Our vision is to empower children and youth throughout Kenya by creating opportunities to achieve the fullest potential in life.Currently we are operating two children homes, Gathiga and Ebenezer Hope homes in Kenya and a street feeding project.
Tuwape Tumanini has a rich history working with children and youth since 1996. The Children’s Hope Home was founded by the directors Lucy and Duncan Ndegwa who have always had a passion for advocating for disadvantaged children and youth. While taking care of there own family, Lucy and Duncan would spend endless nights and early mornings on the streets teaching, talking, laughing, and sharing the love of God with the children, giving them hope for a better future.
One day Lucy and Duncan invited the street youth to her home for the holidays and with this the children’s home was born. With the creation of the Children’s Hope Home, many more children and youth found a new place to call home. Lucy and Duncan took on the well-being and nurturing of their new family and with this came the responsibility to expand the home and the vision to support children and youth in need, as a result Tuwape Tumaini Children’s Foundation was established.
Tuwape Tumaini Children’s Foundation strives to change and advocate for many livelihoods while working together on several community projects and with over 300 children and youth for the past 4 years. We have stood by families and community partners while creating opportunities for them that they may not have had prior. Tuwape Tumaini works to empower children and youth to create equal opportunity for all. We believe in working hand in hand with each child’s needs to help them achieve the fullest potential in life. To date the organisation has had wide interactions with hundreds of volunteers from around the globe. The organisation has maintained constant communication with the volunteers even after they have left.
The organisation vision is to empower children and youth throughout Kenya by creating opportunities to achieve the fullest potential in life while her mission is to to obtain a steady source of income through donations, sponsorships, and fundraising projects that will help cater for nutritious food, clean water, health care, quality education, and security of the needy children under our care. We value the belief that each child that we support is unique in there own way, as we work together to achieve their fullest growth in life, we need to attain all their needs.
Gathiga’s Children’s Hope Home
Gathiga’s Children’s Hope Home was established in 1996 and is located in Gathiga, Kenya. Gathiga Hope Home supports children from the streets and rehabilitates them off from drugs. The home is currently home to 150 children, aged at 3 to 21. Many of the children who are sheltered at the home are addicted to drugs from living on the streets and as a tool to mask hunger. The children that are supported in Gathiga come from near hopeless and permanent situations facing neglect, disease, abuse, starvation and lack of affection, many of them being abandoned or orphaned on the streets. The children and youth at the home require a lot of affection and attention in order for them to come out of addiction and feel welcomed in a new home. Not only do they need to know they have somewhere to rely on other than the streets but they have a future to look forward to as Hope Home works towards increasing there livelihood and providing them with education for a successful future.
Ebenezer Children’s Hope Home
Ebenezer Children’s Hope home was established in 2010 and is located in Kihara, Kenya. Ebenezer Hope Home project supports children and youth infected and affected by HIV and AIDS and is currently home to 25 children and youth, aged 3 to 18. The children and youth brought to the home are often left by families who are unable to support the needs of the children due to being ill themselves, many are brought with neglect towards medical needs and nutrition and are in hope for support in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The children who are positive for HIV/AIDS require high medical attention and at the moment these needs are barley being met. Currently with limited funds, we take the children to the medical clinic once monthly for check ups, but with added support we can increase the medical attention provided for these children.
The street feeding project
The street feeding project was established 1994 and is run in the streets of Nairobi catering mainly to homeless children. The homeless child population is high within the streets of Nairobi and all of there stories being unique, some living with families, orphaned, beggars, some who have run away and others who occasionally call the streets their home. Daily, these children are exposed to rough and risky activities while trying to earn money for food and clothing. Theft, drugs, and diseases are commonly found in the street life, the earlier these children can get rescued and rehabilitated into a stable environment the more success they will have in maintaining their livelihood. Through the Street Feeding Project we aim to build the trust with the children and families by visiting the streets weekly and providing them with a breakfast. This not only provides nutrition but as well a lead way into a trusting relationship.
Our long term goal for the street feeding project is to have the children leave the streets and enter into our Children’s Home where they can rehabilitate and have a bright future away from the dangers of the streets. However to do so it takes time with the families and the children, playing with them, joking around earning trust and getting to know the stories behind them. When trust is earned through our on going project we are able to ask questions and invite them to visit our home and stay with us
With help from volunteers and ongoing donations the project can be sustained in providing breakfast items to the families and at least 30 children weekly.
Community projects
At Tuwape Tumaini we strive to work with not only children and youth but families and community members as well. We work towards pushing our children and youth to have equal opportunities in the community, in order for this to be possible we need to as well help our local families and other community projects. All our community projects are partially funded by our foundation.
