• NAPENDA KUISHI HOME

The Home is located in Gataka/Rongai, 25 Kilometres from Nairobi. It is a fully equipped residential facility for rehabilitation of young teenagers referred here by our other two centres of Kisumu Ndogo and Boma rescue or from Government and/or county institutions. It is meant to house and work with the most difficult cases, where youth are heavily addicted, come from very challenging family realities and are victims of abuses. The Home allows its beneficiaries to be rehabilitated in a safe environment away from their normal urban environment where access to drugs and alcohol is easy. The clients are attended to by a team of counsellors and social workers who professional guidance and counselling, spiritual, moral and behaviour change programs, together with to the children and integrate them in formal learning institutions or back to their families.  The home has residential capacity of 40 youth.

The rehabilitation program last one full year and it includes individual and group counselling, occupational therapy, skills workshops, art therapy, life skills seminars, recreational activities, sports, etc.

Napenda Kuishi Home also has enough ground for sports activities and a farm for manual/occupational therapy. All the activities at Napenda Kuishi home are supervised by a Centre’s coordinator who supervises all programs and staff, including the support staff: cooks, maintenance people and workers in charge of the farm.

Staff: Napenda Kuishi Home is staffed by a centre coordinator, with a BA in Psychology; two licensed counsellors, three social workers and three support staff including cooks, maintenance and farm staff. The home also benefits from the expertise of psychologists, medical doctors and psychiatrists who work regularly with our youth.

Napenda Kuishi has also signed an agreement with Kenyatta University in Nairobi where the university will provide interns in psychology, counselling, social work mainly for the residential facility.