On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. Demands. I want to tell you that i have but remained only ten minds to come my sentence in prison and i will be free. To mom i love you so much i always pray for you remember that you know that you are my mind that in every email. I can only tell you my daughter to be patient in home and team that day i will be. You i have it off my from nancy. Nancy evelyn and celia longingly waited for this day for four years. Their mother is being released from prison florence was sentenced to six years in jail for a minor offense thats not uncommon in kenya its a country where people have no Legal Security and the state acts in arbitrary ways. Its frequently children like nancy evelyn and cilla who are the victims of this arbitrary state action. In this case it was really heartbreaking because their mother was arrested and when she was arrested she was in the house the children we are in school and when they came they didnt find the mother. The mother disappeared and nobody knew where she was the traumatic experience particularly for nancy the eldest. Kenya the one time african model country isnt able to look after its children it leaves this job to International Aid organizations billions of dollars in aid are invested in the country. But how can these funds improve the conditions in the country long term if the people are too poor to help themselves and others are not going to use find. To take up the children to. Their electives who have been convicted so theyre not going to take up that battle of supporting the children by the funny thing treat them not all of them but for most of them because it would mean you have to take care of the upkeep of the children to school fees and indigent the general being of these kids. Lawrences relatives also left the children to their fates it was unbearable for their mother who was pregnant at the time. But none of that matters anymore at last shes allowed home with her daughter nuki who was born in prison. On the day of her release the prison officer and inmates one florence to address. A round of applause to encourage oh thank. You i dont have much to say except that im doing well i want to ask you to continue to pray for me im going out to start a new life and i need your prayers. To. Thank. Nancy evelyn and wait patiently until they can at last embrace their mother and their little sister all three of them have mixed feelings because the reunion goes hand in hand with their departure from the nest which took them in when nobody else was there from. The nest is a unique emergency charity for children whose mothers are sent to jail its funded by foreign donations the baby ward takes in children whose mothers neglected and abused the many young women in kenya are overwhelmed by the daily struggle for survival. The older children live in the nest home in limbo too while their mothers are in prison c. L. R. Nancy and evelyn have had hot meals here every day. Theyve gone to school and felt love and affection a stroke of good fortune for the children because the state doesnt take care of them. Obama the half sister of the former u. S. President returned to kenya after studying sociology in germany as an expert in Development Aid she has set up her own foundation south. To find solutions to achieve lasting change in the country she knows the limitations of the system. Yeah i did you too its nice if the government does nothing or almost nothing thats because of mismanagement of the system structure is poorly managed if you say ok lets help these children and this orphanage then you have to realize theres not just the ones there are hundreds in the country hundreds in nairobi alone and if the government had to contribute to every one of these children it would be on its knees kinda by yet im convinced that to give mr wood is the african union. Welfare state is not part of the kenyan vocabulary people have to fend for themselves they have to take care of their own lives and usually that just means mere survival. Kenyans work in the informal economy keeping afloat with nonregistered Small Businesses countless Street Vendors kiosk gun as and servants work illegally bypassing the state the state generally tolerates them but takes arbitrary action against them too unpredictable police controls often lead to prison particularly for those who are too poor to pay a bribe. Fear impotence and violence dominated country that was once a model for the whole of africa a whole society. Being brutalized is a cause as it were to you it is a devoted to this dark situation this violent survival situation results in very harsh things that come from frustration. And does count that people dont know how to lead their lives they are desperate because they have no money. They cant afford to have a child and they dont know what to do on vice this was his tunes are. For sixty years louisa rattle maya a nun from the varia has been fighting for every single African Child that comes to her at first it was child soldiers from sudan then aids orphans during the peak of the epidemic in kenya in the early two thousand. Now she provides a home for many children abandoned by society neglected forgotten abused and mistreated children. Help to move out the incline and feel good game but i had to go and i gave the lord the Little Finger and he took the whole of hand then he said youre useful to me and i thought i would do a small thing and then it all added up and i saw the need and wanted to help i prayed that we would get the money to do it and we always got some sometimes it took a long time but we got it along a good hour but i was just becoming. The seventy six year old nun visits the orphanage of santa monica only rarely these days shes sick and frail the years of working in