The Problems the Rehabilitators Encounter in Educating Street Children.
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Date
1999-05
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
This 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.
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Rehabilitation, Street children, Education