Our History
Our rich history starts in 1974 when our founding member Mrs. Olive Hilda Miller (OBE, MBE, Cert. Hon., JP (Ret)) first established the National Council of Social Services (NCSS). Sixteen years later in 1990, the name changed to the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), and then again in 2020 to the National Children's Voluntary Organisation (NCVO) that we are known as today.
Mrs. Olive Miller first began the organisation for the purpose of meeting community needs that other service clubs did not meet at the time. Some of these needs were - a facility for children with special needs; public preschools; financial funding for welfare and handicapped people; counselling services; retirement homes; scholarship programs; and much more.
Mrs. Olive Miller
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Today, the NCVO focuses specifically on the needs of low-income families and their children who are in need of support as it relates to foster care and early childhood education. We do this through the Nadine Andreas Residential Foster Home programme and the Miss Nadine’s Preschool and Jack & Jill Nursery programme.
Currently, we house and care for 10 children at our 24/7 residential foster home, and 60 children between the ages of 3 months and 5 years are enrolled in our nursery and preschool. Our immediate aim is to raise the funds necessary for us to continue providing the best services and staff to these children - with the help of corporate donations, our supportive community, and our tireless volunteers.
Investing in early childhood education and foster care has multiple long-term payoffs, all of which benefit not just the children directly, but the community at large.
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