Heart Children's Home was started on the 25th of May, 2005 by Mama Nuru Said with 7 children operating from a rental house.
The home now has 46 children as young as 2 months old. We are supporting children in various education levels: Kindergarten, primary,secondary levels and some university level, As per now we are proud despite all ups and downs we have managed to educate - 1 quantity surveyor 3 Electricians 1 Blacksmith 2 salonist & beutucians 1 admisntrator 1 pilot 1 Aeronotic engineer 1.Plant operator/driver 1 Music artist and 1 girl doing ICT
we have 1 girl who scored grade B she has to join university but we still lack sponsorship for her.
1boy is yet to do electrical wiring.
1 girl is also waiting to join salon and beauty college but the challenge still remains funds are not on our side.
we have also 1physical handicaped child he cant walk, we have been sending him to a Mombasa hospital, he got a referal to a Nairobi hospital doctors are doing their best to manage his situation but it is also quit expensive however we have made a bigger step regarding his medical
Due to very taugh economy in Kenya almost everything is now sold at double price, we are going through cevere financial crisis at the orphanage, we are calling upon sponsors and donors / well-wishers to help us facilitate the day to day running of the home.
The home has been operating without sufficient donors, we have been relying on wellwishers who visit at times once or twice in life time to donate food, chothes and some help to pay maybe one or 2bills
The children have alot of needs like food, medical, school fees, clothing, salaries for staff, house rent and utilities.
This has not been quit easy to operate without finances but we started a small layer chicken project at least in a day we are able to collect 1 to 3 trays of eggs that can assist in solving small matters, one challange with this project is feeding the chicken and protect them from infections so sometimes we end up using their own production to feed them since the project is still small with 50layers.
It is our wish to have this project expanded so that we can be self relient. It is also our prayer to have our own houses instead of renting. As per the new policies the government recomendetion is for children to be raised in foster care programs and have life as families and not institutions, this means they should have life as a community instead where by one mother goes to live with a few number of children and they become her children, another mother given some few children and live with them as her own this will require us build about 6 family houses but slowly slowly, The house we are shall remain as a rescue centre and a donation centre and the office as well but it will be wise to have the center in our own land where we will not pay Rent as well, it is also our wish to have boreholes and solar panels to avoid paying high water and electricity bills. Not so soon but the government is bringing new regulations that children's home will be converted to rescue or something else in order to serve children in better way. That why they have come with foster care and adoption option so that kids can be brought up family manner . With mother and father figure in the house . Foster care will be renewed every year for two years then you can get adoption easy way then adoption is life program that child will be yours . As orphanage we are thinking to construct two house then we start with our staff members to do foster care program. We are having our first training on 24/08/2023 for foster care program then we get registered for foster care this will mean even after closure of homes can still run as foster institution.