| In Kenya, MCF operates 6 Projects in three different provinces.
MCF Eldoret and MCF Kipsongo community programs are located in Eldoret and Kitale towns respectively in Rift Valley Province. MCF Ndalani and MCF Yatta are located in Machakos District, Eastern Province. MCF Kangundo is located in Kangundo district in Eastern Province, and MCF Vipingo is located in Kilifi in the Coast province.
The ministry has attachments to Mwanza, Tanzania in children rescue programs.
MCF Eldoret
This is the parent home and it is situated in Eldoret town 320 kilometres from the capital city Nairobi. This home reaches out to needy children in Western Kenya, which comprises three major provinces which include Rift Valley province, Western province and Nyanza Province
It caters for both boys and girls from age 1 day old to 13 years old, mainly former street children and orphans of HIV/AIDS. Programs here include formal education from pre-school to Grade 4.
Currently the home is closed for renovation and the children have been relocated to our other center in Ndalani.
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MCF Ndalani
Ndalani, the second home was established in 1996. Located on an 80 acre piece of land, It is about 108 Km southeast of Nairobi.
This home is better positioned to address the needs of the children in Nairobi area, as well as eastern province, alongside with incorporating children from the Eldoret parent home. Ndalani is home to 530 former street boys and girls between ages 7 years and 23 years old.
Programs here include formal education from nursery to high school, technical education and horticulture farming programs for self-sustainability.
Future Plans being held up because of financial constraints at Ndalani:
- Workshop tools and equipment for carpentry and metal work
- Laboratory equipment for science subjects for the 8-4-4 education system
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MCF Yatta Rehabilitation Centre for Street Girls
MCF has a third home, a street girls rescue center in Yatta is about 40 Km away from Thika town on the Thika Garissa highway. This is home to 250 girls.
This center is where the girls’ physical and spiritual needs especially medical care, parental love, spiritual nourishment, and emergency relief food are provided in addition to tailoring, dressmaking, hair dressing, agriculture, basketry and evangelism programs.
Primary health care, cookery, child care, housekeeping and general home science will be of major emphasis in order to improve their living standards and prepare them for future responsibilities in their families in addition to economic empowerment.
The rehabilitation center will reach out to the surrounding community with a view to create awareness about the HIV/AIDS scourge and its preventive measures through drama, audio-visuals (cinema) and setting of a health center for street girls.
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MCF Kangundo Community Based Center
Due to the increased number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and the constant increase of child laborers in Kangundo, MCF saw the need of establishing a community based project in Kangundo district. 132 children come every morning to the center to receive food, formal education, medical care and other basic needs and then leave late in the evening back to there relatives and caretakers' homes.
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MCF Vipingo Community Based Center
Vipingo is a rural slum area located in Kilifi district in Coast Province.
This center caters for Orphans, child laborers and any other children in need of special care and protection. It is similar to MCF Kangundo and is situated 720 km from Nairobi city. MCF Vipingo caters for the needs of 141 boys and girls.
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Kipsongo community based program.
MCF has intensified feeding programmes for street children mainly in Kipsongo slum in Kitale town. This has reduced the number of children loitering on the Kitale Streets. It is also important to note that those children who had dropped out of the nearby schools due to lack of food, are now retained becausethey come for lunch at the feeding centre. The programme caters for over 173 children.
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