Jeanette's Mission

  I started last fall, and finished last week. I’ve visited all 10 of our VOH centers, most of them for a full week in each and conducted in-depth reviews and audits. As part of it, I: Conducted  10 ground site inspections of the grounds, for their safety, cleanliness and appearance Held  82 1-1 interviews with program leaders, including school Heads, health clinic nurses, feeding program leads, discipleship pastors, child safeguarding officers, special program leads such as the Save-a-Life center or the Champions' Club for disabled children, VOH administrator and directors and more! I even had a sit down with the chair of every the local board for every center! Led 42 focus groups with 392 children , separated by age and gender to get their perspective on things, and Oversaw 97 Functional Literacy Assessment Tests (FLAT) a UN tool to score the levels of functional literacy for children 11-12 years old. Lastly, I reviewed and spot-checked hundreds of chi...

  I love telling you in my updates about VOH programs and how they are impacting the lives of the children! But I thought this month I'd share with you a bit about what I’ve been doing with VOH leadership, making new plans and dreaming new dreams - to make sure we will be around to help children for years to come! That's what we did recently! The VOH leadership team including the Executive Director, his wife (the Director of Development, the 7 National Directors (who lead the 10 centers) and yours truly met recently to plan and dream together. It was a long time coming! It was the first time we were able to meet in person since COVID. It was my first leadership team meeting. I was so impressed by the amazing spirit of comradery and determination. It was obvious to me that the group of them have had been through many joys, trials and successes together. And it was obvious we shared the same heart - to serve God and care for the children. The focus was to plan and strategize tog...