{"id":1289,"date":"2012-08-14T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T19:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2012-08-14T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T19:59:52","slug":"our-prayers-planning-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"Our Prayers & Planning for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 Goals\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

God has told us to invest in deeper ways with our staff and ministry partners & to strengthen the quality of the services and support we are giving to the children we are impacting. We are not doing more this year, we are going to do it better. We are praying to have a more significant impact in the places we are investing. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Montessori Christian School <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Parent Feedback Form to be designed<\/p>\n

Parent Volunteer Hours (Projected 2,000 hours):<\/p>\n

Parent Meetings (Projected 9):<\/p>\n

Parent Workshop in Chichewa<\/p>\n

Two Special Trainings\/Celebrations for Parents: \u00a0<\/p>\n

School Expansions (Projected Adding 17):<\/p>\n

Adding teacher for Paw Paw- Hilda\u2019s partner<\/p>\n

Partnership with Blantyre Baptist (Looking at September)<\/p>\n

Teacher Hired for 6 & 7 & 8 (Waiting)<\/p>\n

Addition of Montessori Credentialed Christian Teacher from U.S. (praying)<\/p>\n

School Registered with Dept Ed. by June<\/p>\n

Malawian Curriculum Blend Documented & Implemented with Montessori<\/p>\n

School (Paw Paw) Registered w\/ Social Services: \u00a0<\/p>\n

10 Students Earn Bibles at our school (20 scripture memorized):<\/p>\n

Begin to provide nutritious snack\/meal by May<\/p>\n

Special field trips for each class- June<\/p>\n

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Teacher Training Center<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Internship Program<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

30 Interns Participating<\/p>\n

Projected 80% of Interns Rate 3 or better on Feedback Form<\/p>\n

Special refresher course for CBCCS<\/p>\n

Material Making Course for CBCCS<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Diploma Program<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

17 paying clients, 2 Partial Scholarship, 1 Scholarship:\u00a0<\/p>\n

4 Teachers graduate April 2012; 5 graduate in September 2012:<\/p>\n

Two visiting professors to assist with Diploma instruction<\/p>\n

MTTC\u00a0 begins accreditation process in July\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Partnership formed with Malawian University Teacher Training Department<\/p>\n

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Two Leadership & Montessori Teacher Trainings<\/span><\/em> (July\/Dec.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a070 Participants<\/p>\n

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Montessori Consulting Program <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Designed by September<\/p>\n

Implemented (3 requests):<\/p>\n

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Africa ABC Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CBCCS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Projected 25 teachers at 5 centers receive instruction in teaching strategy:<\/p>\n

Projected 25 teachers at 5 centers receive instruction in material making:<\/p>\n

Projected 300 children at 5 centers receive educational support weekly:<\/p>\n

Projected 4 centers receive educational artwork, furniture & materials:<\/p>\n

Two progress review meetings with CBCC Directors 80% attendance:<\/p>\n

Creation and implementation of simple assessment tool<\/p>\n

Provide material development workshop for 25 cbccs teachers:<\/p>\n

New staff member<\/p>\n

300 Children reached weekly<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Children\u2019s Bible Outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n

Projected 20 teachers at 6 centers received Biblical Training:<\/p>\n

Two Bible Outreaches: Ndirande (April & December 2012)<\/p>\n

10 children have learned 15 Bible passages and earned children\u2019s Bibles:<\/p>\n

40% of children at CBCCs memorizing scripture<\/p>\n

Provide Bible material design workshop for 6 Center teachers:<\/p>\n

Special Needs Outreach to 50 families in December<\/p>\n

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Hospital Outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n

Provide spiritual support for children & guardians in 7 wards at QECH four days a week (30 hours):<\/p>\n

On average praying over on average 20 children four times a week per day:<\/p>\n

Addition of Guardian Parenting & Prayer session once a week 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Addition of Evangelism and Christian Equipping session once a week 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

Supporting 5 pediatric nursing assistants that provide educational play to children with prayer with Bible materials:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Special Needs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Provide Assessment and therapy plans for 15 new children with special physical needs in Ndirande:<\/p>\n

Provide on-going therapy and support for 27 original families (40 total both centers):<\/p>\n

Provide Christmas outreach and gifts of love to 50 children and families:<\/p>\n

Provide 4 parent leaders with training via videos & Joyce Kasambe or other OT:<\/p>\n

Home visits 2xs a month<\/p>\n

20 parents attend therapy review course<\/p>\n

Consulting provided by professionally trained O.T.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Street Kids \u2013 Child Empowerment (We work in partnership to support the children.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working with City Pentecostal Church in Blantyre on special projects<\/p>\n

STEKA K10,000 monthly for kids<\/p>\n

Special Easter Outreach to Samaritans Trust<\/p>\n

Support to STEKA with application and contracts<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zikomo Yesu Enterprises <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Continued sustainability of ministry<\/p>\n

Savings for payroll taxes and pension<\/p>\n

Savings for land purchase<\/p>\n

Land purchase<\/p>\n

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Ministry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sustainability by IGAs<\/p>\n

Addition of 2-3 Staff Members<\/p>\n

Purchase of Copiers & Toners<\/p>\n

Donation of Lightweight\/Superpowered Laptop<\/p>\n

Our staff is rapidly learning computer skills<\/p>\n

James Machila U.S. Sponsorship Completes 2nd<\/sup> Year in BA Program<\/p>\n

Paul Nyirenda\u00a0 U.S. Sponsorship Completes 6 months Community & Rural Development degree<\/p>\n

Tisungane Howa earns a Diploma in Montessori Early Childhood Education<\/p>\n

Jane Kabambe earns a Diploma in Montessori Early Childhood Education<\/p>\n

Hilda Mandota earns a Diploma in Montessori Early Childhood Education<\/p>\n

Jane Jamu begins Diploma Program- September 2012<\/p>\n

Social Welfare formally recognizes our work our work in service to the children of Malawi<\/p>\n

Department of Education formally recognizes our work in service to the children of Malawi<\/p>\n

Campus turns True North to serve the children again in entirety. A true change.<\/p>\n

Guthrie Bible College: Staff attends towards completion<\/p>\n

Jeff Kreiser visits us and encourages us<\/p>\n

250,000 in account in U.S. for land purchase<\/p>\n

Self Evaluation & Supervision of Staff 11 months, 1x a month:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2012 Goals\u00a0 God has told us to invest in deeper ways with our staff and ministry partners & to strengthen the quality of the services and support we are giving to the children we are impacting. We are not doing more this year, we are going to do it better. We are praying to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}