Children's Garden Home is a place for all.

Daddy Moses and Mum Sylvia run the home like a family set up. They are the parents to the children, while their team of staff are the uncles and aunts. Together, they nurture the children like their own with love and care, and provide them with the basic needs of food and shelter. They children live together like brothers and sisters, with the older ones tending to the younger ones. Every older child is assigned a younger child to take charge of that includes the responsibility to bath, clothe, feed and care him/her. They sleep in dormitories, take turns to prepare meals, dine as a bunch in the dining hall, study, play and laugh together. Every morning, they would undertake household duties in teams led by the older kids. They run the home, period.

Children's Garden Home is truly a place that the children and staff feel belonged to. Everyone is a member of this big family. That is why it is called a home.

A SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL WISDOM

Education provides the most sustainable human capital for gainful employment and has been a key determinant in the successful rehabilitation of most former destitute children. Education empowers, saves lives and builds the future.

As many of our children come from a background of much suffering and traumas, we begin with careful rehabilitation for a progressive transformation. Regardless of age, the children will then begin their primary education. Our school also provides free education to over 150 children from the surrounding slums and disadvantaged community, who attend school mainly due the free lunch that we provide.

Besides academic lessons, we place special emphasis on spotting the talents in every child and unleashing the full potential in him/her. Thus our school program spans a wide spectrum that includes traditional dance, music making, football, farming, animal husbandry, etc.

In 2008, our pioneer class sat for their KCPE Exams with the first pupil scoring 426 marks and 9 others scored over 300 marks out of total 500 marks.

In 2009, we achieved a marvelous result of having 3 pupils above 350 and 10 above 300, and the rest above 230 marks.

Out of 31 pupils who sat for KCPE Exams in 2010, 5 scored 300 and above marks, and 11 scored above average 250 marks to join high school.

As our children progressed, we wanted to provide them with secondary education to equip them for better chance of employability and self-reliance. So in 2010, we started a secondary school with 3 classrooms housed temporarily within our accommodation block.

In 2011, we had sufficient fund from donors to lay only the foundation of a secondary school block. We decided to build our dream, bit by bit. Over the next 4 years to 2015, thanks to numerous kind donors, we erected a secondary school block for Form 1-3, and provided school uniform for all secondary students to give them a sense of diginity.

In 2016, we finally had the science laboratory building. It was a boost to the morale and confidence of the students. We had designed this laboratory block to be possible to have a second storey. Our dream is to have a meditation hall at the second level in the near future.

In 2018, we completed building all secondary classrooms and the laboratory. Thanks to the staff of Safaricom, we constructed for the first time a proper boys dormitory. Thanks to the Jacoba van Wassenaer Foundation, Netherlands, we built our first ever proper nursery hall.

Our wish now is to construct a single storey primary school block that will include a proper teacher's room. Our vision is to provide quality nursery-primary-secondary education for our children.

WHAT'S A DAY LIKE IN OUR HOME & SCHOOL?

HELP BUILD US A HOME AND SCHOOL

We welcome donation in cash and kind, sponsorship of children's education and the school upkeeping, and gifts of any kind.

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Ksh.300,000 /
US$3,000
Feeds ALL Children in the Home for 1 Month