Home for abandoned babies /children. Nairobi.

This children’s home is located in Nairobi’s Githurai estate. The home is currently a dwelling to more 25 children with diverse needs.
All the children in the home are total orphans and were found abandoned in the streets as young as a couple of months or weeks old. Others were rescued from other forms of destitutions arising from orphan situations.
The children ages range from a couple of weeks to 14 years. Even the young ones already speak English thanks to a baby class room that is within the home’s compound.
These children’s survival comes from well wishers and it’s a struggle to pay for their education that totals to over Ksh50,000($700). There are those who need medical attention but above all, they all need someone to laugh with and associate with like though they were a brother, a sister, a father or a mother. Other than these, the children can be helped with books and other forms of learning materials.

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Because of the children’s varying and somber backgrounds, the home will be glad to have child therapists to help them contend with their situations, give them hope in life and inspire them for the better.
The home is also in need of teachers as it has a baby class within the compound.
Also needed are nurses and doctors. The medics could attend to the children everyday of his or her placement because the children fall sick from time to time. Medics who would like to work at this home could come with a couple of medical tools as the home does not have a dispensary wing. Drugs and other forms of medications are cheaper when bought in the country. This way one can also be sure that the drugs are relevant to the disease.
The home does not also mind having people whose professions don’t fall within the above as there is so much to do in the day to day care of these children. Its therefore open to anyone who feels they can help such as couples or students. Volunteers are expected to take part in all duties to help staff in this location. Tasks included washing by hand, sweeping and helping cooking and other jobs that form an essential part of the running of these placements. Potential volunteers must understand this prior to booking.

This program would best suit any one with a humane heart. Someone willing to reach out and inspire hope where there might be none. People with a niche to leave the world a better place that he/she found it.
This program would also suit groups of two to twenty with a common goal like fund raising to buy such home kitchen equipments or buy them enough food to take them through a month, six months or a year.
Such groups could initiate projects like painting the home, buying more beddings, toys, books, medicine, expand the home building wise to accommodate more children comfortably. This is because Kenya produces an orphan every five minutes as results of deaths from HIV/AIDS and other ailments.
The program would also best for those who wish to teach and work in a children’s home simultaneously.You really could make this placement your own.

Food and accommodation will be provided for by a carefully selected host family in Nairobi.We include airport pick ups, inductions and bottled water.

This placement is suitable for people from all walks and strips of life – with an interest in fellow human beings’ plights and sufferings. A month or two here could change lives. Including perhaps your own!

Many who have visited East African cities, have an impression that, “Nairobi is East Africa’s hub of fun". The city is awash with standard fun bobbling joints for the young and the old alike. Nairobi is the only city in the world where one can go for a game drive in the wild, thus, weekends out to the Nairobi National Park could be in order. There is also the Nairobi Safari Walk, Animal orphanage, a giraffe and an elephant sanctuary, where one could get to kiss a giraffe lip to lip.
For a cultural night out a visit to the Bomas of Kenya, will leave you thrilled and educated about various Kenyan traditional cultures, music and history.One could also climb Mount Longonot, two hours drive from the city, for skilled climbers, Inspire Kenya will be more than glad to organise her volunteers a climb up Africa’s second highest point – Mount Kenya. The mountain’s icy peaks of Batian (5199m) and Nelion (5,189m) are accessible only to experienced mountaineers,
Kenyans are uniquely hospitable people, intelligent and out going. A chat with them over a drink after a hard day’s work could be equally a fun.

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