The WorldCOMP Home of Grace Child Support Programs target orphaned and vulnerable children living in Kibera slums, Lenana slums, other slums and rural areas in Kenya. Due to the conditions of life in the slums, these children face a myriad of challenges that tend to impede their development. These challenges include lack of access to basic needs like food, education, clothing, healthcare, and in e
xtreme cases shelter. The situation exposes them to numerous social vices like child abuse, forced labor, crime, drug abuse, prostitution etc. Most of them drop out of school and end up being engaged as casual laborers and housemaids in the affluent neighborhoods. These children do not go to school because their parents/guardians cannot afford to take them to school. The children who do not have access to formal education and other basic needs run a high risk of ending up in the streets. In retrospect, their counterparts in rural areas end up being used as source of cheap labor in farms and factories, which further exposes them to subsequent life-threatening conditions. WorldCOMP Home of Grace currently has taken in 20 of these children through a recruitment program and are all now in school.
