KSC10 – Kigamboni Street Children

My name is John Grint. Born and raised in Norfolk I joined the Royal Navy aged 15 and have lived in Attleborough for the past 36 years.

During a meeting with Robert Webster at St Mary’s Church Attleborough, I learned of a need for help in Jinja -Uganda at Mama Jane (a charity for orphaned children). After a month of building computers and teaching these children how to use them I learned that there was a major problem with well over a million Street Children throughout East Africa.

I visited Tanzania and discovered the village of Kigamboni. Here I helped an organisation called Kigamboni Community Centre (KCC) who were educating about 80 drop-out school children (potentially future street children) and organised activities including: acrobatics, computing, dancing, drama, football and singing. KCC were offering education to another 100 children. KCC now have nine Street children in an Outreach situation joining in all these activities. Unfortunately they are back on the streets at night!

My aim for the immediate future is to get four Street Children accommodated together in Kigamboni. Feed them, clothe them, educate them and then, after counselling the children (and their parents), send them home where they belong.
Whilst a little money goes a long way in Tanzania, our aim eventually will be to scale-up operations and help more of Kigamboni’s street children, so we are grateful for any financial support.
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