The Academy
The Academy is an outreach project aimed at providing a safe space for street-connected children, youth, and women while using art and sports as a means of rehabilitation, to eventually rescue, reintegrate and empower them to a future away from the streets. During the outreach, we engage in several activities such as spiritual nourishment, counseling, life skills, sports, art, and linkage to medical services.
Our Aim
A Safe Space For Rehabilitation
The outreach project has been running since August 2020 and through it, we have been able to reach out to over 400 street-connected individuals with services. During this process, we have successfully reintegrated over 30 children, some of whom have now resumed their studies. Since we reach out to over 200 individuals every week, we have trained and empowered over 70 youth to access skills through life skills, financial literacy training, and business empowerment through
Engagement in an active sport such as football strengthens their relationship and brings about unity amongst the various bases. The active engagement allows us to have conversations and instill discipline in them to steer away from drugs, crime, and violence as we advocate for their well-being, mental health, and peaceful coexistence.
Spiritual Nourishment
Bringing back dignity to humanity – the vision of Homeless of Kisumu implies that dignity needs to be brought back, that we – humanity – have lost it. It also implies that we once had it.
Homeless of Kisumu’s vision is a vision of faith. Faith that dignity can and will be restored to our beloved species.
Our volunteers work in the slums of Kisumu. Along with food and other physical securities, they deliver a sense of the sacred, a sense of worth. They demonstrate that compassion is alive.
It is difficult for people to focus on doctrine while they are living with such hardship. It takes great skill to know how and when to offer spiritual comfort to struggling souls. The homeless of Kisumu serve all regardless of faith, tribe or orientation. Ministers of various faiths frequently work alongside the volunteers and speak with those who are open to hearing.
Many are open.