Most families survive on less than one dollar per day. This has resulted in many children missing or skipping school due to hunger or engaging in child labor as the only means available to them to help their families earn a livelihood. A school feeding program is the first step toward ensuring that affected children stay in school. The Roskern Foundation hopes to enroll 600 children in this program. In addition, the Roskern Foundation will continue its existing church feeding program which serves 300 youth as well as 100 elderly citizens in the slum.

Children support activities to improve the lives of poor children through sponsorships will be established to assist 300 children. Support to the local community in this regard will be through the distribution of stipends ($50 each month) to the families of the selected neediest children.

As a result of the AIDS virus, there is a very large number of orphans living in the slum. Many of them become homeless when their caregivers die. To address this problem 13 and to give these homeless/orphaned children hope in life, the Roskern Foundation will establish a foster care 14 program for homeless/orphaned children, a kinship program for homeless/orphaned children and a transitional home for homeless/orphaned children. The Roskern Foundation will also collaborate with other foster care programs run by churches in Nairobi. The number of children that will be targeted for these programs is 190.

In order to achieve the objectives of the project, it is desirable that the Foundation be able to acquire land near the slum. The cost of land near the slum is lower compared to other parts of the city. Land will not be acquired in the slum because we need to have access to running water, electricity and better security. The Roskern Foundation plans to acquire 1 acre of property and eventually construct a multi-story Mission and Community Center, a soccer field and basketball and volleyball courts.

The Foundation plans to initially lease and then construct a Mission and Community Center for the youth and the poor families living in and around Kiambiu. This will enable the Roskern Foundation to expand and improve on the educational programs already existing in the slum. The Center will constitute a meeting point for the youth and will be a center of new activities and opportunities. The Center will be comprised of a multipurpose hall, classrooms, a library, two offices and restrooms. The Center will accommodate the literacy school for adults, a course of ICT (Information Communication Technologies), recreational activities, a cinema and the didactic movies projection which will target 1,500 people. The Mission and Community Center will be used to improve the management of the local Non- Governmental Organizations’ (NGO’s) partners and thus increase their levels of sustainability. The main activities of the Center are a literacy school for the children and professional training for the youth and women. However, the Center will also host activities for the entire community such as: a shop for selling handcrafts, training for local partner organization staff members, awareness meetings and free movies. The specific planned activities are:

In order to be engaged in trading activities in the Center (business and recreation), the youth need start-up capital. To this end, revolving funds should be given to those who are interested that will be collected back. The beneficiaries are those who are going to trade in the shops, work in the cafeteria, run the sports center, manage the information center or run the cinema. The repaid money will be given again to others who didn’t receive the credit.

The Roskern Foundation’s Board through the Project Manager will oversee the hiring of competent personnel, preferably from among the Christian faithful of Kiambiu Baptist Church who have the passion to help the disadvantaged in society and share the Roskern Foundation’s vision..