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Safety and Well-Being
While our main purpose is education we know that nutrition, good health and a safe living environment are important to learning. Our program provides:- Breakfast and lunch school days: We know that it is important for children to begin the day with something in their stomachs. Therefore, we started a breakfast program in 2009. School lunch as been a part of the program since the beginning. Each child therefore receives at least two meals every school day.
- Health monitoring and basic medical, dental and eyecare: In 2009 we started a program to monitor the health of the children in the program. We take height and weight at least once a year and provide a nurse during the Saturday Program for basic health exams.
- Caseworker home visits and assessments: We have found that it important to keep tabs on the home environments of the children. Many of these families are unstable and we are sometimes able to intervene to correct situations that are deteriorating - or remove the child from that environment if necessary.
Pictured at top: Children with breakfast. Bottom: Counselor Grace Atieno with some of the children. | | | |
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