Kenya - The Wema Centre 2011 (19 images)

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  • At Mbaraki base in central Mombassa young boys high on glue sing and dance after lunch provided by the Wema centre.

  • At Mbaraki base in central Mombassa the Wema centre provide a hot meal once a week to the street children. Most of them are male aged between 7 and 30 years old. Most of them sniff glue, hidden in bottles down their t-shirts. Staff from the Wema centre wash their hands and hand out bowls of rice and beans.

  • The Mbaraki base gang leaders in central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city.

  • One of the street gang leaders sings a song to the gang at Mbaraki base in central Mombassa. Most of the children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women.

  • The Wema Centre, Mombassa, Kenya. Wema provide a rehabilitation program for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty. Emotional support and education enables the children reintegration back into society.

  • Mary who is 6 and a half lives at the Wema centre for girls. She was rescued from the streets and now attends school and has a safe and secure life. Her sister Evelyn also came to the centre.

  • Beatrice Sidi arrived at Wema from the streets when she was 8 years old. After gaining an education she now teaches class K2 (age 4 yrs). She is married and has a 9-month old baby.

  • A child from K3 works out a math question on the blackboard. Children attend the kindergarten school to learn a variety of subjects during lessons at the Wema Centre, Mombassa, Kenya.

  • Children that attend the kindergarten school receive porridge at break time between lessons at the Wema Centre, Mombassa, Kenya.

  • Children (K3, 5 - 6 years old) that attend the kindergarten school learn computer skills during lessons at the Wema Centre, Mombassa, Kenya.

  • The Wema centre facilitates health clinics organised by the local government hospital. There are weekly health care sessions including a VCT clinic. Arnold Maitha Baya the VCT counsellor tests a woman and her 3 daughters for HIV. The twins aged 5 and eldest daughter age 7 were all given a clear result. The mother found out she was positive.

  • Wema have encouraged and facilitated an after school choir group that is organised and run by the older girls who live at the centre.

  • Wema have encouraged and facilitated the young boys that attend the centre to take up acrobatics. A useful skill they can use in the future to entertain the tourists that go Mombassa on holiday.

  • Wema have encouraged and facilitated the young boys that attend the centre to take up acrobatics. A useful skill they can use in the future to entertain the tourists that go Mombassa on holiday.

  • At the Wema Centre for boys in Mombassa Gilbert sits on his bunk in the shared dormitory. Gilbert used to live at dumpsite collecting waste He has been at the Wema centre for 1 year.

  • Alex a casual labourer is a caretaker of the land he lives on with his family. All four of them live this house surrounded by the maize he grows. Alex's daughter Gift (front), was recently rushed to hospital by Wema suffering from malaria and typhoid

  • Scouts practice their routine in the grounds of Mari Mani primary school. The Wema Centre has supplied the scouts with all their uniforms, socks and shoes.

  • Saumu from Mari Mani primary school has a solar light supplied by Wema in her house, that she uses it to study.

  • Close to the Mari Mani primary school is one of the main dumpsites for waste from Mombassa town. Many children can be found at the dumpsite collecting metals and plastic.

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