The Thoughtful Path

This hub aims to deliver excellence in the early development of children aged 2 to 6 years old.

It will take a lead in providing education, training, and infrastructure support to people involved in ECD in order to guarantee a strong and healthy start for the youngest of Munsieville’s vulnerable children.

This hub aims to provide safe and secure support for school-age children, by allowing them universal access to tutoring, healthcare, and extra-curricular activities such as arts, drama and sports.

One of the biggest goals of this hub is setting aside space and time for children to complete homework, allowing them to gain maximum benefit from their school education.

This hub has been set up specifically for the teenage population, many of whom face an uncertain future affected by violence, rape, teen pregnancy and other issues.

This hub provides a much-needed safe-haven, giving health and educational support, offering counselling and career advice where needed, and linking into industry to allow the first steps towards employment.

This hub aims to promote all aspects of community cohesion through improving the social and physical environment, thereby creating a clean, safe place for children.

This hub’s diverse workstreams include tackling gender-based violence (GBV) and family planning/child spacing issues, as well as improving the infrastructure of the local community through economic development, and environmental awareness activities such as gardening.

This hub uses sport as a way to stimulate and encourage young people to work cohesively together and improve social relationships, as well as having fun.

With leadership development and team-building playing an integral part, this hub ensures that children have a safe, focused environment where they can engage in sport and learn about healthy living.

This hub is working on skills development and strategic development for Community-based Organisations (CBOs)

It aims to build programmes to assess capability, mentor and train the local community hub members and other CBOs, allowing them to learn and become proficient in providing an excellent service.

This hub is an extremely important hub for the safety and rights of children.

Through education and psycho-social support, vulnerable children will have a place to go to feel safe and secure.

This hub will also provide education on civility and socially-acceptable behaviour, and focus on advocating children’s rights, including birth registration and legal protection.

This building planned for late 2010 acts as a drop-in centre where children can come and access services, such as counselling or protection.

It provides additional educational resources and extra-curricular activities, and houses a small office for staff and space for the hub groups to meet.

The centre is staffed by local community members, with help from social services when required.

Project HOPE UK has established academic partnerships with East Tennessee University in the US, East Anglia University in the UK, and Pretoria University in South Africa.

These collaborations are vital to measure and refine the project in order to enable replication in other disadvantaged communities worldwide

One of the most innovative aspects of the Thoughtful Path: Munsieville project.

The House of Young Ambassadors is made up of 10-12 children aged 11-18, whose task is to review and challenge if needed the major decisions taken by the management board.

Not only will this develop the leaders of the future, but it will ensure the project is truly “thoughtful”, where the wishes and needs of the children are taken into account.