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Rescue Dada Case Study

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The background
Rescue Dada Rehabilitation Centre is a Kenyan institution established in 1992, which was then started and operated in Nairobi Mathare slums. It therefore started with two rooms and it has since grown to be a registered Charitable Children Institution that is currently located in Ngara. Rescue Dada Rehabilitation Centre, picks the word ‘Dada’ from the Swahili language which is widely spoken in Kenya. The word Dada means girl child and it is part of the mission statement of the institution. The main task is to rescue the girl child between the ages of 5 and 16. The institutions host about 70 children per year with the main intension being rescuing, rehabilitating and reintegrating the children back to their families before then …show more content…

The institution has therefore welcomed me by giving me the procedures of what the institution does and also by how they go about it. Where its main core work is to rescue the girl child between the age of 5 years and 16 years especially that being this is quite a critical age group of the girl child. With the challenges of rape and pregnancy and also coming from abusive families in the slums as well as the …show more content…

To begin with the strengths of Rescue Dada is that the institution has a great organizational culture in that it offers its program for a year and the external relations by means of being an institution running a project that is recognized and respected as an established institution having the experience of about 20 years. More so being registered by the government of Kenya. It goes ahead to work closely with the girls and increasing its credibility with the donor and sponsors who are in support of it.
The project is hereby dedicated to rescue, rehabilitate and reintegrate the girl child and since it is located near the Nairobi city which at times most time of the years it has been experiencing having a wave of street children who are most of the time high on gum that they sniff, be it the girls or the boys. Hence the task of the institutions becomes a bit stress-free for the rehabilitation center and henceforward since it is has this wonderful staff who are qualified and working with volunteers who are greatly

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