By Alexandra Mateer | Project Leader
In Kenya, our partner Child Rescue Kenya (CRK) runs and facilitates a variety of projects that are essential to empowering children. One key element of their approach is that they ensure wide participation by taking projects into communities and bringing communities into projects.
Using networking and sporting, CRK has been working to better integrate the children living on the streets of Kitale into the broader community. The community and local schools have slowly been changing their attitudes towards these children, and coupled with fortnightly sporting events, they are increasingly interacting with children in formal education. Excitingly, the nearby primary schools now invite the children to participate in football tournaments. Recently, the talent of five of the boys we support has been recognised, and they have been registered with the Trans-Nzoia under 15 football team. We are proud to share that the team's top scorer is one of ours, a boy who has been on the streets for more than four years.
In facilitating interactions with other children, we are helping the children we support to improve their relationships with the community and to once more feel like they belong. It is thanks to your support that this is possible. Together we really are making a difference, one child at a time.
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