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Families across Kenya, and particularly in the capital city of Nairobi, face daily battles against poverty, natural disasters, HIV/AIDS and crime. Nearly one-quarter of the population in Kenya survives on less than $1 a day. In some areas, one-quarter of all children are acutely malnourished. Tens of thousands of children are forced to live on the streets after losing their parents to AIDS or running away from abusive homes. Often, these children turn to prostitution to support themselves. An estimated 10,000 to 30,000 children are trapped in the commercial sex trade in Kenya.
ChildsLife is building schools and supporting day care centers for AIDS orphans, street children and others in crisis. More than 1,500 children in Kenya attend schools supported by ChildsLife where they also receive daily meals and other assistance. In addition, ChildsLife has launched educational and business-loan programs for parents in Kenya to help them improve their lives and the lives of their children. School programsIn 1998, ChildsLife started supporting the Stara School in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum where more than 1 million people live without running water, electricity or sanitation systems. The school began with just six students but today offers education, food and hope to more than 500 children, most of whom have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Read more... AIDS programsAIDS is devastating families and communities across Kenya. Nearly one million children have lost parents to AIDS. An estimated 150,000 children under the age of 14 are living with the disease. ChildsLife sponsors programs to stop the spread of AIDS and help those already struggling against the disease. Read more... Maasai communitiesChildsLife supports schools that offer education and daily meals to more than 1,000 Maasai children in Kenya. ChildsLife also has launched an adult education program to teach Maasai women reading, math and other skills that allow them to provide better lives for themselves and their families. Read more... Abandoned babiesHundreds of infants are abandoned each year in Nairobi, deserted in hospitals just hours after being born or left along highways by mothers who are too poor, too young or too scared to know what else to do. The Hope House Babies Home, located in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi, takes these infants in and works to find loving families that will adopt them. Read more... Supporting women-groupWomen are often the only caregivers for poor children growing up in the slums of Nairobi. ChildsLife is helping the Mchanganyiko women-group, providing them with money and supplies to run the women-group. The money they make is used to feed and care for their families, making them role models in the community for other women struggling against the obstacles of poverty. Read more... Street childrenTens of thousands of children are homeless in Kenya, either having fled from abusive families or having lost their parents to AIDS. ChildsLife supports the Mully’s Children’s Family organization that takes these children off the streets and give them the love and care they deserve. Read more... |
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