by Nicole Peck | Apr 8, 2019 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
Earning $5 a day might not seem like a lot to us, but for George, it’s enough to radically change his life. His father left the family years ago and his troubled mother couldn’t care for him, so George left home and decided that street life was a better option. It’s...
by Nicole Peck | Sep 11, 2018 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
Who would have thought a ball and net would rally Bungoma’s youth and give them a vision for their future? Bungoma’s street boys spend their days searching for food and just ‘surviving’, which means there’s no time to play games or enjoy life. But our partner,...
by Nicole Peck | Jun 19, 2018 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
When I first met Steven*, he was sitting on the railway tracks, wearing a pink puffer vest. He instantly jumped up the moment he saw me leaning out the window with my phone. He rushed up to the car waving a piece of paper at me. It was a grubby little brown envelope...
by Nicole Peck | May 30, 2018 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
There are many reasons these boys in Bungoma find themselves living on the streets… and it often takes a pretty awful situation at home for them to choose the tough street life. One such situation is caused by a cultural phenomenon called “widow inheritance” where if...
by Nicole Peck | May 30, 2018 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
Before DIAS Director, Rod, left for Africa last month, he had a question he wanted answered. And while he was walking the streets of Bungoma in Kenya, it was. His question was this: does helping and feeding street boys actually make them want to stay on the streets?...
by Nicole Peck | Feb 26, 2018 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
When Joseph arrived in Bungoma, he didn’t know what he was doing there. His wife was a teacher who was posted to Bungoma, so they moved for her work. But Joseph had no plans. But then he remembered a dream he had many years ago. “In 2002, I had a dream. In this dream,...
