Prevention: breaking cycles of poverty and promoting Human Rights
Our programmes to break the cycle of poverty include:
Kenya Children's Legal Aid Work:
We have been operating since 2004 to provide legal assistance to vulnerable children and their families in Thika. The programme's services include:
- Provision of legal aid.
- Community education programmes.
- Advocacy on Law and Policy reform/research.
- Public interest cases.
School Feeding Programme:
We continued to play a crucial role in preventing children from going to the streets in search of food through our successful school feeding programmes. In 2007:
- 25200 school meals were prepared and eaten at Garissa Road Primary School since February, with an average of 140 receiving a free meal daily. Those provided with a meal were the most needy and vulnerable as identified by the teachers.
- 30010 school meals were prepared and eaten at St Patrick's Primary School in 2007, with over 24000 being provided free of charge and the others at a subsidised rate.
These programmes play an incredibly important role in keeping the most vulnerable children in Thika in school and off the streets. The programmes also help to improve school performance and retention. Their flaw is that we are still not feeding as many children as we should.
School Holiday Club:
Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) Holiday Club is a programme of activities during the school holidays for over 150 of the poorest school children in our partner primary school, St Patricks, in Thika. The children are in Classes 4 to 8 and aged 8 to around 14. At the Holiday Club the children attend lessons to revise their school work and prepare for the next year, learn new activities and have some fun. The Clubs are incredibly successful at ensuring that extremely vulnerable children have access to a safe environment and are educationally stimulated, fed and cared for during the long school summer holidays.
Promoting Human Rights
Human rights refer to the concept of all human beings having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality. AfCiC is fully committed to promoting human rights in all of its activities.
For more information about the international Declarations/Conventions, the principles of which we embed into our work at all levels, please review the following documents:
