Maximum Miracle Centre - Chilrens Home



			Please click here to view full Information on the Childrens home To support the children’s home, please click on the donate button below.	VISION To see that children enjoy their rights and benefits as stipulated in United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and Children’s Act so that they can be like children from stable, capable and caring families. MISSION STATEMENT Rehabilitate the street children both boys and girls, ages 5-18 years while keeping in touch with their parents/guardians in preparation to reuniting them back to them and sensitizing the community on the different forms of child rights violations so that they can be well prepared to care for and protect it’s children. BACKGROUND INFORMATION It is estimated that there are at least 300,000 children living and working on the streets in Kenya. Over 50 % of them are concentrated in and around the capital Nairobi. A survey conducted in 1998 established that the number in Nairobi alone is well beyond the 150,000 mark. The available data is however based on very restricted sample surveys and therefore inconclusive. Street- children is a social term that refers to those children for whom the street has replaced the family and the home as the focal point of their existence and communal interaction. The children live in circumstances devoid of any protection, supervision or direction from responsible adults. Surveys in this area have identified the following four primary clusters of children whose existence revolves around streets: Children on the streets, or those who maintain good family ties while out there, they often return home in the evening after spending the day begging, working or engaging in petty offences on the streets Children of the streets. These have loose family contacts and spend some nights or days or part of the day on the streets and occasionally go back home. Children who are completely detached from their families, leading a gang life in makeshift shelters Children of street families. This is the recent cluster to emerge and consists of children who are born and bred on the streets. They know no other home. CAUSES OF STREET CHILDREN Single parenthood: Children of single parents whose basic needs are not met go to the streets to borrow money to buy food. School dropouts: This is as a result of expensive primary school education, which many parents cannot afford. Child abuse: Children who are abused physically or emotionally by their parents/guardians run to the streets to seek refuge. Child Labor: Sometimes poor parents use their children as a source of income. They are sent to the streets to borrow money and take it back to their parents in the evening. STATEMENT OF NEED Today, street children constitute one of the largest categories of Children in Need of Special Protection (CNSP), second only to HIV/AIDS orphans and victims. These children encounter enormous challenges each passing day as they battle for their bare survival. They exist in sub-human, with absolutely no access to even the irreducible minimum of rights that are fundamental to human dignity. Not only are they locked out of the social-service mainstream, but also their very basic right to life is at risk each day. Police harassment, sexual molestation, economic exploitation and the serious risk of disease stock them daily. They also have to contend with an overly hostile society that regards them more as deviants than as children requiring care and protection. The government has not evolved in any tangible policy to tackle what now ranks as a national crisis. It is critical for every Kenyan to appreciate that with their numbers on the rapid increase, street children are likely to continue suffering severe deprivations and gross violations of their rights, unless drastic measures are taken to ameliorate their plight. The problem might in future assume a very serious security dimension in the country. Due to the above-mentioned problems, Maximum Miracle Center Church intervened by creating a home in a bid to rehabilitate the street children so that they can enjoy their rights and benefits like children from stable, capable and caring families. The Church was motivated by the Love of God to have compassion for the least/poor in the society. OBJECTIVES We base our goal on Isaiah 58:6-7 *To loose the chains of injustice* *To untie the cords of the yoke* *To set the oppressed free* *And break every yoke* *Share what we have with the needy* *To care for the needy* To provide children with basic needs i.e. food, clothing and shelter. To rehabilitate and reunite children to their families. To sensitize the community about the child rights violations so that they can be in a position to take care and protect their children. Bring up a disciplined generation that fear God and shun evil Provide good quality education to the poor children To reach the parents and the community with gospel through the children Raise up healthy children ACTIVITIES Children are taught informally within the Home while others are in boarding schools Continuous counseling of the children and their parents within the Home. Crusades and Christian campaigns to share the Word of God Music concerts and Poems by children Sensitization on Child Rights to the community Vocational Training where children are taught livelihood skills EXPECTED OUTCOMES WITHIN 2 (TWO) YEARS We expect the health of the children to have improved We expect to have reunited some children with their parents Children who joined the Home without knowledge of reading and writing will be able to do so. We expect most of the children to be disciplined in all areas e.g. showing respect to other people and loving one another. We expect the children to have identified a livelihood skill, which they can specialize in and hence be self-reliant OTHER INTENDED PROJECTS School within the project Dormitories for girls Fully equipped and staffed health facility within the project Water Project/borehole Vocational Training Center SOURCES OF RECURRENT Contribution from the church members Well-wishers CURRENT NEEDS School fees for the children in formal schools and colleges Food (balanced diet) Beds and Beddings Stationeries for those in the informal school within the project i.e. Exercise books, pencils, crayons, biros, textbooks Sports equipment and kits Clothing School uniform A bigger piece of land SUSTAINABILITY Poultry keeping whereby the produce can be sold and bring an income and others used as a source of proteins for good health of the children Cattle keeping - the milk can be sold and some to be consumed by the children. Producing music C.Ds’ from the children choir which can be sold and bring some income to the project Marketing the artwork of the children who are gifted in the art design.