operation philosophy as documented in our articles of incorporation.
Thanks to all supporters, volunteers and donors.
WELCOME TO YODA CENTER.
Due to the fact that our operations are international; our services will not discriminate any religious adherence of any recipients; where applicable, we hold the discretion on how to consider religious, political and social implications as they relate to our centers and/or our partnerships. All our considerations will be governed by our vision, mission and operation philosophy as documented in our articles of incorporation.
Thanks to all supporters, volunteers and donors.
WELCOME TO YODA CENTER.
THE GIFTED FACES AT THE YODA CENTER.Building a Movement. The inspiring story behind it.
Yoda Orphanage is named in memory of Yohana and Damaris Balisidya, who reached out to help children in their community. Children would come to their house from the surrounding area for food, help with school work, story telling, cooking and fun. It eventually attracted some youth in the community who needed help. Anna Balisidya is the daughter of the late Yohana and Damaris Balisidya. After retiring from her teaching career, she decided to further what her parents had started. She kindly opened her house as needed during the week and on Saturdays to help provide tuition and other necessities. However, after a while it was apparent her limited pension would not suffice. The FLIC - Yoda Center : Progressive Goals.
Create awareness of the needs. Seek any assistance and support for the project Overseeing the development of YODA center in relation to every aspect necessary for the future of the children and the youth. Plan and facilitate Tanzania missions Xperience to the center and other designated places. 2017-2020 Goal:
Capacity building for the center in the following areas; scale, reach, efficiency, and effectiveness. 2020 - 2025 Vision: Complete a community center that will facilitate education health, and recreation needs for the center and their foster families. |
Pending project.
Finish a multi-purpose classroom: The purpose of the classroom is to facilitate education, workshops, and fellowship. The class building will be constructed according to the required building codes and standards of a low-cost structure in Tanzania. The picture is an example of what we would like to achieve. 
The FLIC Partnership Impact:
Partnering with FLIC has enabled the process of establishing a foundation for capacity building and sustenance. The center has experienced growth of up to 48 children and youth combined who receive support for various needs. The FLIC Education Support has in the past helped some students further their education in to secondary and vocational schools. Our plan is to eventually oversee the development of YODA center in relation to survival, growth, development and education. It is also our philosophy to help recreate a renewed self-worth of the children from the 'orphan' stigma. We seek to build a center where the label of 'orphanage' will not exist. While there are many organizations doing great works in Africa and other parts of the world, the overall need for human support, sustenance and development is still enormous. The FLIC is part of the many organizations attempting to provide solutions for humanity. FACT: Every 15 seconds, another child becomes an orphan in Africa alone. According to an article from www.ipsnews.net; February 11, 2011 orphans in Tanzania were estimated at 2.4 million. It is important to note that the statistics presented are not static with time and pre-existing conditions. The fact presented here is reflective of the adverse conditions in a given year. Your Opportunity Menu. 1. Donation Ideas Monthly $25.00: Quarterly 3 months: $75.00 Semi Annually : $150.00: Annually: $300.00 (In kind donations accepted). 2. Planned Giving: Please email us: donations@theflic.org 3. Adopt a Child Donation plan 4. Voluntary Service/Ideas: to help us achieve our goals in our projects and operations. 5. Missions Xperience: Missionary work and technical expertise. |
Article:
Ending Institutionalisation of Children.
Childhood is a time when the seeds of a person's future health and wellbeing are sown. Ideally, it happens within a family setting that provides individualised care in a loving, safe, enriching, and happy environment. Sadly, more than 8 million vulnerable children worldwide do not have access to such care and grow up in large institutions or orphanages. Such environments share conditions that can be detrimental to children, such as depersonalisation—through lack of personal possessions, care relationships, or symbols of individuality—strict routines, group treatment, and isolation from wider society.
In a Review in today's Lancet, Ann Berens and Charles Nelson assess the developmental effects of early institutional care. They found that across countries, children in institutional care exhibit growth suppression (such as decreased weight, height, and head circumference), IQ deficits, and impaired brain, social-emotional, and psychological development in comparison with non-institutionalised children. The consequences for those experiencing deprivation during sensitive periods of neurodevelopment can be long term. However, evidence suggests that children removed from institutions to foster care or adoption in the first months or years of life can recover from these developmental setbacks.
How should countries care for children who have been abandoned, orphaned, or are unsafe at home? Foster-care programmes are part of the solution but they need to be well designed and of high quality to maintain the stability of placements. Unstable placements could be as detrimental to a child's future psychopathology as institutionalisation, according to a recent study by Kathryn Humphreys and colleagues in The Lancet Psychiatry. Small group homes for specialised or transitional care and responsible domestic and foreign adoption programmes might also be needed. However, in many countries these alternative strategies are rarely obvious or easily implemented and some are controversial. It is time to end institutionalisation, but countries need help to work out the best policies for their youngest citizens in need of protection
Article© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Volume 386, No. 9991, p312, 25 July 2015
In a Review in today's Lancet, Ann Berens and Charles Nelson assess the developmental effects of early institutional care. They found that across countries, children in institutional care exhibit growth suppression (such as decreased weight, height, and head circumference), IQ deficits, and impaired brain, social-emotional, and psychological development in comparison with non-institutionalised children. The consequences for those experiencing deprivation during sensitive periods of neurodevelopment can be long term. However, evidence suggests that children removed from institutions to foster care or adoption in the first months or years of life can recover from these developmental setbacks.
How should countries care for children who have been abandoned, orphaned, or are unsafe at home? Foster-care programmes are part of the solution but they need to be well designed and of high quality to maintain the stability of placements. Unstable placements could be as detrimental to a child's future psychopathology as institutionalisation, according to a recent study by Kathryn Humphreys and colleagues in The Lancet Psychiatry. Small group homes for specialised or transitional care and responsible domestic and foreign adoption programmes might also be needed. However, in many countries these alternative strategies are rarely obvious or easily implemented and some are controversial. It is time to end institutionalisation, but countries need help to work out the best policies for their youngest citizens in need of protection
Article© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Volume 386, No. 9991, p312, 25 July 2015
