OrphanCare has completed its ninth consecutive quarterly fund distribution benefiting over 3,000 orphans from 80+ orphanages across the island.Despite the challenges of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the OrphanCare Trust continued to distribute funds while also increasing the number of beneficiaries, showcasing the growing interest on the initiative.
Trustee Sharad Amalean said, “In the backdrop of a challenging environment, we are indeed pleased to have been able to once again reward our OrphanCare beneficiaries with another disbursement of funds to their accounts. We are again grateful to our donors and well-wishers who continue to support our cause monetarily and qualitative care.”
OrphanCare has also identified and profiled orphans who have reached the age of 18 through a structured qualitative support process. Individual orphan profiling is done taking into consideration their educational levels, language skills and career aspirations and matching their needs with donors of individual and institutional capacity.
OrphanCare was set up as an independent trust with Amana Bank PLC as the founding sponsor to address an important yet mostly unattended need of orphan children. The Trust aims to secure the fate of orphans who reach the age of 18, at which age they are compelled to leave institutional care.
OrphanCare’s approach seeks to intervene in a vital and decisive aspect of their problem which is funding. To that end the OrphanCare Trust has been making periodic deposits into orphans’ accounts until they reach the age of 18, at which point the funds will become accessible to them.