Slum Outreach
The goal of the Slum Outreach Program is to create connection with street children meeting in their world helps us to build rapport and trust to enable us make right assessment on children to be rescued from the streets to start the rehabilitation process. Daily meals, basic medical care, counselling and referrals for other rehabilitative care to street children and vulnerable children living in the slums are tools used to get to the hearts of these children.
The Slum Outreach Program serves as an entry point for AFRIHCO in reaching out to street children and has been since the very inception of the African Hearts Community Organisation. From inception in 2001, the program has served an approximate total of 302,400 street children, an estimate of 1008 boys from 2008 and a total estimate of 148 girls since 2020.
AFIHCO runs operates a Drop-in-Centre in Kisenyi Slum where an estimated 90 to 120street children and other vulnerable children living in the slums are reached daily. The Centre is overseen by 3 social workers, a nurse and cooks.
The Centre provides a warm lunch meal to the children five times a week. Other services provided include basic medical care such as wound care, first aid and referrals. Medical services are accessed by the vulnerable children, their families and general community in the slums.