KE 16 - EDUCATING IS GIVING HOPE
Project Location
The project is carried out in Kariobangi and Korogocho, an informal settlement east of Nairobi. The area is densely populated and it is estimated that about 500,000 people live in the parish territory. People live in shacks made of iron sheet metal and recycled material or in concrete buildings, real "vertical" shacks. The shacks are attached to each other, divided by paths that are at the same time drainage for sewerage.
Korogocho is an area bordering the Nairobi dumping site, so it is an unhealthy area and those who live there are exposed to disease and poverty. In this slum women, children, men all try to live with various kinds of skills or spend their day at the dumping site to separate paper, plastic, glass, metals and anything else that could be useful. Many families live on less than a dollar a day and struggle to get at least one meal per day.
In this situation of need, social and moral life suffers the consequences, making women and children a very vulnerable category. Despite this, people do not lose hope and always have a smile on their faces. Children often join their parents even if they are eager to go to school, but the situation in which they live does not allow them to enjoy this right. They are often reduced to living on the street or searching through the waste of the dumpsite for things they could use or sell. The needs are many and helping everyone is not possible, but we try to help at least some of them.
Project description
The Comboni Sisters live in Kariobangi and know many families in the area. Through this project they would like to support 16 deserving children and young people who come from such families. Supporting them means allowing them to develop their potential to be a support in the family in the future.
At the same time, scholarships relieves the family of the cost of tuition and allows them to focus on other needs. The project coordinator monitors the progress of all students by entering into dialogue with teachers.
Objectives
- Ensuring quality education for 20 children and young people
- Improve their family situation
Beneficiaries
Direct: 20 children and teenagers
Indirect: families
Referent sister of the project: Sr. Lucrecia Tiguila
Project's costs