development id have taken a. Look in there come. Visit me everybody. Three years ago yeah she have can own. A home five years ago mary was abused by her mothers boyfriend six years old at the time she fled to the streets of two john stayed alive by eating rubbish and slept in empty market stalls at night and. Many children in kenya share this fate they live in unsafe places and are exposed to constant violence a terrible superstition has spread in kenya that sex with children is aids. The african mission. The African Children struggle to talk about it they bury it all inside my feed you can see in their eyes that theyre crying but they hardly talk about it they were raised this way. You hardly ever hear anyone complaining even if they havent eaten in two days. They still greet you with a smile. Grows in the human animal. A boy from the santa monica ofen age who also came from the streets knows exactly how dangerous life there is. He helped to six year old mary and took it to sister luisa who had built a home for disadvantaged children and teenagers in the affluent outskirts of nairobi. We took her in and gave her a medical exam it turned out that she had been raped and that she was losing your friend and wasnt well or even funny we thought she might need an operation and you know what id say on how. Mary got through the operation well shes eleven now thanks to sister luisa she has a future. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know you are use the life here isnt. Your life youve. Got this good. And youre learning when in. Its good. When you go after we can be proud of your love. And you have no idea of us. Kenyans have to pay for their education in two thousand and three the state announced that Primary Schools would be free. But after that kenyan parent. Have to pay a lot to keep their children in education only the rich can afford all the others the vast majority get no second read you cation they remain without any chance of improving their circumstances children and young people from the slums oppa to kill a stuck in the vicious circle of poverty that persists through generations with a population growing explosively and a birth rate of four point two six children per woman and me of children and young people without prospects is growing up. We have to tackle these problems much more aggressively in my opinion we have to call things what they are and we have to have these conversations with people where are you safe where are your children safe how many children can you feed the husband is gone probably because its too stressful for him to try and feed his family he fails becomes an alcoholic and the woman says ill do with myself he. Was the easy. One to me. That was. Me was. I am god. It was. Was ok yes he was yes i was sure korogocho nairobi is the largest slum its home to one hundred fifty thousand people who will live below the only rubbish dump for a city with a population of four million they live with and off the rubbish of the rich from the neighboring districts and like vultures look for anything edible one of thems hamilton i he was born in the slum and grew up there there is no hope for the youths of floods of canaan general there is no hope for the future for like me a modern city of person and does way im living at today and ive become a be a cynic i know a slum because i was born near lake at thirty two years ago i have gone through a lot and at some point i was forced to drop out of school because my parents were not able to pay for my secondary school fees after doing my primary level so well and i have no option but to turn at the nearby dumping set of covering for food and for myself just like many other people do a talented footballer when he was twenty two hamilton had the chance to play. The homeless world cup in south africa it was an experience that changed his life forever he returned strong selfconfident and self determined he was determined to change his fate and that of the children in korogocho i believe that education is the best empowerment that we can give to any given trial in this world and referred to them educational. Program where its day two to pay their school fees and to which they had to keep them in school because there are so many people who are dropping school and discovering of the dumping site and they want to give the children are better education because they believe by getting education we can change our community. Together with charities stand and caddo its land hamilton founded the initiative in the middle of all the drugs and violence using scholarships he managed to get children from the korogocho slum to attend a secondary school and in the afternoons he gives them a protected space in his youth center where they can just be children dancing and playing for. The. Obama has also supported hamilton and his initiative. Is a slums to go to and these slum structures are very difficult to manage that was my frustration i wanted to work with these children and give them relief but i wasnt changing their lives and when we started the project they went back to their cardboard huts that was incredibly difficult from that thats why you have to integrate part of the program for young people and children with the parents you have to find out whats going on at home and what you can change with monday into the mid month her house in that vast is knows so how if theyre too old for a era then what maybe theyve still not completed school because theres no money for the fees this. They have no jobs because no jobs are being created by. Those who used to be with i. E. Era and who are adults now are standing at the side of the road and are selling their peanuts and fish heads and whatever else theyre selling in the slums. Those born in a slum in kenya end up as vendors along the