CHILDREN’S HOME

Due to the increasing number of orphaned, abandoned and destitute children, the church realized that it was strategically positioned to offer hope to ‘the least of these’ as our Lord Jesus called them. In the year 2000 our children home was established and immediately rescued 30 needy children. Over the years the number of children grew to 60. The home was built within the church compound so as to enable these children to grow in a loving atmosphere surrounded by a compassionate body of believers. The home has been partnering with like minded organizations to enhance the welfare of the children we take care of. By tying the activities of the home to the local church, we seek to sensitize and mobilize local church to respond to the plight of these needy children.

Orphans rescued, local church strengthened, God’s Kingdom expanded

HOME BASED CARE PROGRAM

Fountain of Life Home Based Care is a church run outreach program that targets poor households with one or more family members living with HIV/AIDS. The programme is currently being implemented in Mathare; Kayole and Dandora slums in Nairobi’s Eastland. A total of 60 families are supported through the program.
Parents and guardians are passing away without leaving plans in place to ensure the future of the children they leave behind. Without having mechanisms in place to secure property for their children.
The Fountain of Life home based care program ultimately seeks to offer HOPE to these families and thereby achieve these two strategic objectives:

1. Extending the life of the parent-child relationship;

Our care givers visit these families three days a week and provide spiritual, emotional and psychosocial support to the people living with AIDS and their children.
We also, by networking with health institutions ensure that the people living with AIDS have access to appropriate Medicare. With the constant home visits, family members with opportunistic infections are rapidly identified and assisted.
The program offers food support when the sick parents are bed ridden, to ensure nutritious meals while they are fighting opportunistic infections. The food support targets not only the HIV positive but their children as well.

2. Preparing the family for transition
The program endeavors to continue supporting these families even after the passing away of a parent or guardian, to ensure the future of the children they leave behind
Our care givers are therefore developing memory books and family trees with these families to identify members of their extended families, who could be willing to adopt the children when the parents die. The parent’s wishes for their children are recorded for future reference. This is important as the families begin to accept death as a sad but inevitable reality.
The program shall continue to support orphaned children in their communities (DISTANCE ADOPTION) or where cases are extremely needy and in the best interests of the child, adopt them to Fountain of Life Children’s Home

19th December 2006.

On the night of the above mentioned date, at around 10:00pm, government bulldozers invaded the church and children home premises and began demolishing structures. The structures demolished that night were: a 3000 seater church tent, 2 office blocks, 7 classrooms, a dining room and kitchen, a dormitory and a recently completed borehole infrastructure that had costed close to $30,000. All this was happening as we watched helplessly. The children were much traumatized.
The demolition took place without any prior notice and despite the fact that the government had given letters of allotment to the church. The operation was supervised by Kenya police. Property worthy millions of Kenya shillings was either destroyed or looted in full view of armed police.
10 years investment was brought down in less than 2 hours. Over 50 young Muslim men were in the company of the government officials. They had with them all manner of crude weapons. We didn’t intend to fight back, at least not physically. Our lawyers are following the matter in court.
Meanwhile we sent word out to well-wishers, relying the terrible incident that had happened. The congregation continues to meet for our Sunday services in a rented premise. The children are staying in rented property in Nairobi Calvary Temple Buruburu, East of Nairobi.