Tushinde Children’s Trust works in the Mathare informal settlement, a collection of underdeveloped urban towns located less than 5 km away from the Nairobi City Centre in an old quarry 2km long and 300m wide. Around 200,000 people have limited access to sanitation and running water.
Mathare is home to thousands of vulnerable children, many of whom are neglected or abandoned while their parents look for food or money. With the help of social workers, Tushinde provides support, care and free education, helping families by raising money to sponsor the children and support local schools and projects.
Feeding Programme
We support the entire feeding programme at Veronica’s Day Care Centre, so that the children can enjoy a nutritious breakfast and healthy lunch six days a week. Our financial contributions also make it possible for two mothers to earn a living by cooking the meals at the centre.
Daycare centers are an integral part of Tushinde’s commitment. In Kenya, child support by government does not begin until the age of 6 (under the Free Primary Education programme). In informal settlements like Mathare, poverty levels mean women are often forced to leave their children unattended to go out and look for work. Providing a safe place to play, sleep and eat enables the mothers of these very young children to work and provide for their families.
At the end of every school year, our parents and children generously donate clothes, toys and dried food which are packed and sorted by all the members of staff. The donations are then loaded up into vans and taken to Veronica’s Day Care Centre and distributed by our members of staff. The donations play a vital role in our support of Tushinde.
Thanks to the support we provide through the feeding programme, children that were once sick and dangerously underweight are now beginning to thrive.
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