ELDORET RESCUE CENTRE
Life has no spare n should not
be taken as a spacemen
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by Gregory murithi
2014
LIVE on LIFE_ELDORET RESCUE CENTRE narration script.
The subject of street children is a big issue in many developing countries. A lot is being done to
solve and enable them enjoy the basic human rights. Rescue centre (RC) Eldoret is an institution
that has been set up by non-government organization NGO to rehabilitate street children. The
center’s objective is to help the children be able to fit in the society. To accomplish this, the
centre has developed for them vocational training (for girls), educational (non-formal) cleaning
the dormitories and compound, games and counseling. These are meant to keep them busy and
out of streets. Although these activities are in place, the quality and the intensity of them are
lacking. Lack of resources (human and material) has been one of the major challenges.
The most prevalent disease among these children was upper respiratory tract infection (URTI).
The most prevalent disease categories were skin, respiratory, injuries, eye and dental diseases.
main causes of morbidity wen: respiratory diseases, skin diseases and injuries
The Eldoret children rescue Centre at kamukunji (registered under children Community Society)
was started in December 2001 and registered in July 2002 with the aim of helping poor children
and persons below age of 18 years come out of the street (Perry 2004)
The objectives of the centre among others are:
1. Provision of accommodation, care and protection of the children
2. Rehabilitation of the children by:
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Keeping them off drugs
b) Stopping them from running away or being wild
c) Making them like leaning
d)Providing them with survival skills
e)Counsel them
3. Provision of non-formal education. both academic and practical courses
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Rehabilitation takes a period of at least six months depending on the seriousness of addiction to
drugs or to other harmful substances they use, attitudes towards life, level of education etc.
During this time, they are counseled and guided on how to become useful citizen. They are
confined in one place with a better environment than the street. They are given food, a bed,
clothes and friendly environment.
The Rehabilitation Programme Include:
a) Keeping them of the drug
(b) Stopping them from running away or being wild
(c) Making them begin to like learning in the classroom
(d) Placing them in permanent homes
(e) Providing them with skills through vocational training.
The centre has organized activities to keep the children busy at all times .The activities are
organized in a manner that would help the children to be self-disciplined and responsible. Some
of these activities include:
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Cleaning the dormitory, kitchen & classroom
Collecting paper & cleaning toilets
Taking meals; breakfast, lunch and supper together
Attending classes
Vocational training; Tailoring, Knitting & Hairdressing.
Games
Home science (how to manage homes. They also take care of the babies at the centre)
Although the center is striving to improve the lives of the children, there are challenges that seem
to hinder the purpose of its existence.
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Teachers:
 Many of them are not professionally trained to teach
 They are not consistent in their visit to the centre
 They are few and therefore some classes are never taught
 They can only teach the subjects they understand. Some subjects are given less
attention
 Some classes stay for long time without teachers.
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Resources:
 The centre does not have sufficient text books
 Lack of library; the children need library with story books
 Some older children especially boys idle around and have nothing much to do.
They need tools for vocational.
Food provision
HIV/AIDS:
 Some of the children who come to the centre have been found to be HIV positive
while others are orphaned due to HIV and AIDS. These children need counseling
on HIV/AIDS and how to cope with it, but they lack counselors who can carry out
the task .This makes the other children be vulnerable to infection
Recommendations
1. Establishing resource centre- improvement of the education of those who have been
rescued from street. If these ones are helped, they can reduce the number of those on the
street and also influence those who are still in the streets. Establishing a resource centre
(library) where these children can be accessing books that would help their literacy as
well as keeping them busy.
2. Strengthen HIV and AIDS education. This can be done by providing information and
inculcating skills that will help self-protection and promote desirable behavior. Those
children who are orphaned due to HIV and AIDS that befell the parents, education can
assist them cope with grief and loss.
3. Assisting in the vocational Training.
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