Street Child Makeni

• Phase 1 - emergency
• Phase 2 - educational
• Phase 3 - sustainability

Once the child is settled back in the family, the child is at least 'saved' - from the crazy, unsustainable life of the street, the focus is now on 'giving the child a life'.

PHASE 2 - 'Educational & stability phase'

Children are offered 2 'tracks' of long-term support (hope) - vocational or educational.

1 - Vocational support lasts a year - typically learning a marketable skill such as welding carpentry sewing or potentially something contemporary such as IT.

2 - Educational support consists of six terms school fees and all related costs. (Most children opt for educational support - especially the younger ones).

At the same time, for up to 2 years children are encouraged to come to the Centre daily to benefit from all the facilities described (Saturday is compulsory!).

The process of returning to a normal life from the street - again is really that, a process - and one which needs a lot of support. Ex-street children face real stigma and challenges - and coming together frequently is really important in terms of 'mutual-support'; for our workers to monitor individual children's progress; and also because it eases the transitions and immediate burden (including financial) on the child's family.

And the whole goal of our work is to achieve sustainability. For the child who lived in a perilous, unsustainable fashion on the street to now live a life with prospects in the bosom of family and community.

> Phase 3 - sustainability