This year Sadili Oval Sports Academy is targeting
out of school children to ensure that they get back to school and with that we
identified three schools .St Vincent De Paul Rehabilitation and Rescue Center,
Undugu society and Bridge of Hope located in Kibera who are doing an awesome
job in rehabilitating this children and giving them hope that tomorrow will be
better.
Undugu Society was started by a priest who had passion in helping street children, because
they were old enough that is 12 years and above and could not go to formal
schools he started a non formal system and looked for a curriculum tailored to
suit these children .They undergo classes where they are taught literacy and
numeracy for 4 years there after they go for short technical courses where they
get different skills for self reliance ,however the school noticed that they
could prevent this children from becoming street children by taking them in when they are young and integrating
them to formal schools after a while. Despite the good work that they are doing
they also face challenges as there is no parental support most parent neglect
their children, there is peer influence some street children go back to the
streets, integrating the children to the formal system is a problem, unfriendly
environment and community interference in their activities but Mr. Kamau Ngugi
the head teacher of the school is determined to bring change and help the
community with the few he is working with. His motivation comes from the few
who successfully finished their courses and are now running their own
businesses and are self-reliant.
St Vincent De Paul is run by a group volunteers
connected with St Vincent De Paul the organization caters for a maximum of 30
children aged 3-6years and in there criteria of admitting new children, they
give the first priority to total orphans, HIV positive parents and children to
reduce stigma in the community, young mothers and the destitute they achieve
this by the help of social workers. “We encourage equality thus we provide
school uniforms for all to promote uniformity and food for lunch and tea break
we also economically empower our parents who are unable to support their
children by giving them initial capital to start up a business to support their
families, we have beautiful classrooms to help the children forget all the
problems that they go through at home and experience a new environment and even
after our children are done with Nursery school we always follow-up with them
to ensure that they successfully join class one and we offer scholarships to
those who are unable. Our essential areas are Love, Nutrition and Education to
ensure positive growth of the children” said Edwin Ariz who is the school administrator.
We as Sadili are super excited to be partnering with
these schools by using sports and life skills to teach them various WASH (water,
sanitation and hygiene) practices to improve their health, education and later
their future.
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| St Vincent De Paul classroom |
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| St Vincent De Paul library |
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| Bridge of hope classrooom |
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| Children rights as designed by Undugu |
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| Undugu School |
Undugu Society was started by a priest who had passion in helping street children, because
they were old enough that is 12 years and above and could not go to formal
schools he started a non formal system and looked for a curriculum tailored to
suit these children .They undergo classes where they are taught literacy and
numeracy for 4 years there after they go for short technical courses where they
get different skills for self reliance ,however the school noticed that they
could prevent this children from becoming street children by taking them in when they are young and integrating
them to formal schools after a while. Despite the good work that they are doing
they also face challenges as there is no parental support most parent neglect
their children, there is peer influence some street children go back to the
streets, integrating the children to the formal system is a problem, unfriendly
environment and community interference in their activities but Mr. Kamau Ngugi
the head teacher of the school is determined to bring change and help the
community with the few he is working with. His motivation comes from the few
who successfully finished their courses and are now running their own
businesses and are self-reliant.
St Vincent De Paul is run by a group volunteers
connected with St Vincent De Paul the organization caters for a maximum of 30
children aged 3-6years and in there criteria of admitting new children, they
give the first priority to total orphans, HIV positive parents and children to
reduce stigma in the community, young mothers and the destitute they achieve
this by the help of social workers. “We encourage equality thus we provide
school uniforms for all to promote uniformity and food for lunch and tea break
we also economically empower our parents who are unable to support their
children by giving them initial capital to start up a business to support their
families, we have beautiful classrooms to help the children forget all the
problems that they go through at home and experience a new environment and even
after our children are done with Nursery school we always follow-up with them
to ensure that they successfully join class one and we offer scholarships to
those who are unable. Our essential areas are Love, Nutrition and Education to
ensure positive growth of the children” said Edwin Ariz who is the school administrator.
