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Item A Study on Former Child Combatants in Sierra Leone: Assessment of the Problem; Rehabilitation Strategies; Pastoral Ministry.(Tangaza University College, 2002-02) Cosgrove, Johnlike many developing nations. due to its poverty and economic structures. Sierra Leone has had its share of street children who would beg on the streets from expatriates and wealthy Sierra Leoneans. In the mid-90s. while working in Sierra Leone. 1 was pestered by street kids in Freetown to the same degree that I experience the street kids during my visits to Nairobi If the number of kids approaching for a hand-out is a reliable indication of a country's street child population then I would propose that Freetown. in the mid-90s, had as high an incidence of street children as Nairobi does today. The Salesians began work with street children in the late 90s and presently have about 200 children in their care. Many of these children now live on the streets as a direct result of the increased fighting in the last five years. The idea for this paper arose from a combination of factors: during my pastoral practice in Sierra Leone from 1995 anti: 1998 1 met mans of these voting soldiers at road blocks. in the market, and even at our gate as they begged us 1hr food or soap. Anyone could realize that. in spite of the gun and military garb. these soldiers were still very much children: the media has also presented to the world the plight of child combatants ratherItem Using Print Media in Rehabilitation of Women Prisoners in Lang'ata Prison(Tangaza University College, 2007) Chilupula, StellaThis study focuses on the inmates of Lang'ata Women Prison which was established in 1954, in colonial time, with a special concern for the rehabilitation of women from within Nairobi as well as other places in Kenya. It is the only maximum security prison for women serious offenders and capital convicts in Kenya. After independence in 1963, the Prison Ordinance was established which contained rules on how to help offenders reform. The structures to categorize inmates, earnings schemes, compulsory supervision, extramural penal employment, and correction youth training centre, as well as pilot schemes, were enacted in different parts of Kenya. Apart from training, prisoners are supposed to receive counseling in order to get rehabilited so as to return back integrated into society, ensuring safe custody.Item The Problems the Rehabilitators Encounter in Educating Street Children.(Tangaza University College, 1999-05) Karweru, LucyThis research was conducted to find out problems encountered by rehabilitators in the process of educating street children. To facilitate this Dada center, Mary Immaculate center and Salesians of Don Bosco home have been taken as the case study. The purpose of this study was to identify the problem which the rehabilitators encounter while educating children who have been to the street. The head teachers are hesitant to admit street children in their schools. The rehabilitation centers do not have financial problem because they rely on donations from overseas. Therefore the objectives were: to identify problems rehabilitators encounter as they rehabilitate street children through education, to establish whether head-teachers accept to admit street children in their schools, to identify the problems which inhibit their learning process. To find out if the street children have difficulties in relating with other people especially in the ordinary school set up whereby they need to interact with teachers and pupils. Also to investigate if the service offered in the rehabilitation centre help the street children to recuperate what they have been denied by their families and the society. In order to achieve this objective, the following research questions were used. Do rehabilitators experience problems in educating children who have been to the street ? Do rehabilitators have financial problems in running this rehabilitation centre ?Do street children experience difficulties in relating with other children ? Does the environment in the centre help them to feel loved and appreciated in the society ? The study used the following instruments to collect the data. That is, questionnaire, observation skill and interview The findings were: that the rehabilitators encounter problems while trying to look for schools to fix street children . The head teachers are hesitant to accept street children in their schools because they are afraid that they are drug addicts and they will influence other pupils. The street children have potential to learn even though they have affective past memories. From the findings the following conclusions were made that children go to the streets because of poverty, domestic problem and orphans from AIDS victim parents. Rehabilitation centres serve as places where these traumatized children are helped to heal the wounds through bandages of Love. The traumatic experience affect the learning process of children who have been in the streets. The research recommends the following: recreation activities to be promoted in the rehabilitation centres in order to enhance rehabilitation process. The Kenyan society to be involved in both offering services to the rehabilitation centres as well as contributing finance to maintain the centres. The society to sensitized on the root cause of street children so that this menace can be eradicated. Rehabilitation centres to join together and construct a primary school for children who have been to the streets, so that the problem of lacking schools for admission can be solved.