Meru Children's Home and Township Programme


Meru is about 150 miles north of Nairobi and not far from Mount Kenya. It is estimated that there are about 1000 children living on the streets of Meru town. The Meru projects supported by Karibuni Trust are helping many of these children.

The Trust is supporting a residential home in Kaaga for 32 children, who were on the streets, and a feeding/teaching programme at the Town Feeding Centre for 80-100 children. Many of the children are sponsored by the Trust into school, vocational training or secondary school.

Meru Township Programme

Based in the Catholic Consolata Mission School, the project feeds the children 6 days a week. Many of the children are sponsored by the Trust into school and have been provided with uniforms. Six children have been sponsored into Vocational Training and several into Secondary School.

The feeding centre has the use of premises in the school where 2 dormitories and a kitchen have been made available. A Karibuni working party (for details see here) scrubbed, and repainted these rooms making them clean and bright for the children.

Meru Children's Home

The Trust shares the costs of running the home for street children with the Methodist Church in Kenya. Karibuni sponsors the social workers salary and some of the children into secondary school and vocational training/college.

The children's links with their extended families, with whom they had lost contact are increasing and they are encouraged to visit them. This is essential in helping them have a sense of "who they are" and "where they come from" and is improving their sense of self worth.

The Childrens Home is the first in the Methodist Church in Kenya and was opened on the 14th. November 1999. The children live in four semi-detached cottages each with a housemother. The recent working parties from Karibuni scrubbed, repainted and rewired the large dining/common room at the childrens home.

Mwithumwiru Primary School

The Trust is helping Mwithumwiru School to feed destitute children, including 250 AIDS orphans, so that they can go to school without being hungry. The school has started a Day Secondary School enabling these children to continue their education, the Government has recognised it and is providing teachers

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