Love A Child Orphanage (LACO)
Location: : Roberts international Airport Highway, Monrovia
Date Founded: March 4, 1998
Directors: Albert and Rebecca Wreh
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| Founders |
Local Support: Sell water and handicrafts made by kids to raise support for home. Periodic support from people.
Needs:
b. Generator
c. Van
d. Medication
e. Food and clothing for kids
Legal: Incorporated with Ministry of Affairs, and accredited by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
Purpose for Starting
Orphanage: When Rebecca Wreh was 14 years old, growing up in Harper, Maryland
County, she saw a vision in which there was a big green field with lots of
children. As she watched them play, she heard a voice saying to her, "that is
your responsibility." When she came to herself, she explained what she saw to
her cousin. In 1978, she saw the same vision. While contemplating what to
do, the civil war that lasted fourteen (14) years broke out in the country.
During the civil war, she walked the streets and saw children who had lost parents, displaced
with no one to care for them, sleeping on sidewalks, market tables; she started
praying about what to do. Consequently, in March 1998, the Love A Child
Orphanage was started in an abandoned building at the Airfield shortcut,
Lapakze, Monrovia with twenty (20) kids. After a year, LACO relocated to the
Robertsport International Airport highway.
Current Number of
Children: Thirty seven (37) kids - thirty-five (35) girls, two (2) boys, with
ages ranging from seven (7) to eighteen (18). Two (2) of these kids are out of
high school, and one (1) in nursing college.
Recruitment: Kids are recommended by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, villagers and community leaders.
Facilities: Currently, there is one complete building in the orphanage compound that was built by an American (Brad Bradley) via Samaritan Purse. This building has nine (9) rooms - seven (7) are used for the kids with five (5) bunk beds each - the staff uses the remaining two (2). It has two (2) bathrooms, a kitchen, and living and dining rooms. A school building that will twelve (12) classrooms (nursery-high school), a mini library, laboratory, cafeteria, etc. is currently under construction. A make shift (zinc shark) is being used for school and church buildings.
The normal orphanage day: Kids are up at 5:00 AM and shower before devotion. Devotion is done with kids leading rotationally. After devotion is chores - kids are assigned duties rotationally. After chores is breakfast and kids are off to school. After school, kids do assigned routine work, and have dinner at 5:00 PM. At 8:00 PM is evening prayers, after which they retire to bed. Kids are required to partake in weekly church activities and Sunday divine service. The Church is called the Love A Child Orphanage Fellowship, Inc.
Recruitment: Kids are recommended by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, villagers and community leaders.
Facilities: Currently, there is one complete building in the orphanage compound that was built by an American (Brad Bradley) via Samaritan Purse. This building has nine (9) rooms - seven (7) are used for the kids with five (5) bunk beds each - the staff uses the remaining two (2). It has two (2) bathrooms, a kitchen, and living and dining rooms. A school building that will twelve (12) classrooms (nursery-high school), a mini library, laboratory, cafeteria, etc. is currently under construction. A make shift (zinc shark) is being used for school and church buildings.
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| Building |
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| Dormitory |
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| Children at dinner |
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| Bunk beds in dormitory |
The normal orphanage day: Kids are up at 5:00 AM and shower before devotion. Devotion is done with kids leading rotationally. After devotion is chores - kids are assigned duties rotationally. After chores is breakfast and kids are off to school. After school, kids do assigned routine work, and have dinner at 5:00 PM. At 8:00 PM is evening prayers, after which they retire to bed. Kids are required to partake in weekly church activities and Sunday divine service. The Church is called the Love A Child Orphanage Fellowship, Inc.
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| School art activity |
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| Typical meal at dinner |
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