The sisters of the Assumption of Eldoret (ASE) who work with homeless children in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, have described the joy of getting these boys, especially girls, completely abandon the streets.
Sister Caroline Ngatia explains to the Pontifical Foundation helps the Church in need (UNHC) than to get the girls from the street has been easier than the boys, and that with them “there is no relapse.”
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“When we managed to rescue these girls, a total transformation occurs and becomes better people in society,” adds the religious, in a report that ACN shared with Aci Africa – News Administration for Ewtn Africa – on Tuesday, February 5 .
“We encourage you to take education seriously, because only education can break that cycle of poverty,” says HNA. Caroline in the report that highlights that there are more than 60,000 families living in the streets of Nairobi, with children who do not go to school and are often drug addicts or are dedicated to other illegal activities.
Founded in Kenya in 1962, ASE has more than 2,000 members distributed in the nations of East Africa, and one of its main projects is what they do with children in the streets of Nairobi.
The religious shares that they only worked with boys before, but for some time they also help girls and adolescents, since these are more vulnerable than boys.
“We go to the streets of Nairobi and establish links with these girls; We visit them three days a week and also work with their mothers, most of whom are drugged, ”explains the nun, so the process“ is not always easy ”. Once they have been rehabilitated and acquire some skills, they reimburse their families.
“Those who cannot reintegrate with their relatives stay with us, so we take them to school; We pay them the enrollment, and we give them a lot of psychosocial support, because they are girls who have suffered sexual abuse in the street, girls with AIDS … so we empower them, ”says the HNA. Caroline.
With the work they do, Ase religious study the possibility of building a convent with the residences of rescued boys, to improve the situation.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in ACO Africa.
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