overcrowded traffic arteries of nairobi from the toxic miasma of the rubbish dump to the toxic emissions on the street countless kenyan share the same fate. Many of them were born in Rural Regions they come from simple backgrounds they live in next ended families and have a small plot of land that they cultivate and live off but they leave all that behind and go to nairobi for a better life where there is more work supposedly. Their dream of mobility ends in the cities slums. They munich based organization promoting africa has created a Rural Skills Center a Pilot Project these young people have made it theyve completed their apprenticeship and the trained technicians electricians and tailors they have successfully managed to first step out of the slum and stand good chances of getting a job not least thanks to the charity. Either direct or jimmy is giving his fifth year the sendoff hes part of the generation of kenyans who want to change the situation in the country fundamentally hes a real change maker when you see a young person celebrating that they have graduated when you feel happy because when they when they come here with their parents or their guardians the guardians tell you please be very strict came them with possible we dont allow them to please be careful with them but when they come and find these young man you feel so much all you are not sure is graduating are these normal people we have the capacity to change principle jimmy colognes it gives ninety students a year the chance of getting an education in the skills center. Twenty three year old esther is one of them shes in her second year of training as a solo technician shes the only woman in her year what happens when someone is very. Fearful for what im going to reflect right then this time it is that im black so i want to make. A softer one or youll solve those rigs. So that list of learning more like it does change me it just in my life. And my behavior. And hopefully the for. Living and learning in a safe place far away from the dangerous slum. In the skill center young people learn skilled jobs and do Work Experience in companies its a dual track system that trains young people in jobs with good prospects. Thats very rare in kenya at the moment in addition the students here get food every day as well as a clean place to sleep. Coming from this back up and they call themselves. They tell us just the terrorist people. The wrong things. Involved in themselves too bad behaviors like taking someone things. Should be. At least i walked out from that community. During term time as the goes home very infrequently hope thats the slum of chaka theres always a lot of work that awaits their. Children have to take on responsibility in the home from a young age while their mother tries to earn a few shillings a childhood in kenya and. This is a house. Single money so six children two six children two girls in my school this is our last one lets go there mom its my mom. Oh it almost in this house. My sisters and brother and. So we have to feel like we have. No man he asked. Us. Any and stream of a white collar job they would love to wear a suit and work in an office in one of nairobis high rises like in the european soap operas they all watch it synonymous with social advancement. But there arent that many white collar jobs in kenya agriculture tourism and construction as well as all the good old trades all have prospects but they have a poor image. Mostly mentality their mission and a minimalist and its good that people have to change their mentality they mustnt think ill go to school and at the end of it i get a job in an office i just have to sit at a desk and earn my money that. They should maybe think about learning a trade which they might not like. It might be the second choice if university wasnt an option most people dont do that when they just try to get a job in an office and then they end up working as balances or something. Then busy or. Back in the womens prison in london after the close of the reunion with their mother approaches the quiet say nancy evelyn and become they dont know yet what awaits them on the other side of the prison walls. But there is reassurance the nest will stay with them through the transition period. And. I being this. Have been visiting her in prison so i have sort of like established at addition ship with her so i am also very happy and looking forward to. Giving her back the children for the four years i have been acting very mediating between the mob and the child but now today finally the meet in the a free. I am. Four years without a mother and sister a difficult moment particularly financing. She immediately picks up a little sister and takes on the role of the eldest. The two didnt have mixed reactions they are not really very sure how it will be after the now they have left the nest because they have known a nest for four years and of course we can swim that after your mommy and leaves prison we prepare a new home. For fifteen years the founder of the nest. Has been fighting tirelessly for those who dont have a lot being Kenyan Society children. Who have a fenced in yard on thing and when we started fifteen years ago the mothers didnt have mattresses there were no mosquito nets no special food for infants and there was no room in which the children could spend time in a child friendly way. There was a room where the babies were lying on the floor and there was a big t. V. Camera in a corner and they wont watch by another inmate all day long. Long own children werent allowed to visit their mothers you were only allowed to come when you were eighteen or quietly and steadily we tried to change that and pick up the harley head first so to end on. The day after florences release. Why. Dont you want your mother here. You