PROJECTS | Kenya (WEAEP)| Mumias
Child Protection and Community Centre

ACTIVITIES

• Construct the Child Protection and Community Centre, which will consist of: counselling room, safe rooms where abused girls can be rehabilitated; a vocational training centre, community training facilities, dining room, washrooms, a classroom, kitchen, laundry room, store room and administration block. When complete, will provide protection and support to 500 children per year;
• Equip the Child Protection and Community Centre with furniture and training equipment;
• Equip vocational training centre with training equipment;
• Train selected community leaders on child rights and child protection.

TARGET GROUP & NEEDS
The programme targets orphans who are heads of households, living with disability, working and/or living with older people, street children and destitute young people. There are 800,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Western Kenya; most of these children do not have access to education, family care or emotional support and migrate to streets or move from place to place looking for work, food and shelter. These children are subject to harsh living conditions, growing up too fast and losing their childhood as well as access to both formal and informal education. Girls are particularly vulnerable as they are sexually exploited at an early age. Some children have lost property through property grabbing by relatives who leave them without any source of livelihood, which cause children to migrate to the street. 

The centre will facilitate access to basic rights and social protection directly to 500 children and young people, and indirectly to 4,200 children per year