INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITY: Teule Bakery

Bakery in Oloitokitok
The bakery has stated operating this year to supply bread to the community of Oloitokitok. However the bakery has been providing the children with their daily bread. We are trying to strengthen the operations of this bakery to be fully operational.

INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES: Teule Guesthouse

Guesthouse in Oloitokitok
This is a guesthouse that is in Oloitokitok that serves the community and also volunteers who come to work with our children.
It has a capacity of hosting upto 16 people especially those coming as groups.

PROJECT: Kibo Slopes Academy

HCI-Kenya runs a primary school - Kibo Slopes Academy (KSA) in Oloitokitok District. The school was registered in March 2006 by the government as a formal school. The primary objective of the school is to provide special and formal education for children in HCI-Kenya programme and those from the Oloitokitok community. Kibo Slopes has a teaching staff of nine teachers and four support staff. It is a school that also serves the community in Oloitokitok by admitting children who are willing to pay fees. This income subsidizes the income for Teule Kenya. In the year 2006, we received a donation from Barclays Bank towards the construction of Classrooms. Those classrooms are nearly complete and currently need only Kshs 50000 (USD 700) to complete
This school has excelled in extra curricula activities like drama and sports competitions. Sending pupils up to the provincial competitions in the past.

PROJECT: Chombo Cha Upendo Home

Due to the nature of some of the cases we deal with, HCI-Kenya also operates a shelter/rescue centre in Oloitokitok. The home with a capacity of 79 is currently providing shelter to 70 children. in this home, we have two dormitories that have a capacity of 32 each and one that has a capacity of 15 children. We have an administration block that houses a library, Community integration offices and the nurse's office. We have two twenty foot containers, one that is the finance office and the other is a food store. There is a store for other supplies and a kitchen and dining hall.
In this home all the needs of the children, from food to clothing and shelter and medical care. They are provided with a 24 hour care by the staffs who work diligently to provide emotional and psychosocial support for these children.

CORE SERVICES: Education

These are services aimed at ensuring that vulnerable children receive educational and vocational opportunities in accord with community norms and market-driven employment options. Further, they aim to ensure that school programs at all levels take into account the special needs of vulnerable children in terms of sensitizing teachers to identify signs of distress, promoting the availability of support groups and counseling services, supporting efforts to make curricula more flexible and responsive, and supporting anti-stigma programs. Services include:
1) Child level:
Teule Kenya aspires to support all the children through school to the highest level possible. It provides links with sponsors to enable these children attend school high school and even get tertiary education. Although the government has decided to subsidize both primary and secondary education, there are certain expenses that the caregivers are supposed to provide for and thus still many children are faced with a challenge of meeting those expenses. Teule Kenya seeks to support these expenses.
Primary School Education
While the government has implemented the free primary education programme, there are still challenges facing caregivers and challenges that act as an inhibition to children in our programmes. These challenges are caused by difficulties in their environment, their educational background most of which are poor and poverty in their homes thus the caregivers cannot afford to pay for lunch and extra tuition. They need help to cater for these expenses and also meet the lunch expenses. HCI Kenya supports them through this period by paying for such expenses while working hand in hand with the schools and the caregivers.
Teule Kenya runs a primary school in Oloitokitok District called Kibo slopes Academy that primarily serves the children in Chombo Cha Upendo Home and is also income generating in that it admits fee paying children from the community.
Secondary School Education
On average it costs Kshs 50,000 annually to maintain a child in Secondary public schools in Kenya. The cost include School fees (Kshs 30,000), Uniforms, Bus fares (to & from school including mid-terms); Medical fee, Toiletries, Extra Text Books, Pencils, Pens, Calculators, etc. The guardians/caregivers are encouraged to participate by providing one time basic items like cups, plates and spoons at the time the child is reporting to Form 1. They also participate in getting a school for the child and making follow-up visits to the school. However, the guardians’ responsibility can only be stretched so far as they all live below the poverty line, and many of them have their own children and therefore, all they provide for the children in our program is a social safety net.
Two thirds of the children in our program have individual sponsorships from various sources, but these funds only cover 50% of their annual costs. The balance of their costs that is not sponsored is usually covered by one time donations from well wishers, but unfortunately, their education is occasionally interrupted as they are sent away from school for lack of school fees.

