It’s the April school holidays and the streets of Mathare are filled with children playing. These children are here for a holiday camp run by Tushinde, a Mathare NGO working closely with 86 families. Programme manager Anne Gathoni, trained in social work, explains that Tushinde started the camp “to keep the children together and also improve on their performance in school”. Today she can go wash clothes in town, tomorrow she can sell cabbages.” About the holiday camp, he says, “If there was no camp, now I could just be playing outside. “The Tushinde office in Mathare is on the Outer Ring Road, and then it is a 30min walk to the holiday and library site,” he added.

Source: The Star April 17, 2018 21:11 UTC