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Riziki Kenya 2009 KIN Program Update

Feeding:- The country has been in prolonged drought resulting in country wide hunger and starvation. This led to scarcity of food and rise in prices. At the feeding center we received more children than the previous year. Some Saturday’s up to 160 children in a session. We had to control the influx of children in order to maintain quality of food. Our joy is that we received enough funds to feed the children on a nutritious balanced diet irrespective of the hiking prices and increased numbers

Education Support:- This year saw the transfer to public high schools of six girls from St. Charles Mutego to Muthambi girl’s high school and Nagita girls. The girls are happy, very motivated and working very hard despite the challenge of new environment. It was big blessing for the principals to accept these girls in those schools because they did not academically qualify. Pray for them that they may catch up.

Psychosocial care and support:- We provided individual specialized Child counseling to 57 children ranging from age 7 to 19 years. The issues had to do with developmental tasks, academic performance, sexuality, stress, relationships, HIV/AIDS, Alcohol and Substance abuse, parent/caregiver child relations, STIs, marriage, pregnancy and abortion. Most of the children counseled were compliant, came willingly and a few were referred. We also counseled 29 care givers individually. Their concerns were: marital conflicts, divorce, separation, bereavement, business, poverty, health, stress, child relationships. Demand for individualized counseling is on the increase due to stresses of life. We hope to scale up this program by training peer counselors and educators among the children and the guardians since we have only one qualified counselor.

Business Support:- This program experienced tremendous growth from the previous 20 member in the year 2009 to 137 members this year. It had great impacts. The beneficiaries who are mostly women confess that they gained self esteem since they can bring food home. Their dignity was restored, jobs created and family stability.

Vocational training:- Semira is the happiest girl having undergone Hairdressing training and gotten a job with the training school. She is happy and full of smiles and hope.

Guardianship:- the program has grown tremendously and more children were placed on guardianship. This is our best practice and many organizations and both local and international have visited to see and liked the program because of its holistic approach to child development.

Seminars:- For the first time we held age set children’s seminars that were very informative on various issues such as sexuality, academic performance, alcohol and drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, relationships where specialized professionals interacted with children. We held a medical camp that gave us insight on health of the children and areas to improve and also children received multivitamins and medicines. We also had caregivers seminars on health issues, business growth, child care, peace and reconciliation.

Health care campaigns:- we provided caregivers with provectors ( a chemically treated equipment that is human friendly and kills mosquitoes) which were placed in their households for prevention of malaria. A survey conducted in September and October indicated that the prevectors were 99.7% effective. This resulted in the presentation of the same to a World Health Organization summit held in Geneva. We plan to scale up the project. It was also featured on CNN news twice in early November. By God’s grace refillers for the provectors were shipped and more people will receive them.

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