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The government has rescued close to 30 children from the streets of Nairobi which is part of a new exercise to rehabilitate families.
Speaking while launching the exercise at Uhuru Park , Chairperson Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund (SFRTF) Mary Wambui said the programme targets to rescue at least 500 street children from the streets of Nairobi.
Wambui said the exercise will run for four weeks targeting street children aged between 8 and 14 years.
The rescued will be placed in partner street families rehabilitation institutions in Nairobi where they will be taken through a rehabilitation programme that will span between three and nine months before they are integrated back to the community.
“We have today rescued 30 children but next week we are aiming to rescue 200 of them. We have partnered with Kwetu Home of Peace in this exercise,” said Wambui.
In the program the rescued children will be taken through both formal and informal education.
On her part, Kwetu Home of Peace manager Sister Jane Rose Nyongesa said the rescued children will be cleaned, given new clothes and detoxified in the first week.
They will then be taken through counseling and informal learning to gauge where they will be taken to and at what level in terms of education for the next three months.
The informal learning, she pointed out, will enable grouping of the children according to the level they were before they dropped out of school as well as gauge whether they know how to read so as to know where to place them in formal education with those not able to fit in formal education taken through life skills training.
“Our first stop will be Madaraka home where they will stay for three months. We will then take them to Ruai rehabilitation centre to get formal education,” said Ms Nyongesa.
The County Government of Nairobi plans to spend Sh40 million to rescue, rehabilitate and reintegrate at least 300 street and other vulnerable children in Nairobi.
Phase one will include rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration at a cost of Sh5million.
In Phase two, Sh3 million will be spent towards family reunification and integration, Sh2 million to supervise child care facilities and another Sh2 million to undertake trauma and therapy sessions.
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