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Huband Cradle of Hope Children's Home ( HCHCH ) is an initiative founded by a small group of people responding to an overwhelming HIV / AIDS crisis in Kenya. It offers desperately needed care for orphaned / vulnerable children. Today, HCHCH hosts 20 children from the slums of Mathare, Dagoretti, Dandora, Dunia, Kayole & the streets of Nairobi.
Many of these children have been together since 2003, under the non-governmental organization Positive Education International ( PEI ). PEI was primarily a feeding and education centre. When 17 of the children utilizing the services starting sleeping there, having nowhere else to go, its founders realized that the community needed to address a different crisis - that of the homeless child. The future of PEI would be HCHCH.
HCHCH was registered by the Kenya Ministry of Home Affairs in 2007 as Charitable Children's Institution #000322. Its aim is to create and maintain a stable, safe and nurturing home for children affected by AIDS and violence, taking full responsibility for their welfare until they reach adulthood.
The range of needs of the children residing at HCHCH vary and include the following:
Basic necessities of life: food, water, shelter, clothing, health / dental care, education and love
Psychological counseling
Ongoing search for living relatives
Facilitating contact with living relatives
Life skills lessons in hygiene, nutrition, education, health and dental care, illness prevention, social interaction
Attention to areas of self expression, development of interests, self awareness and esteem building
Assisted teaching for those with intellectual and learning disabilities
Huband Cradle of Hope Children's Home has a vision. At present,
HCHCH has the capacity and means to support 20 children. With subsequent funding, it will open its doors and hearts to the many more children of Kenya who deserve a chance to be all they can be - a chance to simply live and learn to embrace life.
HCHCH is making a difference. Small perhaps in the big picture. Huge in the eyes of the children it cradles.
For more information, and to meet the children of
Huband Cradle of Hope, please visit our website: www.cradlekenya.org.