“I Belong”: How Kenya is Re-Shaping Children’s Services
When Amina was 8, she had never known what it meant to eat dinner with a family. She grew up in a large children’s home outside Nairobi, with dozens of other children…
Developing Women Leaders
KCC has fought to protect, educate and advance the girls and young women in our orbit. In 2021 this motivated us to set up our Women Leaders Programme, to offer wrap-around support for extremely disadvantaged girls to complete their education and develop the skills and self-confidence to become self-sustaining. This blog explains the impact of the programme on their, and our, lives.
Ngoingwa Estate – home of Kujali
In this blog Rachel, the manager of the Kujali centre, explores the area around our compound - the Ngoingwa estate.
KCC. Supporting Education
In our last blog Janet, our Outreach Manager, explained the changes to the education system in Kenya. Education is key to the prospects of children. In this blog, Janet explains how KCC is supporting the education of disadvantaged children.
Kenya’s New Education Curriculum
Janet Gichera, one of our managers in Kenya, explains how the education system in Kenya is changing in support of Kenya’s Vision 2030.
KCCs Reproductive Health Programme
KCCs Reproductive Health Programme was set up to tackle the root causes of unwanted babies and their abandonment. Most young people in the poorer areas of Kenya receive no guidance on…
Women’s Health in Kenya
Rape, misogyny, period shame. These are all factors that contribute to the hardship of women in Kenya. In this blog we give some more detail about these issues and their impact on women, and discuss how reproductive health education is at the heart of their resolution.
Kujali Abandoned Baby Unit – A Day In The Life
In this blog, Rachel explains what life in the Kujali Abandoned Baby Unit is like – by explaining ‘a day in the life’ of the unit. In summary, it is very similar to many mothers’ days – feed, change, play, sleep . . . repeat – but on a bigger scale!
Kujali Abandoned Baby Unit
Our last blog explained how abandoned babies are a major issue in Kenya. To help improve their life prospects Kenya Children Centres funded the creation, and continues to fund the day-to-day operations, of a dedicated Abandoned Baby Unit in the Kujali Children’s Centre, a Charitable Children’s Institute (CCI) near Thika. This blog looks at how the Centre has improved the lives of the abandoned babies taken into its care.
Abandoned Babies
Unwanted pregnancy among young girls in Kenya is rife. According to the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2014, a quarter of women have given birth by age 18 and almost half by age 20. More recent statistics show that 40% of girls between 15 and 19 in poor communities become pregnant, with many even younger, barely teenagers. That has led to an epidemic of unwanted babies.