In 2004, Michael Schneiders, after spending time with the poverty
stricken boys and girls living in the streets of Nairobi, started the
Cardinal Maurice Otunga Empowerment Center For Street Girls. The
center is located in the neighboring town of Karen, Kenya.
The support of this center has now become one of the charter
projects of KHOPE International.
The young teenage girls that Michael met are at high risk for
contracting and spreading HIV and AIDS. Many of them lived a life of
prostitution at the early age of twelve in an attempt to help support
their families. HIV and AIDS in Kenya are devastating. Today, Kenya
is trying to support 2,000,000 orphans mainly because of deaths
from HIV and AIDS.
The center opened in 2004 with 15 girls. Today the center houses 91
girls. These girls are out of the slums of Korogocho and Kibera and
now living in a safe and nurturing environment.
All the girls that come to the center are at risk girls, some have HIV
some do not. Most have lived a life of being raped and beaten. They
are invited to the center by social workers that meet the girls in local
hospitals or neighborhood clinics.
They enroll in a two year program where they are educated and
taught a trade so when their two years are complete they are ready
to step back into the community and either continue with their
education or apply their newly learned trade and become self
sufficient.
Your donation will help feed, house and educate these girls.
stricken boys and girls living in the streets of Nairobi, started the
Cardinal Maurice Otunga Empowerment Center For Street Girls. The
center is located in the neighboring town of Karen, Kenya.
The support of this center has now become one of the charter
projects of KHOPE International.
The young teenage girls that Michael met are at high risk for
contracting and spreading HIV and AIDS. Many of them lived a life of
prostitution at the early age of twelve in an attempt to help support
their families. HIV and AIDS in Kenya are devastating. Today, Kenya
is trying to support 2,000,000 orphans mainly because of deaths
from HIV and AIDS.
The center opened in 2004 with 15 girls. Today the center houses 91
girls. These girls are out of the slums of Korogocho and Kibera and
now living in a safe and nurturing environment.
All the girls that come to the center are at risk girls, some have HIV
some do not. Most have lived a life of being raped and beaten. They
are invited to the center by social workers that meet the girls in local
hospitals or neighborhood clinics.
They enroll in a two year program where they are educated and
taught a trade so when their two years are complete they are ready
to step back into the community and either continue with their
education or apply their newly learned trade and become self
sufficient.
Your donation will help feed, house and educate these girls.
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