College Education

Currently 20 of HCI-Kenya older children have qualified for college education, having successfully completed their secondary school education with a mean grade of C- and above. However, competition for places in Public Universities has increasingly become stiff. For example, unconfirmed reports indicate that for candidates who sat Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in 2006, only those who scored mean grades of A- and above will get places in Public Universities in Kenya. Therefore majority of children in our program will qualify to join private universities and colleges, or diploma public colleges, but unfortunately, government bursaries are rarely extended to these institutions. HCI-Kenya current resources cannot support college education even at the diploma level, due to the high costs ranging from Kshs 75,000 to 200,000 including hostel fees and their upkeep. Currently only 3 of KCSE graduates are in college.

Vocational Training
For those of the children who do not qualify to pursue Secondary School Education, HCI-Kenya seeks to equip them with skills that they can use to earn a living. This group of children requires about Kshs 150,000
· Direct assistance to subsidize school costs by payment of school levies for the 384 community based children who attend mainly Public primary and private Early Childhood institutions. Teule Kenya works in partnership with the schools to facilitate access to quality education by constant monitoring and evaluation at the school level.
· Providing support groups and counseling groups.
Encouraging extra curricula activities in school.

CORE SERVICES: Economic Srengthening

Economic strengthening services

These services aim at enabling families to meet their own needs economically, in spite of changes in the family situation due to HIV/AIDS and the other factors that cause vulnerability in children. Depending on the context, services include:
1) child/caregiver/family level:
Caregivers are encouraged to form group to initiate income-generating activities involving small business, Agriculture, and ge
2) Community level:
Community-based child care,
Community Based Program for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children
HCI-Kenya works with the caregivers to build family capacity to support orphaned and vulnerable children (OVCs). We support orphaned and vulnerable children who are community based. We support these children by providing them with Educational support which consists of School uniform and tuition fees whenever needed, nutritional supplements which is basically some food for the family, A mosquito net for the prevention of Malaria, a lantern since most of them do not have electricity in their houses for studying and a Blanket to keep warm. Our field workers monitor these children monthly both at home and in school and also conduct trainings for their caregivers to ensure that they are safe and growing up in a safe environment. We also seek to link them with sponsors that will continue supporting their education and growth.

Community-based asset building to Access to credit;

CORE SERVICES: Psychosocial Support

These services are aimed at ensuring that children have the human attachments necessary for normal development and that children can participate cooperatively in activities such as school, recreation, and work with other children and adults.
Services include
1) Child level:
· Activities that support life skills and self-esteem,
· Activities that strengthen the connection between child and traditional social networks,
Counseling for children, rehabilitation for children who abuse drugs or alcohol;
2) caregiver/family level:
· Parenting and communication skills for caregivers,
Support during illness (assist with disclosure of information, grief management, succession planning, preserving memories, etc.,) and
3) Community level:
increasing community understanding of psychosocial needs of vulnerable children through workshops with a focus Reproductive health and Child rights
4) System level:
providing training for teachers within school systems to identify at-risk children in need of psychosocial support and supporting through peer counseling clubs and groups.

CORE SERVICES: Protection

These services are aimed at reducing stigma and social neglect as well as ensuring access to basic rights and services and protecting children from abuse and exploitation.
The range of services includes:
1) Child level:
· Assisting with birth registration and inheritance claims,
· Preventing sibling separations,
Rescue of children
Teule Kenya intervenes by rescuing children faced with the threat of abuse and Negative Cultural practices such as Female Genital Circumcision and Early Marriage among the Maasai Oloitokitok. We work closely with the provincial administration to ensure that these children are safe and able to attend school without any interference. While this is happening we ensure that they are reconciled to their families as they are their heritage.
2) Caregiver/family level:
· support with parenting and care-giving responsibilities, a
assisting with access to available services like education and health care, and
3) Community level:
Training members of the community to identify and assist children needing assistance whereby Teule Kenya is working hand in hand with the Government and the local community in Oloitokitok to rescue children from harmful cultural practices ;
4) Social marketing campaigns to support values that protect children for example where we ran workshops on reproductive health and children’s rights in Oloitokitok.
Child Protection Advocacy
Teule Kenya also conducts child rights and protection advocacy workshops in the community. We have held workshops in the Oloitokitok community by having workshops in schools for both the children and the caregivers. We do hope that we can continue to speak for the children through celebrations like the day of the African child and specially organized child advocacy workshops

