It’s an interesting endeavour starting up a City Kidz, I’m finding. There’s so much to do in the planning stages. Such as, document signing, recruiting volunteers, writing a blog and a plethora of administrative type tasks. While I’m also still working on getting a location, I am currently attempting to locate a bus line in Ottawa that will give me a good rate (most preferably free) for transporting kids back and forth from the outreach when we start up in September.
While not really a “bus ministry” in the truest sense of the word, City Kidz Ministry mandates that all children be picked up and returned home after the Saturday program and we will be following suit here in Ottawa, as well.
One very good reason for using a bus is child safety, ensuring proper supervision from the time the children leave their parents’ home to the time they return. Another good reason that’s less obvious is to promote child attendance. Many families are single parent homes, or they are two parent families overburdened with life, where the challenges of transporting children to their various programs throughout the week present many financial hardships as well as emotional headaches. In these cases, while the parents may really support what we’re doing, it’s possible that they won’t be able to get their child to the program.
City Kidz is not just here for the children of Ottawa, we’re here for their families too. Busing the kids to City Kidz is not only intended to help the child by getting him or her to City Kidz, but it’s also intended to relieve some of the burden from an already overburdened Mom or Dad. I hope I can find one that has fair rates soon!
…And One For All!!
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