Educate & Empower 1200 Girls in the Nairobi Slums

Covid 19 or corona has also affected Kenya and the Mathare slums where Safe Spaces operates. The country is in a lockdown, but this is not working effectively. People in the slums simply cannot stay at home, otherwise they will starve to death. So, they try to find daily jobs in town. The Ely area where they normally find homes to do some day jobs, is now closed. Restaurants that normally feed the very poor with food that is left over, are now closed. All in all, these are disturbing times.

Safe Spaces is there to support the community as much as we can. Safe Spaces has taken the task to create awareness about the appropriate measures that need to be taken to prevent covid to spread or people to get infected by it:

- we go door by door to talk to the community. we distribute antisceptic bars and soaps.

- we hang posters in the slums with instructions how to wash your hands. even if clean water is not always a given.

- we make masks and distribute them when available as much as we can

- we help the children with the home schooling tasks. we do this either in the community or in our new library at the Safe Spaces premises. we respect the rules of social distancing. it is extremely important for the children to keep up with the school work in order for them not to get behind.

- the transportation costs have increased tremendously for our girls as they have to pay now dubbel fare in the busses as only 1 out of 2 seats is available but needs to be paid. this is very costly at the moment.

Thank you for supporting us to make sure we all stay safe and can continue to build a future for our community.

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