Your goals may include

• Keep kids off the street
• Motivate street kids to return to school
• Promote literacy (in their own language, or in the language of the place where the kid lives now)
• Support kids through difficult times (kids in refugee camps, kids recovering from cancer, kids in hospital)
• Give youth better control over their lives (support formal and informal education, as in serving members of youth and sport clubs. Help them develop a good self esteem.)
• Reduce youth violence, bullying, drug abuse, racism, criminality

Pre-feasibility means "permission to dream" - without worrying too much about whether your dreams are possible to realize. It is a broad approach.

The purpose of this pre-feasibility study is to outline and document your dream. Finding out what it will take to realize your dream will be done in a separate step, called the feasibility study. "Feasibility" simply means "can it be done?", or "is it practical?"

The answers to the questions in the pre-feasibility study template will be used by the subsequent KHouse feasibility study team. They will rely on the pre-study information to make sure they fully understand the situation, your dream, audiences, options, constraints, and challenges. Invest in a pre-feasibility study to play it safe.

Who can do this?

The pre-feasibility team must have members with profound knowledge of the local area, including knowledge of local language(s). Most of the work may be done by locals, like staff at a prospective partner organizations, or others interested in having a KHouse in the area.

Kidlink Institute/Education must be brought into the pre-feasibility phase. While much may be learned by our web, and agreed over the phone or by email, it is imperative to meet senior representatives of the organization assumed to play such an important support role in the coming years. Purposes include making the personal connections that help sustain cooperation across distances; clarification of roles and division of labor; access to undocumented Kidlink experiences.

Next page: Pre-feasibility study template | Contact Odd de Presno for more information.