Dear Editor,
Set it up as an NGO, which means it has to run like a business, but it is not a business, so it does not pay taxes. We do not need a business licence only a Chamber of Commerce notarial deed setup. Aim to start it from early to mid-April 2016. It caters to children born from 2009 in St. Maarten, who only have a birth certificate and not necessarily the Dutch nationality.
The main reason or prime source of existence for this home is to take underprivileged children in home care. I am not talking about handicapped children, they must be underprivileged children who are born “normal” or has a mild to moderate developmental delay. These children will be taken care of as if the people working at the home are their parents. So they have to be clothed, given regular meals, must be taken or sent to primary school, etc.
If the Government of St. Maarten does not have enough money to send these children to at least primary/elementary school, the foster home employees will have to educate them to a standard of 6th grade elementary school.
How will the foster home be funded? By various means. Key: start small, grow big. By various means:
1. Yearly or monthly St. Maarten government subsidy. (financial)
2. Donations by supermarkets. (food and goods)
3. Donations by large clothes stores. (clothing and toys)
4. Private donations. (financial, food, goods)
5. International donations whether financial or goods.
The foster home should be nondenominational but one can use Bible stories to teach the children the basic principles about Jesus Christ and his love through the Holy Bible.
Age range: the child must be between three months and 17 years old (three months because it takes more or less three months to get a child legalized or it can be determined by politics).
Between ages 14 and 17 the child must be taught a skill, e.g.: hairdressing, plumbing, mechanic, carpenter, masonry, driving skills, photography/journalism, etc.
The Government of St. Maarten must pay the person with these skills to teach the teenagers from the foster home (this must be part of the constitution, to be changed by two-thirds majority in Parliament only).
What happens to babies born in the foster home? This is politics (family planning should be important after age 10 to 11 years. After age 17 this child or these children should have enough skills to start their own business (politics should determine microfinancing).
Arrindell’s Medical Center N.V. and assets is willing to go in business/NGO set up with whoever is willing to help these underprivileged children born in St. Maarten.
Dr. Angelica Arrindell-Villous
