G4S Supports Kabete Remand Home

Working together to help break the cycle of poverty and crime

Children at Kabete Remand Home in the outskirts of Nairobi got a rare treat when G4S staff visited them to mark the Day of the African Child on June 16th, 2010. As the name suggests, Kabete Remand Home is home to children who have been arrested for committing various crimes around Nairobi.

But that is just one side of the story. Many of the children aged between 3 and 16years are victims of neglect. Orphaned, poor, hungry and cold, many of the children turn to the streets to survive. Caught in the cycle of street life, they often end up in court charged with various crimes and vagrancy. Because they cannot fit in the normal remand prisons where adults are confined, they are sent to Kabete Remand Home for children.

After being released from the remand home, many of the children have nowhere to go. Many cannot return home (if there is one) for fear reprisals or abuse. They end up in the streets and end up in crime. G4S is planning a long term partnership with the Remand Home to provide a better atmosphere in Kabete and to help with the rehabilitation of the children to break the cycle of poverty and crime.

Through its CSR programme, G4S has partnered with Kabete Remand Home and the neighbouring Kabete Rehabilitation Centre to provide food, learning tools and other material support for the children. On the Day of the African Child, the G4S Regional Managing Director for East Africa, Mr Adam Miller and the G4S Kenya Managing Director visited the remand home and donated a computer, a computer desk, food and drinks to the children.