CHEK Ministries

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The Rationale

Of even a greater danger is another category of children that in most cases may not even have the ‘comforts’ of a home nor the luxury of a grown up to provide them with the necessary care and protection. Here we find aids and war orphans, street children, child labourers, prostitutes, the abused and mentally and/or physically challenged.

Most that fall in these categories do not have an opportunity for schooling or of spiritual nurture, many of them coming from the informal settlements, lacking the necessary infrastructure for a child’s proper growth.

In the continent of Africa, over 70% of the total population consists of children and youth, many of who fall in one of the above categories. The governments have tried what they can to address this rising need with various portions of the church also coming in, especially the child based Para-church organisations.

Kibera one the largest slum in Africa is found in Kenya. In this slum alone, there are many informal schools, which fall way below the required education standards since they lack the most basic facilities.

Quite a number of the slum children attend these, even though too many more do not! The majority cannot afford even the most basic school requirements like uniforms, exercise books, etc even though there is ‘free education’.

These children stay away from school and in most cases go in search of family income and may end up begging, stealing, and even selling of their bodies if they are old enough. 

Food is often lacking at home, so, with hunger pangs biting hard, the children scavenge and/or scrounge for it wherever possible, even from dustbins and damp heaps.

The children live in terrible squalid conditions, even with no proper sanitation, exposed to great and diverse immoral lifestyles all around them. In order for them to grow up to become what God destined them for, secular education alone will not do.