Programs

Life Skills

The Ageno curriculum is designed to equip students with life skills and help them learn to live more independently. The four areas targeted are:

Academic

Matching pictures, keeping score, measuring, reading and following a schedule, counting money and making change, telling time and following directions.

Communication

Expressing needs and wants, asking for help, making choices, maintaining eye contact, talking with peers and superiors.

Social Skills

Interacting with others, sharing, turn-taking, understanding the rules of a game, handling frustration, eating, and restroom etiquette

Physical Skills

Running, catching, throwing, rolling, using utensils, pouring, stirring, mixing, using the cooking stoves and cleaning up using a broom, wiping an area, folding, washing dishes, hanging up clothes, making a bed and fine motor skills

Mobility

We provide wheelchairs to children who need them to improve their quality of life by enhancing their mobility. In future, we hope to help parents improve accessibility for their children at home.

Parent Mentoring

We train and mentor parents, giving them information they need to help their children continue developing and using the life skills they learn at Ageno when the children are at home.

Community Engagement

One of our goals is to change the mindset of community members towards children with special needs. Changing community perceptions and equipping members of the community with information on how to respectfully interact with children with special needs will create a culture and environment in which children with special needs in the community are celebrated and not stigmatized or automatically excluded from participating in community activities.

Spiritual

How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

Romans 10:14-15

The Lord is sending us to, above everything else, share the good news with Ageno children, their families and their communities.

We gladly heed this call.