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Drop in centre still functioning

Oct 19, 2010 News

With an intake of more than 50 children, the “drop in centre” continues to provide the necessary services for which it was established. Over the years, the institution has provided a safe and secure shelter for children, who do not have homes which they can live comfortably in.
In most cases, these children do not have families who are willing to take care of them, because of conflicting issues arising in their homes.
Though these children are provided with care and counselling, they are all required to live by certain rules and regulations, just as if they were in their own paternal homes. However, the institution does not execute corporal punishment.
The facility, which has a full complement of staff, imparts a medium standard of development and a paramount level of comfort for the inmates. These children at the shelter are provided with food, clothing, and an education.
The children who are enrolled in schools are provided with uniforms, snacks and stationeries. Toys and other manipulated materials are also provided regularly to the children in their “home”.
Even though, these children are not in their biological homes, they are not lacking in the emotional and physical care that would have been expected to be administered onto them. They are occasionally entertained by way of field trips, sporting events and celebration of birth anniversaries.
These children remain at the home until 16 and are sometimes directed to jobs.
However, if a family wishes to retrieve a child before he or she attains the adult age, the Ministry investigates and work with that family to correct the deficiencies, which may have contributed to the child or children leaving their home.

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