SANCHAT The Sanata Charitable Trust
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Restart Centre
Sanata Restart Centre is a haven for about 70 less fortunate or abandoned street boys in Gilgil. It is home to boys from 2 to 20 years (although many don't actually know their real age) who have been rescued from a life of crime, drug abuse and begging on the streets.
The centre was started with the aim of addressing the plight of young, idle, illiterate and unemployed boys resident in the Bondeni and Somali Camp areas of Gilgil, places characterised by widespread prostitution, theft, drug trafficking and abuse, and a myriad of anti-social attributes. Often these boys are used as sex tools and conduits for drug peddling. Eight out of every ten boys in Bondeni and Somali Camp have been sexually molested.
Boys playing football
Mary with the boys
Restart teacher with boys
The boys undergo various counselling sessions offered them by two experienced counsellors and go through informal learning sessions imparted by two teachers. The boys are now ready to continue with their schooling. Sanata Restart Centre needs help to create a proper environment for the boys by building a rehabilitation / youth training and resource centre as well as a series of family - unit homes for the boys and to give them a future through education. Further, the centre hopes to accommodate more boys into the programme as well as start up some training and empowerment programmes for the older boys but this is subject to the availability of funds. A similar rehabilitation scheme for the girls is also envisaged.
Volunteer profiles
The Restart Centre can be very benficial to the lives of the volunteers who kindly gieve their own time to help our children. Click on the volunteers below to read their own stories.
