Pastor Joshua Kirani’s Street Work:
Since 2006, Pastor Joshua Kirani has been heading the Grace Empowerment Programme in Kenya. He has been doing some tremendous work towards rescuing and rehabilitating street youth in Nairobi, Kenya.
Pastor Joshua Preaching to Street Youth at a Base Camp
With your help, Pastor Joshua has been able to rescue hundreds of street boys in Nairobi providing them with:
Despite the strides made with rescue and rehabilitation, re-integration has had its challenges given the limitations of the half-way house. The semi-permanent structure has limited space and resources; and in order that the street youth receive a longer time for rehabilitation these issues are all vital.
Currently, the Half-Way House can only accommodate a maximum of 4 boys at a time for a few weeks before they have to leave for a new set of beneficiaries given the large numbers on the waiting list.
Half-Way House
To extend the process of rehabilitation and support re-integration, IN UK and IN Kenya are partnering with Pastor Joshua to build a permanent rehabilitation centre (called the Talent and Leadership Centre). This will form the basis for up to 15 boys at a time and over a hundred boys in the next 5 years to receive a better quality and continuation of care.
It will serve a solid base which will be well staffed with a Counsellor, Teacher and Social workers, following through with activities that will support the restoration of street youth.
Activities such as:
Some of Key Outcomes for the Street Youth will be:
Street Youth Learning Carpentry
This will ensure that young people will be motivated to break detrimental addictions and be restored as individuals who can engage with their families and society.
The future we want for the street youth is for them to be rescued, undergo total rehabilitation, and be re-integrated back to their families and into society.
We want each boy who goes through the Leadership and Talent Centre’s Rehabilitation Programme to stand on his two feet in a skilled trade or education, empowered to provide a sustainable income for himself and for the vulnerable family they come from where possible. This begins with training at the centre to master a craft or skill to use for their life beyond the haven of this centre.
A percentage of the running costs for the centre will be generated locally through activities around crop and livestock farming.
In the long run, Grace Empowerment (GE) plans to extend the centre to build in a local resort on the land from which rentals of the rooms should provide a higher local income generation. The resort will also be a training platform for the boys in hospitality which is a thriving sector in Kenya.
GE and IN Kenya are confident that many of the boys will be able to get apprenticeships or jobs in the hospitality industry once they leave the centre. Some may be able to open and manage their own businesses in this industry.
Can you help towards building the Leadership and Talent Centre to transform the lives of street boys in Kenya?
We are very thankful for your support so far as we have raised enough to be able to purchase a site for the land to build this Talent Centre.
We now need to raise funds for its construction.
Together we can restore street children back to their families and to brighter futures.
£370
would pay for fire extinguishers for the centre
£790
would pay for the electrical light bulbs
£3,290
would pay for water connection to the Kenya water board
£4,110
would pay for kitchen appliances and beddings
£4,280
would help us to get going with the architectural drawings, quantity surveying and government land fees
£6,270
would pay for the septic tank to set up a water recycling system
£9,755
would pay for all the water tanks and installation
£35,375
would pay for the installation of a borehole system for water
£38,280
would cover the running costs for one year
£47,750
would build the administration block, kitchen and first part of the centre
£56,600
would pay for construction of the second phase of the centre – the main rehabilitation centre
£64,000
would furnish the main rehab centre
No amount is too small to donate. Please get in touch if you’d like to know more.
As a big new project, we need to reach more people to raise interest and support to make this possible. Could you help us do this by introducing us to your church, school, company or friends? We’d love to chat about this, please get in touch if so.
