The
intake capacity of the Orphanage has increased from Ten (10) in 2002 to
sixty-five (65) in 2010. The Orphanage has a means of transport that
facilitates movement and other activities in and outside the orphanage. The
long-term goal of Board of Trustees of Good Shepherd Orphanage to establish a
Basic School to train and cater for the orphanage Children and other Children
in and outside the Orphanage came to realization and on 8th August
2004, the School was officially opened. The School has an approximate
population of 400 pupils till date from nursery to J.S.S 2.The Orphanage has a
complete Computer Library for the training of the orphans in I.T literacy. It
also had constructed Borehole Water to cater for the Orphans Water needs. The
Orphanage has built a well equipped Kitchen and Dining Hall to cater for food
preparation and feeding for the Orphans and had also established Football
Academy to train orphans and other young people in the art of Football.
FUTURE PLANS OF THE ORPHANAGE
The
Good Shepherd Orphanage has plans to network with like-minded Individuals, Churches
and Organizations both locally and international to foster and protect the
cause and rights of poor and homeless children nationally and around the world.
It will also invest in and establish food crop farming to supplement the
nutritional needs of the Children at the Orphanage. It will also be the plan of
the Orphanage to establish an Orphanage Clinic or Hospital to take care and
handle health needs of the Orphanage Children as well as children and poor
people from the surrounding communities within the Orphanage catchment area. It
is also the plan of the Orphanage to establish a Vocational Training Center or
Institute to train the Orphans with hand-works and develop their human skills,
potentials and resources practically. It expects to expand its orphans Children’s
intake capacity to enable it take up new Orphan Children as much as possible
from time to time.