Street & Children Bible Club
Bible Club Kids getting Lunch.
Bringing Hope to Kisumu Slums/Street Children Project is located within Nyamasaria centre along Kisumu - Nairobi road. Nyamasaria just like other informal settlements in Kisumu suffers from high rate of HIV/AIDS and hence have many orphans as a result. The project’s main targets are school dropouts, vulnerable children, and AIDS orphaned children living within the community with no hope for the future. The project brings them together with an aim of teaching them an improved way of life, demonstrated through Bible teachings and many other activities. We intensify Christian teaching among the children and supplement this with psychosocial support to the children and their families. This is done by a team of trained and motivated DCM staff. Currently the program has enrolled about 70 children, meeting weekly for Bible lessons, drama and music. The number of orphans in Kenya has alarmingly increased within the past years. This is why these children do not have many possibilities of living safely and most of them are alienated from the society, ending up as street children. Special thanks goes to Sharing Concern Group, English Speaking Congregation, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Geneva.
Nyamasaria Children Bible Club, Kisumu, Kenya sings in praise of the Mighty Name that has brought them this far.
In 2005 Mt. Zion Lutheran Church and the LWML Loving Hearts Society sponsored the first DCM initiative on Kisumu Street work to help serve the hundreds of street children who require initiatives to help them regain confidence in life and bring them hope through the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ; providing them temporary shelter, food, and occupational training. I am glad to let you know that in 2007, through this initiative, 4 street boys join Othoro High School, 2 boys went to primary boarding. We sincerely thank Sandra Haugner for connecting us to Loving Hearts LWML Society at Mt. Zion Richmond, California who began this initiative that now has evolved
Photos on this page by Elise Poche’