1.0 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Bethsaida Community Foundation is located along Githurai 44. It is a community based, non-governmental, non-profit making charitable organization for street children, orphans and vulnerable children, less fortune and abandoned children, abused, desperate and neglected children regardless of their religion, sex, colour or tribe.
They assist and give the children parental love, spiritual care, rehabilitation and offer formal education to nourish their potential capabilities and personal capacity building and through other myriad of activities such as non-formal learning.
They provide residential care and rehabilitation for street children, who are less fortune and parentless children especially those who are affected …show more content…
It was in 2009 when the Centre was started, it was through visiting street children in dump sites and river banks where they used to swim that the all idea of establishing the Centre came about.
It was through relationships and negotiations with them and thereafter, some of them accepted to join primary school. In the year 2010, fourteen of them joined four different primary schools namely; Githurai 6, Kahawa 3, Mahiga 3 and Ngomono 2.
The vision was then later advanced and led to the construction of mud structures as a school and Centre, because what was intended for the children was not fulfilled.
In early January 2011, Bethsaida school was established with thirty four rehabilitated children. In 2012 there was even more advancement and they managed to build one dormitory to hold twelve girls and an executive office. Currently the Centre has about one hundred and thirty children offered with education, psychosocial support, feeding programme, etc with about thirty five orphaned boarders.
All these efforts have been fully achieved through well-wishers and giving back to the community programme carried out by different responsible citizens and corporates, such as USIU-Africa, Kenyatta University, Nairobi University, Biashara Pamoja Investments and many …show more content…
Most of all I have learned to be happy in life no matter what problems and difficulties you face in life just remember there are people suffering more than you and I learned this through the disadvantaged children at the Centre who usually wear a smile on their face no matter what.
3.0 CHALLENGES FACING THE SITE
Like any other institutions Bethsaida is also faced with a number of challenges as follows;
1. The institution mostly runs because of its well-wishers who donate what they can for the day to day running and maintenance. As the country’s economic depression increases the number of well-wishers also decreases. The community as a whole should be urged to help out in such initiatives as a way of giving back to society.
2. They do not have a maximum security whereby there is a hired guide watching over them and therefore people easily come in and go and this can cause theft if they are not careful things might start disappearing.
3. They use fire woods to cook and therefore the place is usually much filled with smoke that sometimes it creates breathing problems for us and even for the
Bethsaida Community Foundation is located along Githurai 44. It is a community based, non-governmental, non-profit making charitable organization for street children, orphans and vulnerable children, less fortune and abandoned children, abused, desperate and neglected children regardless of their religion, sex, colour or tribe.
They assist and give the children parental love, spiritual care, rehabilitation and offer formal education to nourish their potential capabilities and personal capacity building and through other myriad of activities such as non-formal learning.
They provide residential care and rehabilitation for street children, who are less fortune and parentless children especially those who are affected …show more content…
It was in 2009 when the Centre was started, it was through visiting street children in dump sites and river banks where they used to swim that the all idea of establishing the Centre came about.
It was through relationships and negotiations with them and thereafter, some of them accepted to join primary school. In the year 2010, fourteen of them joined four different primary schools namely; Githurai 6, Kahawa 3, Mahiga 3 and Ngomono 2.
The vision was then later advanced and led to the construction of mud structures as a school and Centre, because what was intended for the children was not fulfilled.
In early January 2011, Bethsaida school was established with thirty four rehabilitated children. In 2012 there was even more advancement and they managed to build one dormitory to hold twelve girls and an executive office. Currently the Centre has about one hundred and thirty children offered with education, psychosocial support, feeding programme, etc with about thirty five orphaned boarders.
All these efforts have been fully achieved through well-wishers and giving back to the community programme carried out by different responsible citizens and corporates, such as USIU-Africa, Kenyatta University, Nairobi University, Biashara Pamoja Investments and many …show more content…
Most of all I have learned to be happy in life no matter what problems and difficulties you face in life just remember there are people suffering more than you and I learned this through the disadvantaged children at the Centre who usually wear a smile on their face no matter what.
3.0 CHALLENGES FACING THE SITE
Like any other institutions Bethsaida is also faced with a number of challenges as follows;
1. The institution mostly runs because of its well-wishers who donate what they can for the day to day running and maintenance. As the country’s economic depression increases the number of well-wishers also decreases. The community as a whole should be urged to help out in such initiatives as a way of giving back to society.
2. They do not have a maximum security whereby there is a hired guide watching over them and therefore people easily come in and go and this can cause theft if they are not careful things might start disappearing.
3. They use fire woods to cook and therefore the place is usually much filled with smoke that sometimes it creates breathing problems for us and even for the