dont want to tell me whats going on even though im your mother. Nancys very sensitive and being the eldest she was the one who was left behind to look after these other three so she had she read it to chris bones ability over taking care of their us when she was a child herself and that is the way i think shes sad they are us. The most important part of the nests work starts now bringing a family back together it takes patience time and money. Were going through those willing to buy anything we really understand the taxes alone we have to pay we have to pay for everything ourselves those are the conditions we have to work and im a guest in this country and i have to accept things as they are we have politicians who steal billions of shillings theres so much corruption every employee of the City Government is a millionaire because Building Permits arent issues without huge bribes being paid and. Kenyans have come to terms with corruption and nepotism the starting point for the. Problematic development with the colonize ation of africa in eight hundred sixty one the europeans divided up the continent pay no heed to tribal borders in one thousand nine hundred five kenya became a british colony the prize for expanding the countrys infrastructure and bringing over settlers was land theft oppression and subjugation hope surged when kenya forced its independence from britain under Freedom FighterJomo Kenyatta in one nine hundred sixty three but the founder of the state didnt keep his promise is he to enrich himself at the expense of the people. As did his successes in post daniel iraq more like a barking and kenyata son. Who has been in office since twenty thirteen. Theyve done the same thing as the colonial powers exploiting and oppressing the people. Last of it doesnt leave the colonialism to one side because were just working on focusing on what weve created this monster i want us to talk about Development Aid because we slipped straight from this colonial situation into Development Aid we said oh the people are poor we have to help the now well help them from another country we come with ready made packages because we know they had no Running Water and no electricity and we thought we had to change that we have to lift them out of poverty we saw it as poverty because in our country we have Running Water and electricity and thats our benchmark for a good life and we are not poor any more thats the problem. Does is this. The western definition of poverty coupled with an infantilizing Development Aid system has created many problem image. Every kenyan longs for a western standard of living who wants to live in simple huts when the rest of the world appears so rich and so the run educated people of the country so urgently needs simply leave. Twenty eight year old peter now lives in the United States he was one of sister louise as john says he visits her as often as he can he owes so much to her. When peter was eight he came to sister louise as a refugee from south sudan. Kenya has long been a place of refuge from the war torn neighbor states no other country in the region has taken in more refugees despite all its own problems. I dont even think that always been exist oh worse probably ill be dead by now in the wars and for the opportunity that is to lose often yeah there will be no future for me. And thats honestly speaking and just from the fact that what south sudan is going through right now theres really theres really limited chances of hope but with sister louise off on hope and safety. In the one nine hundred ninety s. Sister louisa rented accommodation for child refugees and child soldiers from south sudan. Peter was one of them well this gate right here i used to actually run through it without bending when i had to really bend because of grooms have all the gruesome. Oh boy. Theyre in. Hard. This is a boys compound not much changes really. The school in the neighborhood didnt want to teach the traumatized child refugees as a result sister louisa opened her own Primary School for the children peter attended it. I was lucky to be where i was at the time and i really think god for that for this kids some of them dont even know what tomorrow will be some of them are even thinking about what they will be eating tonight will they be going to bed hungry or. Theyll find some food from you know a neighbor or something if their parents dont have much you know so its its a challenging situation especially its not just them as a lot of kids and in general in africa and through the program and they manual foundation my sisters running right now is a great example of a foundation i give hopes of children. I was not different at all from them i was no different at all. Kenyas children only stand a chance of sustainable Development Aid in the country creates future prospects peter wasnt able to return to a home still ravaged by war and persecution thanks to a scholarship in america he was able to get his High School Education and physiotherapist training that. Many kenyans have no faith that they can turn their own fate around the poorest of the poor in particular have never learned to take personal responsibility if need be they get money from one of the many Development Aid organizations helping them to get by for a few days but this well intentioned help over the decades has peeled pay. Sympathy and materialism without lastingly improving the lives of the people. The standard model of Development Aid creates a situation where the people are constantly grateful and when youre grateful for long enough and you never able to get yourself out of your misery then youre subservient youre someone without any feeling of selfworth or selfconfidence you step aside when a white person comes because the white person could be the one who pay for your