Heshima Kenya’s Safe House offers a community for refugee youth and children to restore their physical and mental health and enhance their personal safety.
Urban unaccompanied adolescent girls ages 13 to 19 in forced displacement are considered the most vulnerable in population in Nairobi. A desperate need exists to provide them with effective tools that protect them from rape, forced marriage, prostitution, discrimination, at-risk pregnancies, slavery and HIV/AIDS. Heshima’s Safe House is the first and only shelter in Nairobi designed to specifically meet their critical protection needs.
Residents live securely in a gender-sensitive, child-friendly, and security-focused environment while practicing good hygiene, enjoying safe drinking water and 3 nutritious meals daily, and accessing holistic case management and education programs
Residents have access to Heshima’s other programs that enable girls to transition to self-sufficiency and reintegrate into the Nairobi community with a renewed sense of stability and confidence.
"I feel great joy that I can sleep in a bed at night, wake up and eat breakfast, go to class, eat lunch. I don't need to talk about my past. This is my new life."
- Jenette, Safe House resident and GEP participant
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,118
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $9,882
Total Funding Goal: $15,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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