PLCC has set up a children’s home located along Masai Lodge Road in Ongata Rongai, 20 km from Nairobi City Centre.
PLCC is catering to a vision for own life with self-confidence. By doing this, PLCC releases from them the fear of losing their livelihood. Freed from this pressure the girls develop vitality.
Schooling and professional training strengthen confidence in their ability and lead to an independent life. The girls also learn life skills and help with housework.
As soon as the basic needs are fixed, love, appreciation, friendships, respect, trust in God, and psychological counseling boost the girls’ self-esteem. Building on the girls’ talents their growth is individually nurtured and attended to.
Whenever problems occur in school we try to find out the reason and find a solution together with the child. The girls learn to acknowledge their problems and needs, and should expect that the solution is to be found with them. Even trauma can be recognized, spoken out and treated with patience and understanding. Strengthened, the girls go step by step into independence and learn how to be responsible for themselves and the community.
PLCC is expanding and strengthening the means of reaching these goals by building a shelter. In order to react on the growing number of street children and orphans during the last three years, we intend to have two houses, each to accommodate four ‘families’ with twelve girls and a foster mother; Kindergarten, a school for children with special needs and a vocational training centre will be built and also opened for external students to avoid separation and to contribute to the running costs.
We are convinced that by operating outside the slums, shall easier the work of helping these children in changing their attitude and behavior, participating in Christianity and mostly creating a vision for own life with self confidence.