AFRICA/KENYA - Italian Education Science students get Summer experience in Kenya with Comboni organisation AMANI

Wednesday, 6 September 2006

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Eight students of Education Science at the Catholic University of Rome, spent a Summer period of experience in a district of the city of Nairobi, where their shared daily life with a group of children.
They were welcomed at Kivuli Center by volunteers and teachers of a Kenyan structure Koinonia which assists street children.
The Summer experience mission in Kenya was planned in collaboration with AMANI which means PEACE, a non religious and non profit social assistance organisation founded by the Comboni missionaries with volunteers working on aid projects mainly in Africa. Programmes and initiatives in Africa are run exclusively by local people.
The Italian student guests visited three Homes for Street children in Nairobi, Kivuli Center, Anita House and a new house called Little Brother. Kivuli Centre in a Riruta slum area is a point of reference for children and men and women in need and also for informal groups searching for somewhere to meet and organise initiatives.
Anita House is special for two reasons, it is run by a woman Jane Wamunga and has become home for three local families who besides looking after their own offspring have chosen to take care of some of Nairobi’s numerous street children. Most of the children, aged 4 to 18 years, are orphans, some have suffered abuse in sex tourism.
Many AMANI programmes were inspired by groups of young Africans meeting at Koinonia Centre in Nairobi. Other projects supported by AMANI include a programme for street children in Lusaka, Zambia, a small clinic in the poor district of Kibera in Kenya and a company of pacifist youth actors: AMANI People Theatre. (AP) (6/9/2006 Agenzia Fides; Righe:30; Parole:357)


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