Internship Conclusion

For my remaining hours, Professor Dougherty asked that I blog about a business I wished to start. Over spring break this year, I traveled to Brazil with some of Villanova's singing groups. While there one of our service projects was going to an orphanage to help take care of and play with the children there. I was assigned to work with the 1 yr and younger group. Seeing how many children were there and how understaffed the orphanage was really got to me. Ever since then I've been working out in my head plans for starting an orphanage. I haven't conducted nearly enough research yet, but some important questions came up while i was there and since I've been back. The two most prominent are where does the money for an orphanage come from? and how are the children educated? From what I have seen and heard it seems that the biggest problem for many orphanages is economic. Furthermore, there are always stories that one hears about many orphaned children who slip through the cracks, are never given a proper home, a good education, or the necessary support to succeed in live.

My goal is to one day join an orphanage and a boarding school. After getting experience working for and/or with boarding schools and orphanages I believe that I will have a better idea of how to go about accomplishing this. From my initial wonderings it seems that finding a boarding school that is will to participate would be the best place to start. Though I'm not quite sure how to get to the finish line as of yet. My end goal is to have an orphange that could take care of children from birth through high school and finish with helping to get them into colleges and apply for scholarships. Connected to the orphanage would be a private boarding school (K-12) where the children would move once they entered elementary school and stay through high school. This way they could get the quality attention and education that they would not normally get. I am also hoping that by connecting the orphanage to the boarding school that would help solve the issue of not enough money being available to support the children.

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