Street Action's partner Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) is a pioneering local Kenyan NGO committed to working with street kids and and their families in Thika. With a key focus on prevention and intervention, AfCiC works directly on the streets as well as with the local community. AfCiC is developing a food and nutrition programme to reach out to 1,000 children in 2 schools to provide nutritional support, support school retention and reduce the number of children going to the streets.
There are macro and micro factors pushing children to the streets. The macro factors include poverty, HIV/AIDS, post election violence, rural -urban migration. Micro factors include family breakdown and step parenting, a precipitating push factor that prompts a child to leave home directly to the streets. In the above circumstances, Thika has over 140,000 Children and youth below 18 years, all struggling to grow up, of course under very limited resources including basic food and nutrition.
Our partner AfCiC has recognized the effectiveness of the nutrition improvement programme not only as a health intervention that addresses long term effects of malnutrition including stunted growth and wastage, but as an extremely essential intervention that addresses the human rights of the children to food enabling them to access other basic rights like education.
The provision of food to acutely vulnerable children in local schools is a key prevention tool for accessing vulnerable children access their basic rights to health and education. 1.Improve the nutrition status of 1,000 children by the end of 12 months 2.Support the retention of children in school by providing nutritional support for 12 months 3.Reduce the number of children going to the street as a result of hunger within 12 months 4.Provide 1,000 children with education support
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
