There are few shelters for street children and some organizations and foundations are taking care about street children. However the number is growing and the facilities not enough. I do admire those who are working with street children as I know how hard it is.

I rented a big house in Nairobi in 2002 and took in a group of street boys I met in the streets in Nairobi. I had no knowledge about street children's behavior all I wanted is to start a shelter for street children and take care about them. It was very difficult to deal with these children. They were fighting, stealing, sniffing glue and were not willing to cooperate or to follow the rules. After years of stress we gave up. We tried to maintain these boys but due to lack of knowledge and skills we were not able to keep the boys. One after another one left, or was sent away. We were left with two of them, James and Charles. They came to live with us in Mombasa. However these boys finally left also. James was sent away for serious misbehavior and theft and Charles because of theft. James now works within another orphanage and Charles is not found since then.

In the meanwhile other children were brought in to us. We were cooperating with the children department in Nairobi and police. We moved from Nairobi to Thika where we started to shelter smaller children. Mama Jane moved with us too to Thika and later moved with us to Mtwapa. In July 2008 we moved from Mtwapa North to Kikambala. We are right now located in Kikambala where we have rented a three bedroom bungalow with a big compound. We moved from one place to another due to harrasment of landlords or agents and because of space problems. The last time we moved was due to the fact that the agent needed the house for business purpose. We are planning to built a centre where we can host our children, and a school to educate them. Soon we let you know where this will happen....