RESTORE HUMANITY INC
One Planet, One People, One Purpose
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James Christopher Opot (JCO) Children's Home
The James Christopher Opot (JCO) Children’s Home is an orphanage which was co-founded by Juanita Opot and Sarah Fennel in Siaya County Kenya. The JCO is Restore Humanity’s principal program and is animated by an appreciation for the difference between mere survival and the heights of human flourishing. All of Restore Humanity’s other programs have emerged from our many efforts to improve the JCO’s efficacy and advance its mission.
The entirety of our JCO staff (caregivers, tutors, security staff, etc.) are from the same community in which they serve and there’s been very little turnover since we opened in 2010. By maintaining this continuity, our children develop a sense of safety and stability despite the chaos and trauma they’ve experienced. However, as well-trained and attentive as our staff is, the children themselves end up becoming the most potent source of their own improvement. Being small in number and naturally empathetic toward one another’s shared experiences, the JCO children have developed a culture of compassion and solidarity.
Currently the JCO is home for up to 20 orphans who remain in our care until the completion of their high school education. We purposefully maintain an optimal ratio of caregivers-to-kids so as to provide exceptional holistic care in a familial environment. This allows our children to develop into healthy, productive, and empathetic leaders. With enough proper education and support our kiddos will pursue their own ambitions, and in so doing, become agents of positive change in their community and in our world. The goal is to maximize their potential, to help them develop into the best versions of themselves. Upon graduation from high school, some of them will enter our JCO Graduate Program, in which applicable skills are honed in a vocational or technical school. Others, who demonstrate high levels of interest and aptitude will enter our Restore Humanity Scholars Program, which pays for a four-year college degree.
Restore Humanity (RH) Scholars Program
What’s the purpose of this program?
● To give bright young minds from rural and impoverished areas of Kenya an opportunity to receive a university education
● To nurture and cultivate the talent and abilities of our scholars to create a better future for them and their community
● To enlist our scholars’ passions and abilities in collaborative efforts to make our various projects in Kenya more effective
● To promote altruism, compassion, and understanding
JCO Graduate Program
The selection process is a natural extension of our principal project, the JCO Children’s Home (our orphanage). Once our kiddos complete their high school education they leave our charge and enter adulthood seeking to find their way in the world. Some of them will join our JCO Graduate Program, in which we help them to pursue a marketable skill through a vocational program or technical school. However, our kiddos who demonstrate high academic achievement and have intellectual interests or passions that are best pursued at a university are granted a Restore Humanity (RH) Scholarship.
Community Outreach Program(s)
Our Community Outreach in Sirembe involves a variety of separate projects. We fund secondary school partial and full scholarships every year for students in need. We provide reusable Maxi-Pads (AFRI-Pads) for all of the girls attending Sirembe Secondary School. We have an Early Childhood Development (ECD) Center wherein 30+ students get pre-primary education. We have helped the local primary and secondary schools with infrastructure building and we helped the local clinic build a maternity ward.
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RESTORE HUMANITY INC
Board of directorsas of 09/17/2019