CHEERS Kenya targets to educate several impoverished children from the slums and also from the marginalised Northen Kenya by providing education, technical training, school materials, food and medical care.

Challenge
With dire poverty in the slums, few people/families can educate and provide the basic needs of their children leading to more than 260,000 children living/working in the streets of Nairobi. We CHEERS Kenya endeavor to provide support, promote and secure children’s rights to education, food, health and general well being in slums to over 150 children annually through empowering participatory processes and community outreach so that children may not end up on the streets or dead.

Solution
We pick the school or technical training jointly with the child. We pay for school requirements inclusive of school fees and sanitary pads for the girls. We provide medicine and food as needed. We follow up regularly with schools and give the children psycho-social support. We provide counseling to all involved stakeholders. We provide life-skills training to both guardians and the youths.