CARE CENTRE PROGRAM
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Our Care Centre program provides a supportive boarding residence to orphans and vulnerable children so they have the safety and stability they need to learn, develop, and aspire.
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The Problem
There are more than one million orphans in Kenya - children who have lost one or both of their parents. Surviving family members typically provide care, but some children are abandoned or neglected, and many are raised in poverty so deep that it creates immense barriers to normal development that are beyond the reach of our Home-based support program.
What we’re doing about it
We prefer family care and believe children should be raised by loving family members, which is why we support more one hundred children and their families through our Home-based family care program. However, some children's wellbeing and safety are at such a great risk that living in the Care Centre during the school year is the best way to catalyze a brighter future. The Care Centre provides a loving home where up to 50 orphans and vulnerable children have the stability, guidance, care, and material support they need to learn and grow with good health and confidence.
There are more than one million orphans in Kenya - children who have lost one or both of their parents. Surviving family members typically provide care, but some children are abandoned or neglected, and many are raised in poverty so deep that it creates immense barriers to normal development that are beyond the reach of our Home-based support program.
What we’re doing about it
We prefer family care and believe children should be raised by loving family members, which is why we support more one hundred children and their families through our Home-based family care program. However, some children's wellbeing and safety are at such a great risk that living in the Care Centre during the school year is the best way to catalyze a brighter future. The Care Centre provides a loving home where up to 50 orphans and vulnerable children have the stability, guidance, care, and material support they need to learn and grow with good health and confidence.
The Care Centre is not a school. All 50 or so children staying there attend public elementary schools within a short walking distance.
The Care Centre is also not an orphanage. The children who stay there maintain strong connections with their families and village communities, returning to their homes several months each year.
The Care Centre is a loving and supportive second home, a place where children facing extraordinary challenges have the opportunities they need to develop with confidence into productive and caring members of their communities.
The Care Centre is also not an orphanage. The children who stay there maintain strong connections with their families and village communities, returning to their homes several months each year.
The Care Centre is a loving and supportive second home, a place where children facing extraordinary challenges have the opportunities they need to develop with confidence into productive and caring members of their communities.
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Care Centre children
go to school with an impressive rate of 95% attendance, which means they miss school 5x less than Kenya's average |
Our Care Centre program supports 48 children with a comprehensive set of support that helps them to learn and develop with safety and stability
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In the face of tremendous challenges,
58% of our 8th grade graduates score in the top half of national exam results |
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What does a sponsorship provide?Your $415 annual sponsorship helps us provide a holistic support program that costs well over $1,500 per child each year. We cover the difference through our general fund and our Care Centre Fund, but we are currently in the process of pairing a second sponsor with each Care Centre child to reduce this shortfall, which means we need new care centre sponsors!
Sponsorship helps us provide each child with:
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