Happy Nairobi Kids Centre
Happy Nairobi Kids organization is a charitable organization that caters for the orphaned, street and needy children in the slum and street of Nairobi Kenya, where basic needs and housing facilities are not sufficient, there is limited access to medical and education services and the culture of violence predominates everyday life, those factors combined with others have led to children seeking survival mechanism on their own which often Leads them to engage in antisocial behavior, child labour, prostitution, street life and drug abuse.
Happy Nairobi Kids Provides a safe and loving environment to Kenyan orphan, street and needy children. Education, psychological care and love in a family setting allows these children to feel welcomed and loved. These factors enable them to realize and embrace opportunities that would otherwise be lost.
Founder
With their future hanging in the balance, the sunken eyes, the depressed moods and hopelessness evident on the faces of needy, orphan and poor children, one young man's heart was touched and he resolved to do whatever he could to cheer up those children. With a bunch of sugarcanes planted at the backyard of his rented plot he started by sharing them with the children who automatically realized their worth and started to shed off their gloomy moods and become happy this in turn led to the coinage of the word HAPPY NAIROBI KIDS.
Through tenacity and dedication, the young man established the center to be able to take care and educated the vulnerable children in Nairobi, having himself been brought up in the same situation of poverty and misery. To him having three meals a day was a dream. Through great struggle and assistance from teachers, he completed his primary education and passed .He made friendship with teachers so that in return they supported him and saw him complete his primary education.
After completing his primary school and passing he had no hope of
going ahead with his secondary education as his family could not
manage to raise the school fees, it was very sad for him to look at
his fellow friends join high school, but he did not lose hope he
started by doing manual jobs to get food to support his family and
sister who was by then in primary school, one year later he met with a
well-wisher who after listening to his story offered to support him
trough high school but as fate could have it his happiness was cut
short the following year when he realized that his good friend had
left the country after his business closed.
He had to stop school and look for casual job and save little by little after saving for five
months he went to a newly established private high school and because
they had less students they agreed to admit him and he joined his
second year in school, in his first team in the third year the owners
of the school disagreed and the school was indefinitely closed leaving
Francis with no hope of ever completing school.
luckily one of he
former school teacher opened a small school and after a presenting his
case he was admitted and in return to be paying in installments which
his mother could afford after having started a hawking business, in
the third form I acquired a bursary from the government of Kenya which
enabled him to complete secondary education, after which he joined a
government sponsored training institution where he specialized in
counseling and guidance. After completing training he attended several
seminars to sharpen his skills in counseling and guidance. The
experience so acquired has helped counsel many children countrywide.
Background Information
Happy Nairobi Kids was established in January 2006 and officially
registered on the 20th February 2007 with an expression aim of
assisting the needy orphan, street kids in the slums and streets of
Nairobi, where kids live in extreme poverty where basic needs and
housing facility are not sufficient, there is limited access to
medical and education services and the culture of violence
predominates everyday life, those combined with others have led to
children seeking survival mechanisms on their own which often leads
them to engage in anti social behavior, child labor, prostitution,
street life, drug abuse etc.
Happy Nairobi Kids is dedicated to bringing hope to the homeless,
orphaned and destitute children amidst this despairing situation.
Our Vision
To see that the needy orphan and street children are brought up in good morals with a place to call home and be responsible adults in future.
Our Mission
Empowering the needy orphans and street children by offering them equal opportunity in education, skill training, counseling and love in a friendly environment.
Objectives
- Providing basic need to the children e.g. food , shelter and clothes
- Providing holistic education.
- Reinstating back to school children with interest and seek sponsors to give them support.
- Empowering the young with personal skills to self-reliance.
- Establish contact between the children and their families and community at large.
- Restore the dignity of the youngsters.
Centre's Population
January 2nd 2006 saw the doors of the first Happy Nairobi Kids
facilities open to six orphans, since then the number has grown to
over ninety (90). This is in response to the increasing number of HIV/Aids orphan and street children, it is estimated that there are
120,000 children or more living in the streets and slums of Nairobi
85% of whom are sexually active and practice unplanned sporadic and
unprotected sex.
This has accelerated the speed of HIV/Aids and led
to second generation street families, street children have been
marginalized by society and this have led to their involvement in
petty theft, begging, prostitution and exhibiting violence to others
and themselves. Most of the children at Happy Nairobi Kids come from
very difficult circumstance, many come from the street where they have
been foraging for food in trash bins and sleeping under buses, some
are complete orphans having lost both parents to HIV/Aids.
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Our Contacts
HAPPY NAIROBI KIDS.
P. O. Box 60363-00200,
Nairobi,
Kenya.
Telephone: + 254 723-345-582
E-Mail: info@happynairobikids.or.ke,
francis@happynairobikids.or.ke / happykidscommunity@yahoo.co.uk
Web Site: www.happynairobikids.or.ke
Physical Location: We are located at Dagoretti Market 3 km from Karen
shopping center taking Dagoretti road.