A blogger: The [Be in Oman] Blog did an interview and published an article that I would like for some of you to check out.
http://www.beinoman.com/2008/07/you-care-creative-learning-center.html
The stigma of a mentally/physically impaired person is discussed as well as the issues with private vs. public schools for these kinds of students. This particular school is having troubles financially, mostly because this lovely woman in the video has a heart of gold...too bad that doesn't translate to the pocketbook.
Maybe someone reading this can help.
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4 comments:
Hi,
Thanks for spreading the word, Amber.
It is important that people watch that video and see how they can help this poor and loving woman. She does it out of pure heart and nobody seems to care.
I wish you all go have a look at what I am talking about and try in any way to help her out.
Thank you :)
My wife is part of a group that's been trying to help this school. Unfortunately it is very difficult because the school itself isn't registered as a non-profit organization and hence many companies' corporate social responsibility charters forbid them from supporting it.
Muscati, very interesting. How does one go about becoming a non-profit organization in Oman? In the US it is difficult and takes a lot of time and knowledge to get to be a 501c3. Do you think that perhaps the school doesn't know how to do this? Once a school is registered as non-profit what kind of complications can be expected...example - will they have to regulate things according to the government and not their own conscience?
So, is your wife part of a group or company? What is the difference? Maybe if someone like me just took up a collection of supplies then the general members could help individually and not part of a group. Just a thought.
Thanks for sharing - it opened up more questions though...yikes!
It's not easy to register as a non-profit in Oman either. When we registered the Environment Society of Oman it took us three years to get the official approval. There's been a change in the Ministry of Social Development and NGO approval isn't as hard as before, but still difficult. The problem in this particular case is that when the people behind this school saw that it was too difficult to get NGO approval, they decided to register as a regular school. Now it's even more difficult to become an NGO.
The amount of funding they need is massive. It's not just supplies and materials. It is mostly salaries for the experts who teach in the school. The cost per child is very high.
What they're doing now is setting up a scholarship system where companies and individuals can sponsor an individual child and the disbursal of the funds is controlled by a well known accounting firm. I'm not sure that will work either though.
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