100 Missionary Children

 

CFM is taking 100 missionary children into Wurin Alheri, to help their parents in their missions call to serve hundreds of thousands of others in frontline missions. CFM incurs the following costs in undertaking this commitment. Can you help? This is the church’s task.

See tables below. Set up and weekly costs for 100 missionary children. We calculated in UK£. In Australian $ the set-up costs to home and educate 100 missionary children at Wurin Alheri is AU$28,000. Thereafter, the weekly costs in housing and educating these 100 children is AU$3,000.

 

Item	Number needed	Unit cost (£)	Cost(£)	Notes
Bunk beds	30	66	1,980	Sleeps 60. 40 will sleep on mattresses on the floor as buildings won’t hold more bunks
mattresses	100	15	1,500	Inexpensive mattresses, but they don’t ever last long because of the climate and hard use
Bedsheets, pillow, blanket mosquito net	100	31	3,100	Malaria is endemic, mosquito nets help a bit. Plateau has cool nights, so a blanket is needed
Buckets, plates, spoons, water bottles etc	100	29	900	Children splash- bathe using a bucket to collect the bat water, and to wash their own clothes
Initial clothes, flip-flops, toiletries, cleaning products	100	22	2,200	Most children arrive without suitable clothes for the Plateau, which is colder than the rest of Nigeria
School textbooks, exercise books, pens etc	100	27	2,700	Children are way behind so all start in special classes to catch up what they have missed
School uniforms, school shoes, sports kit & trainers	100	39	3900	In context, school uniform is an important part of belonging, feeling part of the school
TOTAL			£16,280

 Then every week we will need: 

Item	Number needed	Unit cost £	Cost (£)	Notes
Food @ £0.65 per meal per child	100	13.44	1,344	Includes cooking fuel, also used to heat bath water
Toiletries, cleaning, replacing clothes outgrown/worn	100	2.00	200	Keeping the children and facilities clean and neat
Additional caregivers	5	20	100	Monthly salaries
Additional schoolteachers	4	20	80	Monthly salaries
Additional cooks	2	15	30	Monthly salaries
TOTAL			£1,754