St Paul's Nursery School Launch
21 January 2011
January 10, 2011...Fifty children housed at the St. Paul’s Children home in Ongata Rongai will benefit from Schooling and feeding programme supported by the G4S Kenya Security Services Group.
In December G4S commissioned a Nursery school unit in efforts to achieve self sustenance for the school going children aged between 1 to 17 years.
The home will among others receive meals for the mostly young children aged below five years old. This is part of an ongoing CSR support programme by the company for the home and which has been in place since 2007.
The programme has since seen G4S assist the home to start a chicken rearing project for revenue generation while providing nutrition to the children. The project was commissioned in 2009 by the celebrated Ethiopian long distance runner Haile Gerbreselassie and who is the global ambassador for the G4S 4Teen youth programme.
“To date G4S has invested over Kshs 2 million in construction and maintenance of the home since the children attend schools in the surrounding community. In this regard the support required for school fees can now be channelled to other needs at the home”, said John Wheater the Managing Director G4S Kenya Limited.
This support has been in part from donations of various amounts from G4S Netherlands and G4S 4teen. St Paul’s Children’s Home for orphaned and abandoned children is located at Ongata Rongai, about 10km from Nairobi.
G4S hopes to increase the number of classes to accommodate the children into a primary and even a secondary school as they mature. The home, which was established in 1999 with a feeding programme for 80 needy children from nearby slums, is run by Mrs Margaret Mbote.
“At present, St Paul’s Home supports an additional 20 children in nearby homes and who face challenges such as single parent home most often only mothers, some of whom are down with HIV/Aids”, she said.
This is among the challenges facing children in the area of Rongai that faces an increasing number of abandoned or orphaned children, lack of School fees. Mrs Mbote said the home would need more partnerships to help in medical, clothing and the housing needs of the children.
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