Kenya
Projects
Our projects
The project “Eyes of Hope” helps to reintegrate children and adolescents living on the street and in orphanages into society. Trough the project they receive education, life skills training, and recreational activities and are helped to prepare their individual care plans, which seek to promote successful strategies for those preparing to leave care. Whenever and wherever possible, Ai.Bi. reinforces the right of each child to live in a family.
Some of the children and adolescents also have the opportunity to participate in “youth associations,” which provide chances for recreation, socialization, and and other group activities to help reduce the stigma of abandonment and improve self-esteem and social skills.
We work in Nairobi and Kajiado Districts in the following centres:
• Kwetu Home of Peace
• Kenya Children’s Home
• Vijiji Home of Light
• Wakibe Community Support Group
• Cottolengo Children’s Home
• Brydges Centre
• St. Paul’s Children Care Centre
Since 2009, 300 children in orphanages and rehabilitation centers have received services through this project and 150 young people take part in youth associations to promote their social inclusion.
1) Kwetu Home of Peace – Nairobi
2) Soila Masai Girls Rescue Centre – Rift Valley
3) Brydges Centre – Ngong
4) Upendo Rehabilitation Centre – Muranga
5) Kigulu Centre – Nairobi (Kibera slum )
6) Wakibe HIV/AIDS Community Support Project (WACOSUP) Association – Nairobi (Huruma slum)
Support the project
It is possible to support out projects in Kenya as follows:
Long-distance sponsorship
Support abandoned children in this country.
With a contribution it is possible to support all the foster care projects in the chosen country.
A voluntary donation:
• By phone: call +1 646 287 3676 with your credit card data and tell us the country where you want your donation to be sent
• Bank transfer: Bank of America, 266 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211 AiBi’s account number 483030124120, routing number 026009593 . Please, indicate the country where you want to send your donation
Context
A country characterised by strong inequalities
The Kenyan economy is based mainly ion agriculture and tourism, with an annual growth rate of 6% and strong inequalities in income distribution. The well-being of a few people is paid for by the utter poverty of many others.
50% of the population lives below the threshold of subsistence. The child abandonment rate is very high. Poverty, illness and scarce availability of resources compel thousands of families to abandon their children.
The child abandonment emergency
It is estimated that 8.6 million children live in absolute poverty; 2.4 of these children are orphans and 47% of these 2.4 million are orphans because the parents died of AIDS. In Kenya orphans lose their right to go to school, are the victims of discrimination and exploitation through child labour and are exposed to the risk of child trafficking and sexual tourism. Thousands of children without a family end up in institutions: these are overcrowded structures, ill-equipped to guarantee new hope for life.