Community Outreach Program

Kwetu Home of Peace is a rehabilitation center for street boys, which has embraced the three-pronged approach of Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Reintegrate. KHP has two centers, Madaraka and Ruai, where the boys who agree to go through rehabilitation call home for two years. During this rehabilitation period, the families of the boys are also taken through training and counseling in order to ensure the boys are well integrated when they go back home. During the rehabilitation process, the boys are also taken back to school. Currently, they have more than 50 in various levels of learning.

By The Numbers: Last year, KHP had 6 of the boys sit for their KCPE exam, with the highest scoring 382 marks and the lowest scoring 289 marks. All of them have now joined high schools through a scholarship program.

Thus far we have participated in the mentoring and rehabilitation of roughly 400 street boys over the last 5 years. 

This is a rescue center for teenage mothers, located in the heart of Marurui slums. The rescue center provides refuge for the teen mums and their children as they seek to provide counseling for them and take them back to school. The girls range between ages 9-18.

We have been supporting teenage mothers and their children for more than 5 years now. Recently we donated 8 laptops and 2 computers that have facilitated learning at the center

From the year 2003, we have been working on a rehabilitation program with Kenyan Prisons, through the provision of scholarships in accounting related courses to inmates and prison wardens. This is aimed at providing opportunities for inmates who are released and are considered for job opportunities. We complement their learning with the provision of computers and a sports program. We are currently working with Naivasha, Kamiti, and Nairobi West Prisons. Conversations with Langata Prisons are scheduled for 2020.

Note: We have successfully seen inmates being released as part of their commitment to learning. One of them is scheduled to graduate with a degree in commerce from Kenyatta University this year (2020)

Thus far we have supported 58 prisoners and 10 wardens

This is a rescue center for physically challenged and abandoned young women, which is managed by the Missionaries of Charity, inspired by Mother Teresa. The rescue center depends for its support on divine providence and does not accept formal partnerships. They accept donations from anybody who is in their heart willing to donate to them.

We run programs with partners, students, staff, and alumni, whereby a team of volunteers go into a rural community and work on an infrastructural project or on the mentoring of high school students for an average duration of one week.

• Work Camps: volunteers work as unskilled manual laborers in construction and infrastructure rehabilitation projects. The idea is to reduce labor costs for a project, enhance belief among the local community that they have the capacity to improve on their situation with a bit of external help and give a deeper meaning to the volunteers’ work. Thus far we have managed to assist in the building of 3 churches, renovated more than 20 classrooms, built a maternity ward in Marakwet, built a 200 capacity dormitory and 400 capacity dining hall in Kitui, etc., to mention but a few.
• Mentoring Camps (Kisumu, Kwale, Kitui, and Nairobi): we run life skills and character development sessions with high school students in the aforementioned areas. Our focus is to cultivate hope, discipline, and a yearning to pursue excellence in the secondary school students. We have discussions with the high school students, aiming to share ideas on what they can do  to improve their lives.

STEP is an after-school support program in Turkana County, an Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL)located in the north-western part of Kenya. It supports learning where literacy rates are 20% due to challenges like extreme poverty, drought and child marriage.
STEP trains youth to become role models, mentors and beacons of hope in their communities. These youth work with local schools to improve learning outcomes for school children by running after-school activities during weekends and school holidays.
The STEP volunteer program supports educational equity and social transformation. By inspiring youth to engage in meaningful service, the program not only addresses the educational needs of marginalized communities in Kenya but also nurtures a generation of empathetic, skilled, and globally-minded leaders.
Through education, mentorship, and collaboration, we empower communities, bridge inequities, and create a brighter future for all.

Another Kind of Christmas brings the Christmas spirit to some of the most vulnerable homes in Turkana. By mobilizing donations for the Strathmore Christmas Caravan, every December just before Christmas the caravan collects and distributes donations of food, school supplies and clothing to families in Turkana.

We run revision camps for seniors to help them prepare for final exams. These sessions also include career guidance sessions, mentorship and guidance for scholarship application. For younger children, we support numeracy and literacy for ECE.

This program works at improving the quality of life of women and out of schoolgirls in Turkana
through skills training and vocational education. It combines basic business skills, numeracy and literacy with life skills training. One key project is the beadwork projects that gives work and a sense of purpose to women. The program also offers psycho-social support through natural conversation, story telling and peer counselling. This program aims to foster economic independence and self-sufficiency among women and girls.

STEP draws local volunteers from local sports teams which use sports to inculcate values to youth and children in Lodwar town. Through workshops and seminars, we bring together team managers coaches, captains from various teams in Turkana County to share knowledge, collaborate and grow together. The workshops provide insights and practical skills to sports leaders helping them sharpen their management, leadership and coaching.

Through character building we work with youth to help them grow in resilience and cultivate their personal values. We introduce importance of mentoring, values, leadership and lead conversations on peer influence among youth.