fws want to help boost whole communities through offering employment to as many locals, such as Mudi Salim [pictured], as possible. In keeping with fws ideals, which aim to ensure all of our children's villages are managed and staffed by local people, we aim to set up projects in a way that teaches local people skills and promotes their success in management. An Aussie management team will facilitate the building of the children's village, employing and relying on local builders and handymen, sourced from local villages.

It is paramount to the longevity of  fws projects that all local managers and staff receive on-the-job training via our education programmers at first, and later, via our e-learning training centre. Local staff to be trained will include management personnel, 8 live-in carers (house mums), teachers, and security guards, all sourced from surrounding villages. As staff members, these local people will be able to foster local culture for the children in the children's village and integrate the orphaned children into the local community. When necessary and appropriate, these staff members will be supported in their roles by international volunteers and continued online training.  fws aims for our children's villages to strengthen the communities into which they are welcomed and to promote not only academic education but also education about the environment, healthcare, social wellbeing and the future, for the children at the village and their neighbours.

Our local management staff will be guided to move towards self-sufficiency, working towards the goal of Kesho Leo being maintained by local people with  fws merely overseeing operations. This will enable us to empower generations of a community and to address our next children's village in another place of need.

Meet some of our local staff on the locals we work with page.