Watoto Wema Centre
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Mission Statement
To Rescue, Rehabilitate, Reintegrate and Re-socialize street children and to prevent children from going (back) to the street, and to provide quality and affordable healthcare to the children of Watoto Wema Centre and the community at large.
About This Cause
Watoto Wema Centre is a rescue and rehabilitation centre for street children based in Nairobi, Kenya. At the moment we take care of 79 former street children. We offer them education, accommodation, a balanced diet, education, family reunions, family reintegration, and psychological counseling. We do this through rescuing the children from the street, after which they go through extensive counseling. After rehabilitation, we do family tracing and reintegration. Then the child will continue to be supported from the family to prevent relapse back to the street. If family reintegration is not possible and the child is below 15 the child will go to school from the institution. If the child is 15 years and over we prepare the child for independent living. This means skill training on the job, like a mechanic, plumbing, hairdressing, baking etc. Then we pay rent for 9 months after which the child will be able to sustain themselves by earning money in the skills they have learned. Those children who wish to continue with formal education will be given a change to join secondary boarding school, after which if they receive the required entrée points will be enrolled in diploma or degree courses. For these activities we raise funds, but we also sell borehole and fresh water to the community for income generating. Watoto Wema Centre also runs a small health centre, where the children receive quality healthcare from the nurse, who is well known to the children as she is an employee of Watoto Wema Centre. The health facility is also open to the public.