The Problems the Rehabilitators Encounter in Educating Street Children.

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dc.contributor.authorKarweru, Lucy
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-12T11:55:44Z
dc.date.available2019-02-12T11:55:44Z
dc.date.issued1999-05
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12342.1/582
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectRehabilitationen_US
dc.subjectStreet childrenen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.titleThe Problems the Rehabilitators Encounter in Educating Street Children.en_US
dc.title.alternativeA Case Study of Salesians of Don Bosco Home, Mary Immaculate Centre and Rescue Dada Centre.en_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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