St. Vincent Maisha Bora is a non-profitable,non-political community centre located near the slums of Kuwinda Kibera District Lang’ata constituency.The centre is run on the Catholic principle and following the virtues practiced by St. Francis of Assisi and St.Vincent De Paul.We totally abandon ourselves into Divine Providence in the spirituality of St. Vincent De Paul who was born in poverty and grew up loving the poor thus became a popular friend of the poor in France.This Centre relies on well wishers and farming activities for its up keep and running costs.
St. Vincent Maisha Bora Centre seeks to improve the physical and psychological health and develop the social economic status of the orphans and vulnerable children. We consider this centre as the preferred cultural medium of providing identified orphans and vulnerable children with shelter, food, clothing, education, health care and counseling them to empower them to experience a family atmosphere where they are loved unconditionally by providing basic care, protection and education for the orphans who are vulnerable by ensuring them a homely environment where all feels accepted and cared for, by promoting positive thinking through counseling services, loving them unconditionally to help them find true love and friendship with God, by empowering these children through education in order for them to become self reliant, independent and responsible citizens of their country by; encouraging these children to learn and accept their situation of life to know that they are good, they are capable and that they will make it in life given chance to embark in academic issues as a means of preparing them to become self reliant in their future lives.
Most of them when their parents died they took refuge with their relatives who turned them to be their house helps and house wives and boys.
Those who wished to go to school they were never given any chance or opportunity nor were they provided with school fees. They were terribly beaten and threatened to be killed in case they said to anybody what goes on in their lives.
Once every Month Sr. Mary Jane and the management committee meets at the Centre to discuss issues concerning and affecting the children to find the best ways of helping them. This has really helped the Centre to grow and the children have developed and have accepted themselves and have surrendered the past to the infinite mercy of God, the future to His good providence and have embraced the present wholly to His love by being faithful to His grace, knowing that they are good, they are capable and that they will make it in life like any other child in the society.
The centre houses young boys and girls aged mainly between 6 – 22 years of age. They are drawn from the poorest backgrounds and most have no homes or live in broken homes with usually one parent or none or with a guardian. The direct beneficiaries of the project numbers 64 young girls and boys
Direct Beneficiaries
The project directly assists over 64 young boys and girls to acquire and practice skills that will assist them in future earn a living. Among the first ones many are in Universities, middle colleges,high school, primary and nursery.
Indirect Beneficiaries
The immediate indirect beneficiaries will be any families that the beneficiaries may have. The wider community will also benefit as the chances of having juvenile delinquents reduces along with incidents of crime.
Core activity of the centre is education and rehabilitation of the needy youth and children
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