Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale

by Child Rescue Kenya
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Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
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Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale
Reintegrate Street-Connected Children in Kitale

Project Report | Jun 23, 2025
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By Ian Wilson | Director

For over 20 years our organisation has been active in the rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of street connected children in Kitale.   Indeed, we were the first organisation to start this work here.  As the town grew, we battled to keep the numbers of children seeking street life at a manageable level and to get children off the streets as soon as possible after arrival in order to give them the best chance to reintegrate to a good home environment.  Over time, other organisations joined the battle and there are now three others helping to rescue, rehabilitate and reintegrate children in addition to several longer term homes.   Over the past few years, we have seen that too many cooks may spoil the broth and that some of the children are simply approaching one organsation after the other and this delays their successful reintegration.  This has led us to decide to take a more preventitive approach with these children.  We continue to be available for street outreach and interventions but we have now agreed that we will pass cases to one of the other active organisations to work on the rehabilitation and reintegration of younger children.  We now concentrate more on working with youths over 14 with a view to helping them find ways of learning skills - both life skills and work skills - that will enable them to pursue work opportunities and get off the streets and into safe home environments with potential to improve the standard of living of themselves and their families.  This help, particularly good vocational training, enables them to have sustainable income that, in time, will lead to a more stable home environment and, hopefully, prevent their own children from taking to the streets.  

More information on this is available on our skills training for youth project here on GlobalGiving.  We are now 'winding down'this project and will soon fully concentrate on working with youths to enable their reintegration into family and society through our training programmes.  Younger children will be referred to other organisations who we have worked closely with over the years.  

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Child Rescue Kenya

Location: Kitale, North Rift - Kenya
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Project Leader:
Su Corcoran
Kitale , Kenya
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