COMPUTERIZED ORPHANAGE INFORMATION SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF ORPHANAGE HOME GUSAU, ZAMFARA STATE)

ABSTRACT An Information System (IS) is a discipline whose activities are developed to processing (capturing, transmitting storing, retrieving, manipulating, and displaying information.information system is implement within an organization for the purpose of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of that organization capabilities of the information system and characteristic of the organization, its work system its people and it development and implementation methodologies together determine the excellent to which that purpose is achieved. Therefore, orphanage information system is central to the management of orphanage institution they are particularly valuable where records of orphans and their transaction are needed to be kept for future use. They also offer flexibility in accessing and retrieving of information.Every research has predefined purpose or objective that is intended to be archived. In view of that fact, the primary objectives of this research are as follows: To study the existing record system in Gusau orphanage home. To identify the problem associated with orphan’s information. An orphan is a child that is permanently bereaved of their parents or who lost their both parents. In the common sense, an orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for him or her various group such as United nation program. The system was developed using HTML,PHP and Mysql.