Helping street children to be Street Smart

April 2022 sees Child Rescue Kenya helping families to prepare their children for the new academic year that starts in the last week of this month.   For many years now, we have found that a critical component of successful reintegration of street children has been continuity of education and, to that end, have always assisted with any school fees and costs, new uniform and other school requisities to ensure reintegrated children can access school.  We are therefore busy right now helping families in need to acquire what is needed to get children to school on time next week,be it shopping for uniforms, excercise books or other needs.  The new school year begins!

At the same time, many families we work with have prepared their small shambas (farms or gardens) for planting in anticipation of the (late) rainy season due to hit any day now.  School children have spent the last couple of weeks of their holiday helping families prepare the land. Some families need help with seeds and tools.  The planting season has begun!

In addition, many of our youths have just this week completed National vocational exams.  These are optional national exams many apprentices can take to give them a further level of qualification to the regular Certiicate they receive on completion of our combined apprenticeship/college one year training course.  Many have chosen to do this which we are very happy about as it shows a level of commitment to their new trades and their desire to improve their skills to the next level. Their new careers begin!

This month we  are  also undertaken an assessment of our youth training programme (undertaken by an external expert) to ensure we are meeting our targets and to get feedback from all stakeholders with a view to making any necessary improvements and, hopefully, increasing our student intake next year.  This could be the beginning of something even bigger!

We are thankful for all your support and welcome your partnership as we move forward.