Strategic Goal

 Improved education and skills training opportunities for vulnerable children and youth from Mathare, Korogoco and Huruma slums and promote their development as responsible Christian adults

Key Result areas and Activities

 The program will have three components or projects namely: Education and skills training, children rehabilitation and children Right Advocacy

 A. Education and Skills Training  Project

 The project will focus on sponsoring the children and youth to primary, secondary, Universities and middle level colleges and skills training. It will also focus on their social development through counselling and Christian teachings. The following are two key outputs for this project:  

Output: Increased access to quality education  , basic needs and social development by  vulnerable children

 Activities /strategies

• Identification and selection of the very vulnerable children and enrol them into the sponsorship project

• Provide full school fees for children in private secondary schools as those in government schools will receive subsidized fees as from January 2008 

• Provide funds to students in government schools as only tuition is being waived by the government other charges such as catering will remain

• Provide text books and learning materials  to all  children in both primary and secondary

• For very desperate cases , provide basic needs to the children and their families e.g improved housing  and clothing etc

• Provide guidance and counselling for effective social development

• Establish a fully equipped library to create  space for the children especially those in secondary schools

• Provide holiday tuition to enhance performance of the children in both secondary and primary schools

• Provide medical support i.e. treatment , screening and referrals for the children

• Organise children camps/seminars for their social development

• Facilitate Saturday bible club meetings  for Christian teachings

Output: Improved access to quality skills training and development of talents for vulnerable  youth   

Skills training will focus on the youth completing secondary education with a score of grade D and those who may fail to enrol in secondary schools.

 Activities /strategies

•  Identification and selection of youth for skills training

• Counselling and guidance on selection of skills training

• Provision of fees and basic support to the youth

• Develop a data base of quality colleges offering skills training  and seek for collaboration

• Monitor and follow-up the youths sponsored for the skills training

• Facilitate the youth completing skills based courses  to get into self –employment  by starting IGAs and joining  wage employment

3.      OUTPUT:  Access to higher education and quality jobs for the youth improved

At the moment the youth excelling from secondary schools are being supported by Leadership Development Program to acquire university education. This project has been institutionalised by Compassion International. RGDP will continue to graduate the youth into this program but due to likely high demand of sponsorship to universities and middle level colleges, a similar program will be packaged and launched. The following are key strategies:

Activities /strategies

 A project to facilitate youth acquire university and middle level college education will be packaged and launched

Resource mobilisation from donor partners and corporations in Kenya

Launch an Alumnae association of past graduates from the programs  who will support the program

Recruitment of  youth with higher qualifications of at least grade C and above and support them to acquire university  and middle level college education

Launch industrial and job placement services for the graduates  of this project and skills training

Organise  get together meetings between the project graduates and  CEOs of NGOs and corporations  as away of seeking their job placements and industrial attachments

B. Child Right Advocacy

The project will address issues of child abuse (physical and sexual violence and child labour) which are rampant in the area and sensitize the communities and law enforcers on child rights and the need to protect the children. The following are key strategies

OUTPUT Improved access to social justice and protection of children by the society and particularly in the operational areas

Activities /strategies  

• Design and  package a project on child right Advocacy targeting abused children  and launch it

• Carry out  sensitisation  of community members on child rights and disseminate the Children law   

• Identify , select and train community child monitors  who will be key in identifying abused children and  paralegals who will link the children with necessary support

• Identify abused children  and provide  necessary support

• Formalise working relationship with child right organisations

• Identify key law enforcers likely to support project initiative and train them on children law and sensitise them on child abuse. These will include , police and  chiefs among others

• The project will be actively engaged in national and international forums on children issues since such foras provide a broad platform for lobbying

• As a strategy of sensitising communities on child rights and abuses, campaigns with various themes will be organised.

• The project will work closely with the government especially the ministry dealing with children and support organisations such as the council of children.

C.     Children Rehabilitation project

The project has been recruiting street children who undergo rehabilitation for one year and thereafter they are sponsored for education at various levels. This project will be up scaled to reach out to more children in need of rehabilitation services. It will therefore not only deal with street children but other children in the slums and surrounding areas who require rehabilitation services before being supported to access education and training . The following are key strategies

OUTPUT Rehabilitation of children with anti-social behaviour leading to increased access to quality education and skills training

Activities /strategies

Undertake a rapid assessment to identify the government progress and strategies for rehabilitating the street children to inform the project’s  strategies

Identify and recruit children who require rehabilitation services

Identify talents with the children and nurture them.

Graduate the children rehabilitated to schools and skills training

Improve the living conditions of some children by providing them with basic needs

Economically empower parents/caregivers by supporting them to start income generating activities so as to improve the living conditions of the children

Improve the quality of counselling services by retraining the counsellors

Formalise networks with other organisations and link the children and youth for further support such as MYSA for sports development