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Dagoretti Corner Rehabilitation Centre (DCRC)

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1.0 Historical background of Dagoretti Corner Rehabilitation Centre (DCRC)

DCRC is a children’s rehabilitation centre that was founded by Pastor Enos Baxic Oumo in 1993 in Kenya. It caters for orphaned and vulnerable children in the slums of Dagoretti and the country at large. The founder, Pastor Enos is a Ugandan national who came to Kenya as a refugee in the 1980s. As a refugee, he empathizes with the myriad challenges that vulnerable and orphaned children go through looking for food, shelter, clothing and a sense of belonging. Most of the children in the home have some living relatives but some of these relatives have been instrumental in making them destitute due to land disputes in the family where children born to single-mothers …show more content…

The kitchen is very close to the sleeping quarters and when cooking is going the smoke sometimes fills the sleeping quarters.

The centre has an affiliate school – Hidden Talent Academy that offers the children through the formal education in primary and secondary school. The school also aims to nurture other talents that the children may have. This is done mostly in sporting activities like football, rugby and tennis so that they can be able to make a living as sportsmen and uplift their living standards.

It has been noted by the management of DCRC that those children who leave the centre before they have completed high school go back into the society unprepared for adult life challenges and end up being alcoholics doing manual labour and some spend time in prison for petty crime. The centre tries to bring back it’s alumni who have made it in life as sponsors and as role models for those still at the centre. It has been a rewarding task as some alumni have been able to get regular sponsors to affiliate themselves with the centre availing the required funding and/or donations especially for …show more content…

The centre educates the children and also teaches them life-skills and sports in order for them to put an end to the poverty-cycle in their lives and that of their families and generations to come. The aim of our project was to assist the centre in achieving its objectives of ensuring that the children in the centre are free from cold and diseases so that they can concentrate on school work and sports which will help them gain employment to conquer poverty, worry and helplessness in their

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