It's always important to plan what you are trying to achieve, where you are going and how. Following are the aims we are working towards. Enable the Children's work is flexible to meet the different needs that arise with our families, so the plans are written so they are broad enough to meet those life happenings.

Aim 1. Sharing Jesus, changing lives.
Objectives:
-- To show Jesus' love and respect to the many people we come in contact with
-- To care for the often pushed aside disabled children and their families
-- To be honest, trustworthy, reliable professionals
-- To act justly, love mercy and walk humbly in our ways
-- To nurture our staff team by praying and supporting each other

Aim 2. To provide a community based rehabilitation service to children with disabilities and their families in Freetown and surrounding communities, Sierra Leone and to have good reputation among other medical services.
Objectives:
-- To get referrals of patients with longer term disabilities that cannot be treated in any other available facility in Sierra Leone
-- To assess, explain about and treat the disabled child in their own familiar environment
-- Focus on teaching the family how to treat and include daily the positions and treatment ideas as they will then have ongoing management of the child
-- To design and make appropriate postural and therapeutic equipment using local resources and working alongside local skilled craftsmen (carpenter, tailor, blacksmiths) to finally make and fit to the specific child
-- To teach family / carers to be safe and competent to regularly use the equipment given.
-- To increase community awareness of disability – what it is and how to promote development and independence, and what it is not (rejecting some cultural traditional beliefs)
-- To be known in the NGO and governmental medical and rehab services as a referral point and a resource to be referred back to.

Aim 3. To train national staff to continue the service as independently as possible.
Objectives:
-- Training of new assistant to become able to practice therapy concepts and work as an assistant with professionalism and understanding.
-- Widening therapy skills by introducing an Occupational Therapy focus to our team.
-- Improve competence of national staff to measure and design appropriate equipment.
-- On-going training of national staff in Management skills such as diary planning, finances, statistics and reporting.
-- Training on listening and supporting spiritually our children and their families.
-- Advising and revising with local craftsmen designs of locally made equipment.

Aim 4. To create opportunity for international trained therapists to work alongside national staff.
Objectives:
-- Identify new international staff with therapy qualifications to come for a minimum of 1 year.
-- To facilitate good induction into Sierra Leone culture, including language study, adequate accommodation and managerial support.
-- To ensure working alongside national staff to improve nationals professional capacity, project management, and scope of services offered.
-- To ensure mutual respect of nationals and internationals, and to not allow internationals to take over the project management (this is to be done by nationals).
-- To keep communication open at all times between staff members both in and out of Sierra Leone.

Aim 5. To increase awareness in the UK of the benefit of trained therapists working in developing countries alongside national staff.
Objectives:
-- To promote the usefulness of therapy skills in a developing world situation.
-- Partnership with other organisations / groups with similar vision.
-- To create training opportunities to teach interested therapists how to adjust their skills to a developing world situation.
-- To document learnt experiences to be passed on to others going on to the field.
-- Networking with other training institutions to promote developing world opportunities.