CovenantHome.co.uk
Title
Covenant Home - Christian based childrens home, Kisumu, Kenya
Description
Covenant Home is a Christian based childrens home caring for approximately 178 children from deprived backgrounds. Many have come from the streets, have been abused, abandoned, or are brought in by relatives unable to care for the children properly; but at Covenant they have found a loving home atmosphere, a place to heal from the past, and an opportunity to gain a fresh start in life.
Our aim is to assist and care for needy children, to give them a home, an education, and a future in which they can become responsible people within the community, regardless of their past background.
Pat Botwright, founder and director of Covenant Home, first visited Kenya in 1990 as part of a team from England to visit missionaries based in Kisumu. She left Kenya with a vision to establish a home for street children and orphans. After two more visits, Pat sold her home and moved to Kenya; and in 1993 Covenant Home was founded with 4 orphans and 4 street children moving in with Pat in her small bungalow.
IN a span of the last decade or so we must admit that the organization has, in a way, lost it's objectives unfortunately. It has become a microcommunity of man eat man societal organization. THE innocent young kids have become a source of manipulation by the adults.
