My name is Flavian Anyango. I am a sponsored child in Tumaini Watoto center.I like this center for many reasons. The first one is that it is located in a quiet environment fit for learning. The seconds one is it has many books and you are given homework in school and you don’t have the text book you can go and do it at this center. Another thing I like about this center is that on weekend (Saturday) there is porridge that children drink and some bananas that makes the children healthy and active. There are also games that we play that makes us have a lot of fun and makes us love to come here. There are teachers who teaches us and makes us understand more. There are also computers that the teachers teach us how to use them and that makes us be more skilled. That’s why I like this center.

My name is Carl-Johan and I’m currently doing volunteer work here at the KCE center. Why I chose to work for this particular organization is that it has a great reputation and that it’s Sweden based, which suits my Swedish heritage well! Coming from such a developed country as Sweden to Nairobi and Kibera really gives you perspective on life as we know it. Even though the children in Kibera live in extreme poverty and possess almost nothing when it comes to materialism, the gratefulness and joy you experience when you enter the doors to the KCE center is mind blowing. At the center the children can be just what they are, children, and also do what children should be able to do: play games, read, joke around, draw, or just sit down with the staff and discuss whatever is on their mind at the time. I for instance brought a guitar to the center for the children and from the moment I played the first chord the instrument hasn’t been put down, because it has just been passed around the group of kids. Because here the phrase “sharing is caring” actually has a meaning!

Even after I eventually leave this place, I’ll never forget what KCE and the kids of Kibera brought to my life: appreciation of what I have and the meaning of laughter and sharing!

My name is Desmond Morara from Kibera Children Education Centre. I am a sponsored child. I started being sponsored in 2007 when I was in class two and I have finished my primary studies. I am waiting to join secondary school. Being at KCE is’s so fun when you work hard at school. Because at KCE you are being paid for school fees you are given school materials and KCE has opened a centre for both sponsored kids/non sponsored kids. At the centre the staff are kind and polite. Teachers know how to work with us, and another thing that is good in KCE is that there are visitors who come to greet us and teaches us something new that we do not know and it helps us in life. One of the visitors is Carl-Johan who is friendly and he likes playing guitar and teaching computer lessons. Thank you KCE

My home is a single roomed with my mother being the bread winner of the family. Its tough but what I believe is, when the tough gets  going the going gets tough, that’s the word to use. I believe after my education I would identify my career for a bright future. Its so weird that my mum leaves very early in the morning and comes home late at night, I rarely have  time to discuss my matters with my mum whenever an urgency arises. I feel lonely most of the time, unlike most of families that shares their views together. With the help of my teachers at Tumaini and the Girls group discussion, makes me relieve when we share our problems and a solution is found.

Everyday when I wake up, I always think of the garden in KCE Centre, it was such a wonderful idea after our discussion that we needed to dig, and plant as well. At 4.30pm when the bell rings, I always pack my bag to rush to the centre, where my first stop is always the backyard where the garden is. It is my duty to make sure that the plants are watered daily and weeds removed from time to time. We have a co operative team where some of the boys do take care of the flowers.

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In the garden we have sukuma wiki and spinach plantation and they are doing well, we have made several harvests and sold them to buy more seeds. This is also a way of practicing Agriculture.

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Our boy group team has 10 strong members, we wish to have a bigger garden in future so that we can plant more plants.