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PROJECTS | Kenya | Street Children in Community Development
 
Liyavo Village Community Project | Birunda Village Community Project | Street Children in Community Development
 

When the International Childcare Trust first arrived in Western Kenya in 1992, Kitale was swarming with hundreds of street children aged from 4 upwards who survived by scavenging in the rubbish dumps, working casually, begging, and stealing. They simply slept in doorways and vacant lots. Being severely malnourished, ill clad and without shelter, they suffered from filth and hypothermia bringing serious and often fatal diseases. None attended school because they had no support and no daily food much less money for fees or uniforms.

Today, ICT runs Children's Centres that provide a well-balanced approach to re-integrating children back into society. The centres give the children the opportunity to:

  • Eat balanced meals each day and overcome problems of malnutrition.
  • Receive medical care and warm clothing. Use bathing, health and sleeping facilities.
  • Attend school or learn skills essential to their economic survival.
  • Wherever possible reunite with their parents or family.
  • Their right to childhood: play, laughter, and enjoying life.

ICT has been trying to build the capacity of ICT-Kenya, so that like all of the other ICT supported projects, ICT-Kenya does not need to maintain an ICT officer at the local level. ICT's current strategy is for the Kenya-based ICT officer to build the capacity of the local staff, so that he may withdraw within a year or two. ICT was able to obtain a grant from the EC in 1999, which would further develop ICT-Kenya's work. The EC grant has covered the development of ICT-Kenya's work at both centres

Children's Centre - Mealtime

Children's Centre - Cooking
 
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