Future Plans

We are now actively fundraising for a new building to house metal and wood workshops and a sewing room, with staff quarters on the first floor.

At present, in very cramped conditions, Ali and his staff make most of our furniture.  They also make corrective devices for children suffering from cerebral palsy.  These are used in the home;  they are also  lent or sold to families on the island.  They also weld metal items such as the grilles on the windows of the new building.

Any boy who has spent three years in the school, but is not suited to mainstream further education, is offered training in wood work and metal work.  In the same way, girls are offered training in dressmaking and tailoring.

This new building will therefore provide accommodation for essential work in the home and training for the disabled students.

• a more adult form of community accommodation for children at the home who have become adults but are still unable to cope with life in the wider world.

A key aim is to acquire some adjacent land on which to build a clinic with a small operating theatre. Rather than submit children and their parents to a night on the ferry to Dhaka, and a week in hospital in the city, the surgeon has agreed to operate on cleft lips and palates in our clinic.   We would also plan to recruit medical staff to handle health problems and post-operative care.