CORE SERVICES: Shelter and Care

These are services that ensure that no child goes without shelter, clothing, access to clean safe water or basic personal hygiene and that children have at least one adult who provides them love and support. Services include:
1) Child level:
· Transitional care in the Chombo cha Upendo rescue centre which has a capacity of 64 children
· Support of child-headed households whenever we identify any;
Reintegration of children in institutional care,

2) caregiver/family level:
· Assisting with reunification to take children off streets,
· Referral to programs that provide incentives for adoption,
Foster care for children whose home situation is not safe and protective as we link our children with people in the community who can support them emotionally..
3) Community level:
Support of family-based care with home visits and other strategies,
Developing innovative community alternatives when family-based care is not an option; and
4) System level: education, anti-stigma efforts, and monitoring of institutional care when needed.

CORE SERVICES: Food and Shelter

These services are aimed to ensure that vulnerable children have nutritional resources similar to those of other children in their communities. Though conceived of as a time-limited strategy, these programs aim to leverage other partners and identify more sustainable solutions. The range of services might include:
1) Child level:
· Nutritional assessment and counseling,
· Supplementary feeding as Teule pays for meals for the children in the schools that they attend and provide nutritional supplements on a monthly basis to the child’s caregiver’s family.
· Links to other health and nutrition interventions;
Feeding in the Chombo cha Upendo home whereby Teule provide the children with all the meals.
2) caregiver/family level:
Training on nutrition, diet, and food preparation during monthly caregivers’ meetings;
3) Community level:
Community-based strategies to support the children where caregivers are encouraged to form caregivers’ groups and have vegetable gardens.

CORE SERVICES: Health Care

These services are aimed at meeting the health needs of children, The range of services includes:
1) Child level:
· Providing primary care for the children in our programs either directly especially for the ones in the rescue centre in Oloitokitok or through referrals to other organizations that provide medicare,
· Immunization,
· Treatment for children when they are sick,
· Ongoing treatment for HIV-positive children,
HIV prevention.
2) caregiver/family level:
· Teaching caregivers to effectively monitor health and seek care appropriately,
Involving caretakers in HIV prevention education
3) Community:
Training community volunteers, to refer children in family/household for health and social services as appropriate,

IDENTITY

Vision & Mission

Homeless Children International–Kenya (HCI-Kenya) is a Christian, non-profit, non-political, non-governmental organization (NGO) registered on March 28th, 1996, in Nairobi, Kenya, working with Orphaned and Vulnerable Children.
Vision :
To empower orphaned and vulnerable children to find dignity, maximize their potential, and discover the love of Jesus Christ.
Mission Statement
To share the love of Christ with orphaned and Vulnerable children by building relationships that instill the youth with hope for the future in a nurturing environment that supports excellence in education, career development, personal and spiritual growth.

Teule Kenya works in the following areas:
Nairobi slums' populations which do not have access to services and income generating options on a sustainable basis. These consist of Mathare, Kibera, Kawangware, Korogocho, Dandora, Huruma, Baba Dogo and Mukuru.
Oloitokitok District is found in the remote southern part of the Rift valley province. The District is predominantly inhabited by the Maasai community.

These two Communities grapple with the following challenges
1. Poverty due to limited resources.
2. Lack of basic infrastructure such as roads which limits income generation options although they are endowed with significant potentials in enterprise development.
3. Cultural practices that are detrimental to sustainable development programmes for example the practices of early marriage of young girls (minors) and Female circumcision which don’t support the inclusion of women and other disadvantages groups in society.
4. Most parts of the areas are agriculturally unproductive due to lack of rains/regular rains or farming space.
5. The HIV/AIDS prevalence in the areas is high and attributed to the cultural practices, high levels of illiteracy, high poverty levels and unequal distribution of resources.
6. Education is not emphasized by the locals due to lack of exposure and awareness. As a result of this children are not enrolled in schools hence girls are married off to old suitors soon after circumcision and boys