Where
Ruiru - a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.

What
Nairobi is full of street children - kids who live and sleep on the streets, begging and scavenging for food and scraps. Sanitation and health issues are inevitably very poor and the children are easy prey for pimps, dealers and criminals. Watu Wa Maana Street Children's Rehabilitation and Reintegration Centre sounds far more grand than it is. In 2004 Wanjiru, Lucy and a few others starting talking to the kids on the street and feeling lead by Jesus to do more. Soon they were housing a few. Then they met George, who instantly felt called to serve these children, and started, with God's help, to see each child recover from their trauma. As they have become more organised they have employed a social worker to help those who helps those who are doing well find a way to reintegrate into normal family life.

Who
When Stuart Boreham was in Nairobi at a conference at DC Kasarani (a large local Christian congregation) he met Wanjru & Lucy and they took him to Watu Wa Maana. He was instantly committed to find more prayers and financial supporters for this fantastic and needed work.

What can you do
£20 per month (70p per day!) covers most of the costs that Watu Wa Maana have for looking after a child.

Watu Wa Maana means Very Important People! So we call those in the centre VIP children.

Sponsoring the VIP Children
Just £20 per month (that's just 70p a Day) we can provide accommodation, food, clothing, bedding, provide some medical care and make a contribution towards the education for a child in the home. You can start sponsoring a child online using your credit card at our shop ... or fill in the standing order forms (click here to download the forms ) and send them by post. Then we will send you a photograph of your sponsored child and some details of their life. Your help will give them a future and a hope!

Apart from Grassroots sponsors (and others who give via Grassroots) the centre has little input other than local food and some business contributions. Even so they have made a home for almost 60 children. The centre is a secure loving home and the children are slowly being put back into education and into society. Those who have visited Watu Wa Maana say they have rarely seen such life and joy exhibited within such difficult conditions. These kids have very little indeed, but its so much more than that had before they came to the centre, and for that they are grateful.

Just over half of the children are aged between 5 and 12. There are others who just turn up in hope of getting some food, and the centre helps when it can.

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