school families. Personal responsibility is nurtured and encouraged in the skills center. Pastors mother can only pay a fraction of the school fees thats why i asked the rest of the money at school there are no scholarships here but their support thats how some managed to work for their school fees im doing the job to pay my school fees now and stuff like that i was doing. Planting cleaning the compound feeding to gas and that was my job but now look at a dazzling the stuff i look after but im still be in the job now. Whereas those at home she helps her single mother who only has a modest income as a market woman. Its barely enough for her and six children to live. I want a Better Future for my daughter i want her to go to school to learn and study she should have a better life for myself here. As desired teacher is visiting today. Shes in close contact with her students and also includes the parents in her work. Do you see a difference between esther and the other girls who went to Primary School with her but who werent able to continue their education or learn or jobs. Theres a Swimming Pool theres one main difference most of the other girls have had children and got married. And im glad that she was able to continue her schooling and further her education. To go and help. As this teacher is also called esther she spent her own childhood in the slum together with her mother she somehow managed to cobble together the money for her education. My life to am in that is it also. I am in the middle class. When i meet those goals i already know. Is easier for me to to absorb them into understand them into the mystery and then try to tell a story where story and they see the need for me to help them. Understand is what. I am to have so congressman this isnt going to try my best to. Let my deter. As they learned in the school centered to be affective herself. Someone with this attitude and her training she stands a good chance of getting a job that will improve her mothers life to. The point the projects have to be designed so that you foster the participants sense of personal responsibility and ill bet on it has to be in build it isnt it cant be just because a wants it or a white person wants is an only it has to be because i understand what it means to create something for myself for myself a bus a chef and. Were back with florence a few days after her release the nest do a home visit. See learn yochi i hear. The question is come florence find a way back into her old life and how with the sisters react. They were quickly married off when florence went to jail. The eldest was the substitute mother the father had left the family. That. The social worker from the nest is there for the entire encounter and what is it closely. Yeah in the mist and the police and those hes wanted to try lawrence doesnt want to return to this place she says. All of them here would be too many. She didnt know or her sisters would be married by now and. Again. Florence says it wouldnt be traditional for her to move in here as well she prefers to live somewhere else. And if they need me they can visit me. Hello. And the. Distances better a husband wouldnt like it if she were constantly with her sisters florence has made her decision. That. We wouldnt want to take her to a place that she doesnt want to leave and well go to the town where she wants to go and live and we can get a house then receive what business can be done there then really integrate have definitely. Despite all the problems and injustices in their country many kenyans have learned to turn their need into something positive they know they contra line on the state they take their fate into their own hand pity and then wont help them theres a growing number of change makers in kenya well educated people who are staying in the country in order to change things i believe kenya has a chance. To turn around. The vision i have is true of responsible resourceful citizens how do we do it by myself knowing that i have the skills for social work and Community Development how can my skills change the life of a young person or a lot of years to changed. Then the trickle effect walks to the site saw i may have done my part is doing their part i think its time now we stopped and and learning from each other so that we dont repeat the same mistakes somebody else. Went through. And move it up. Every child in the slums now knows how important it is to go to school. To school. More and more young women are striving for a good education before starting a family. Invest their. Sustainable aid projects such as those offered by the charity and can help the people of kenya along the way but they have to achieve it themselves. I hope the nest will help me and i hope to become a seamstress. And. It will be a long time before nancy can say goodbye to the next before shes ready to make a new stock. But if nancy and her generation manage to turn their own fates around then theres hope for the whole country. This is a very novel time. A lot of people feel that we have not been this kind of Inflection Point since during the bacterial world. Researches are on the brink of a new scientific revolution. Even our understanding of medicine could be turned on its head. Microbes that knowledge. In fifteen minutes long d. W. One family. From a jedi somebody. To pass on to her an International Brand of. Shared passion. F. C. Byron munich to truly understand. These three words. To me as some young. Men yet dont see kind of you cant touch us refining them by an. Exclusive journey to the sun by a new next yes i mean its a kind of culture walk we are who we are in accept us for what we are were a family unbelievable. Son me a phenomenon starting october fifteenth on d. W. Me yet. 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