Dream Children‘s Home

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Dream Children's Home is the realization of Rachel Gichia´s dream to care for orphaned children. After telling her husband about opening our house to some orphaned children, he agreed to support her dream. So they created a space in our home to share what they have with the orphaned children
In 2005 Dream Children's Home is registered as an orphanage and now it is registered under the Ministry of Home Affairs as a charitable institution.

Mission
The primary goal of the project is to restore hope and provision of basic needs to orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya. Dream Children’s Home takes care of destitute, orphaned and abandoned children.

The objectives are to rehabilitate the children with interpersonal development skills through education, medical care, building of their self-esteem and social living skills.

Activities
• We equip children with psychosocial skills that will enable them live responsibly in the community.
• We provide a nutritional diet to all children to help eradicate malnutrition and encourage healthy body and mind growth.
• We also provide a child friendly living atmosphere for the children.
• Furthermore we initiate income-generating activities for sustain the Home and we empower local families with small business skills so that they can improve their income in readiness for the reintegration of the children back into the community.
• The project has a feeding program where it ensures that children get a well balanced diet and three meals a day.
• In response to the millennium development goals for 2015 the project has endeavoured to provide education needs to all the children in the home.
• We have pre-school, primary and secondary pupils. With our dormitories and the main family house we provide shelter for all the children. They are living together as brothers and sisters under the care of two parents.
• The program provides clothing and school uniforms to the children.
• Medical care is provided to all children.
• The home provides on going psychosocial counselling for the children through networking with pro-bono counsellors who provide invaluable counselling to the children.
• We have income generating activities as the home has four milk cows (Friesian) that provide milk to sell locally, supplementing the Home’s already strained budget.

Projects (ongoing or completed):
• New Classroom for St.Helenas School
• Extending the Shed
• Renewing the Sanitary System
• Drinking Water Station
• Library
• Biogas System

Rachel Gichia is the Director of the Dream Children's Home.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.