As many of our friends in the U.S. are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, we also want to express our gratitude.
Thank you for partnering with Shelter Yetu to rescue vulnerable children, provide them with a safe place to heal and reunite them with safe, loving families! This year, we have been able to rescue more than 100 children from the streets, and begin the process of reuniting them.
During the pandemic, we began providing emergency food assistance to some of the most vulnerable families in Kenya, with the goal of keeping families together and keeping children off the streets. Each month, we provide around 50 families in our program an emergency food pack. This ensures that the family will be able to stay together, and children will not go hungry, or return to the streets in search of food.
A monthly gift of $30 will feed a family, and keep a child safe at home, instead of on the streets.
A one-time gift of $1,000 will rescue a child currently living on the streets, provide him with all the services he needs to heal (temporary shelter, counseling, medical care, education, food and life skills), and reunite him with a safe, loving family.
A family for every orphan
Recently, the Shelter Yetu team had the opportunity to partner with the government to host a training for all the orphanages in Naivasha.
Earlier this year, Kenya launched the National Care Reform Strategy and signed into law the 2022 Children’s Act. These policies mark a new approach to care for orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya--shifting away from traditional residential care (orphanages) and toward family and community-based care.
Directors and social workers from 23 orphanages (serving more than 800 children) attended the training, and learned how they could get more children into safe, loving families.
“I wouldn't want my own children to live in an orphanage," one participant told us after the event, "so why do we think it's best for the children in our care?”
“It is better to empower the family in the community rather than separating them from their children.”
Shelter Yetu is grateful for the opportunity to help hundreds of children in Naivasha have the opportunity to be a part of a loving family!
We're also grateful that the rains have begun in Naivasha, and our new garden is coming up beautifully!
We've partnered with Harvesting for Good with funding from Förderverein Naivasha Children’s Shelter e.V. to design and plant a beautiful garden that will help improve sustainability and provide nutritious meals for the children living at the Shelter, as well as teach them principles of organic gardening!
