Our Home Of Peace
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Date
1998-06
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
Throughout the World, children are found living and working on city
streets. It is a dangerous and precarious existence. The reasons for their
presence vary, but all Share the common experience of fighting for their
everyday survival. Children may have decided that street life is preferable
to the poverty or violence at home. Others work on the sheet to earn
money and become drawn into street life.
And this is why, towards the end of 1993, a group of people got together
to form a Rehabilitation centre and they called it Kwetu, which in Swahili
means "Our Home". The founder is a priest known as Fr. Michael
Meuneir, who is very active in organising youth projects.
In 1994 Brother Peter told the Kwetu Board that no meaningful
rehabilitation of street children could take place unless we went
BOARDING. Presently the home is situated on the outskirts of Madaraka
Estate, a few Kilometres South of the city Centre. The home consists of
Buildings including, a temporary store, a house for the watchman, a Posh
mill, office for the director, offices for the social workers, the accountant,
the computer, a room for counselling, a hall, a kitchen, two dormitories
and bathrooms. A resident house for the sisters, and two workshops
where they offer a carpentry training for the older boys and an
empowerment training for the mothers.
The programme has a director, two social workers a bookkeeper, a cook,
3 house-fathers, a teacher, a driver, a watchman and volunteers.
The majority of children come from Nairobi west, South B and C,
Mugoya, Kibera, Wilson and Mukuni. The children admitted are usually
between the age of 8 and 18 years. They are identified through street
visits that are carried out regularly from the social workers, the street
workers and volunteers.
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Strect Children, Donors, Training and development