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The Residential Home provides care, protection and shelter to children aged from 5 to 16 years of age. The Home places great importance on the emotional and physical well-being, educational, social and developmental needs of the children, regardless of their racial, religious and social-economic background. To help restore the lives of these children the Home functions like a big family, striving to meet the needs of these children. It is our hope that by supporting these children with a good structure, and loving care givers, these children would be able to develop to their full potential and explore God’s special gifts in each of them.
Hence, the Home provides intervention for children and their parents who are often faced with multiple problems. It provides a comprehensive range of programmes
catering for the total development of the children. Several programmes such as life skills, group work, individual counseling are conducted for the children.
The Home encourages the children to spend their weekends with their families. Parenting workshops and family life education are some of the programmes run by the Home which aims at integrating the children back into their families and into the community.
In 2004 the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports provided funding for the Home to put up a new building and retrofit its premises in order that it could expand its services to take in children with special needs; those with mild intellectual disability.
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