Eastleigh programs

The Monday mothers program has been growing. Most of the them are learning to depend on themselves and not to relay on other people. This year the team is encouraging them to work and learn to appreciate what God has blessed them with. In two months, there has been a job from the area chief known as 'Kazi kwa vijana' (work for the youth) most of them have registered. The only requirement is to have a National Identity Card.They have managed to meet some of their needs. The number of mothers with HIV/AIDS, has increased too and most are week and cannot do jobs that involve a lot of washing because this brings their CD4 count down i.e their immunity drops. Others do refuse to be tested and if they are, they do not take drugs in the right way. The teenage boys program has been growing in numbers,they range from 18 to 25 in number. They had a soccer match with another organization that deals with streets kids, and it was really fun. This year the ministry will be taking in five of them to the boarding program in Kamulu farm. Towards the end of this month there will be a camp on 28th to 31st where they will go and learn and the five will be picked out from them. The girls program has not picked up in number, but we have to network with other organizations to get more girls into boarding program. The older girls do come to the mothers program and they are taught together with the single mothers. The older boys are doing well in their soccer matches.There are 22 of them who have registered for Identity Cards, although the process is very slow but they will get them.

Catherine, Millicent, and Elizabeth are doing well, especially in the process of changing their behaviors. Millicent is 18 years now, and she will be doing her eighth grade exam by the end of this year. Catherine and Elizabeth, who are also 18 years, had their age assessment done.

After Catherine’s father passed on, the rest of the family looked for her to find out where she attends school. They had never done so when the father was alive. Before the father died, he owned two shanty houses at Mukuru Kayaba slums. He wrote a will stating the houses would belong to Catherine. She has a brother who never took care of their father; even when the father died he was nowhere to be found. It was not till later that he appeared to claim the two houses. In the written will it is stated clearly: if the brother tries to take the houses from her, Catherine has the authority of reporting him to the police.