DID YOU KNOW?:
ALMOST HALF (43%) OF THE TOTAL POPULATION OF KENYA IS UNDER 15.
(Source, Research Briefing Note - Kenya)
3/4 OF CHILDREN HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO REMOTE LEARNING PLATFORMS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT.
PLACE OF GRACE CHILDREN'S HOME
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THEIR MISSION: To Provide Orphans and Vulnerable Children with basic and Secondary needs such as Food, shelter, education clothes, medical care, recreation, parental and spiritual guidance, love and
Services offered
Children rescue
Community outreach
Foster care
Guardianship
Psycho-social counseling and support
KEY POINTS, UNICEF REPORT 2021:
- Pandemic containment measures have left nearly 53 per cent of children living in multi- dimensional poverty in 2020...
- With reports of violence, abuse and exploitation of children and women also on the rise.
- Over 531,000 children aged 6 to 59 months need treatment for acute malnutrition in Kenya.
- Mandatory school closures due to COVID-19, from March 2020 through January 2021, have affected nearly 16.1 million children.
- Children have experienced unprecedented interruptions to learning and are facing heightened risks for gender-based violence, abuse, teen pregnancy, female genital mutilation and child labour.