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    Our Working Strategy

    The 4Rs Model

    R1

    Relate

    R2

    Rescue

    R3

    Reunite

    R4

    Restore

    Rescuing a child from the life on the streets is a complex task, one that involves detailed planning and good working strategy to ensure we succeed in taking that child back to his\her family. Tumaini Kwa Watoto (TKW) and its partners have uniquely positioned themselves to help rescue children from the streets. We rescue children from the streets and address the issues revolving around them, allowing children to settle in peaceful habitations, in the comfort of their homes and continuation of family life and education. We take preventative measures to ensure that the children stay at home where they belong. 
    Tumaini Kwa Watoto has a 4Rs Operating Strategy that focuses on the process of rescue and reintegration of children from the streets, rehabilitation Centers and children’s homes to their families. 

    1. Relate

    Perhaps the most important aspect of the work is to establish real and meaningful relationships with the children on the streets. To achieve that, our Outreach Team seeks to build rapport with the children with the aim of rescuing them, and reuniting them with their families. Our Team goes to the streets where the children congregate. This is where they sleep, where they eat, where they live. Often the living conditions are beyond acceptable and even dangerous. Our Team visits those sites on a weekly basis. That’s why our social workers are well-known and accepted because the children know them and trust them. The aim of each visit is to either initiate new relationships or reaffirm existing ones. 

    2. Rescue

    Once the outreach team has built
    rapport with the children living on the streets, following an agreed process, the child is removed from the streets and taken to a Government Rehabilitation Centre or     directly to their own family.
    The process of rescuing a child is not a simple one. We work together with governmental agencies and in accordance with all the laws and regulations to ensure everything is done the right way and with the child’s best interest in mind. Every case is well documented and filed, investigated and communications reports are catalogued and sorted to give our social workers access to up-to-date information.

    3. Reunite

    Our social workers sit with the children and listen to their stories and accounts of the events that have led them to life on the streets. We ask questions and try to gather enough information that would allow us to further investigate each case and discover how much of the story is true and eventually trace back and find the family or relatives of the child. We then try to connect to the parents or relatives of the child and initiate the process of rescuing the child and returning him/her home.
    Kenya Children of Hope-Steve from TKW twith a rescued child

    4. Restore

    The reintegration, restoration and transformation of the child is a long process which must involve the family as well.

    Most of the children come from broken homes and dysfunctional families. Various factors and reasons have played a decisive role in the life of the children to make them choose the streets as an alternative. Often those reasons include parents with alcohol or drug addictions, domestic abuse, poverty. etc. This is why in the process of reintegration we put a great emphasis on restoring and transforming the family as well. We have a holistic approach assessing the economic, social, cultural and spiritual state of the family and 
    we put together a comprehensive plan of action that will allow us in time to empower and enable the family to make the necessary changes to improve the quality of life and relationships with the child. We organise and provide programs (EPCP) that help the families and equips the parents to better understand and deal with the challenges of parenthood and economic, social and financial challenges, as well as, addiction challenges. We also work to provide help with school tuition and fees for children in High-school and College education. We seek partners to provide the resources that will create a future for our children. 
    Successful Strategy Requires

    FOLLOW UP

    We measure the success of our programs not only by the number of children we have safely returned home but also by the progress they make with their reintegration in the family and community, their school progress, their health and wellbeing. We follow closely the short term and long term transformation of each child.
    We call this process Follow Up.

    This is the term used to refer to a range of activities for children and their families as well as for any care-giver to facilitate the restoration. The activities may include social and economic support. When conducting follow up, we look out for the interest of the child; assessing the child’s full situation which includes but not limited to:

    After a successful reunification and restoration, the follow-up of the child’s situation and his/her needs continues. After an agreed period of follow- up and assessment, based on the social worker judgments of the child’s wellbeing, the case is closed.
    We partner with the local government, churches, school boards and the community in general to keep the children in school. It costs us Ksh 30,000 (£250) to rescue one child from the streets as well as make four family follow up visits. Our success rate is very encouraging – for every 100 rescued from the street, 96 will remain at home, join school or take vocational training and some who fall back eventually return home.

    After children are reunited with families, we follow up through family visits to ensure regular attendance in school and that they are receiving parental care. Some parents need training on parental skills, economic empowerment to redress the issues in their family.

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