Orphanage Nyamira

In 2008 a third orphanage was opened in Nyamira (situated in the west of Kenya) for the victims of the riots caused by the presidential elections at the beginning of 2008.

The children grow up and are educated in a traditional Kenyan way. Kenyan “mamas” help to educate the children. Important issues are that they learn how to work together, become more independent and go to school. In Kenya education is the key to life, to the future and to getting a job. To provide a good education the orphanages are having their own nursery and primary schools in their compound. The older children are attending a secondary school/college outside of the children’s centers. After school education they go on job training so that afterwards they can find a job in order to live on their own and be independent. In this way these children help to build up Kenya. The first children of the children’s center in Ruiru who completed their education already got good jobs and are succeeding.