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One euro per week booked will be donated to The
Nest Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya. If you would like to
help in any way, please contact me.
Susan Dixon
sdixon@tnet.co.uk
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“THE NEST„ OUT – REACH PROGRAMME FOR MOTHERS &
CHILDREN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW Whom do we assist? 1. Children up to
an intake age of 12 years who have been abandoned because their
mothers had not been given enough time to place them in safe custody
at the time of their arrest 2. Children in need of protection (found
in Police cells, remand etc) 3. Infants who accompany their
incarcerated mothers
Mothers with young children who are in conflict
with the law and those who have been released after having served
their sentence What do we want to achieve? Our professed aim is to
rescue and improve the general living conditions of affected children
during the period of imprisonment of their mothers (single fathers)
and to rehabilitate and re-integrate those children and their mothers
with their families and society at large.
How we work:
We seek to accomplish our mission by:
- providing material assistance in emergency
cases
- offering counselling services, spiritual and
moral support to incarcerated mothers
- giving family counselling to affected
families, renewing (where necessary), & maintaining family ties
- organizing legal assistance
- offering civic education & literacy courses
- providing active assistance in bureaucratic
matters
- organizing economic empowerment to released
mothers (credit schemes, job listing, training courses etc)
- offering accommodation to mother & child
after release for a max. of 6 weeks in emergency cases at our
Half-Way-House
- searching & rescuing abandoned children of
imprisoned mothers (single
- fathers) from street life and slum areas
(toughest part of the job!!!)
- maintaining or where necessary creating a
bond between the imprisoned mother and her child
- offering educational stimulation (mobile kit)
and basic medical care for young children who accompany their
incarcerated mothers
- providing holistic care at „The Nest Home“ in
emergency situations for the accompanying infants of incarcerated
mothers
- providing holistic care at „The Nest Home“
and formal education for abandoned children up to an intake age of
12 years while their mothers are in prison inclusive
- offering hospice services (AIDS)
- undertaking home visits and giving family
counselling with an aim of re-integrating children and mothers with
their extended families
- creating awareness about the plight of
children & petty crime offenders in prison or remand & fighting
against stigmatisation
- creating awareness particularly among the law
enforcing officials on children’s rights and special needs through
seminars, work shops and our participatory action-oriented mode of
intervention
- organizing trainings, seminars etc for law
enforcing officials in order to identify their needs & resolve
problems
- organizing awareness campaigns towards social
and economic integration of released offenders
- encouraging & stipulating self-help groups
for affected families All the activities are meant to be carried out
in close co-operation with the Officials of Prison
Head Quarters, Probation Services, Children’s
Court and Children’s Department and other NGO’s in the field and
Churches in order to effect the expected improvements. This is
sometimes a real challenge! The “NEST” plays an important role by
serving as the missing link between Children’s Department and Prison
Department. Currently responsibilities are divided between Prison
Department (for children who accompany their mothers in prison) and
Children’s Department which is not in the interest of the child and
makes monitoring of the individual cases difficult. To date we care
for 78 children from newborns to 17 years old at the NEST HOME in
Limuru. Their mothers or fathers are in prisons all over Kenya. The
Project also employs a Nurse who monitors the welfare of about 50
accompanying children at Lang’ata Women Prison.
The “NEST” is not affiliated to any organization
but depends entirely on private donations from within Kenya and
friends abroad. We have no time to organize lots of fashionable
workshops & seminars to only talk ABOUT the plight of these children!
We talk WITH them, we give them LOVE and CARE and try to HEAL all the
wounds which they have suffered on body and soul!
“THE NEST„ Children’s Home Charitable Trust,
P.O. Box 108, Limuru, Kenya.
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