Our Home Of Peace
| dc.contributor.author | Matiya, Richard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-06T06:51:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-06T06:51:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998-06 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/527 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Tangaza University College | en_US |
| dc.subject | Strect Children | en_US |
| dc.subject | Donors | en_US |
| dc.subject | Training and development | en_US |
| dc.title | Our Home Of Peace | en_US |