Agape Hope Children’s Centre is an orphanage, hostel, primary and secondary school in the slums of Dagoretti in Nairobi Kenya.
CAREducation has delivered its first pledged support of books for the school via our Kenyan partners Amara Charitable Trust.
These books were funded by the funds raised by the CARE Youth Kilimanjaro 2013 challenge.
Agape Hope Children’s Centre provides a safety, shelter, sustenance and education for neglected, vunerable, and often abused children.
Storage work top benches produced by Agape in their vocational training workshops, these will be sold to other schools to raise funds to run the orphanage. A form of social enterprise.
Amara also provided food sponsored by one of their regular donors in Nairobi
Agape hope center was started in the year 2002 and was registered as a community based organization in the year 2003 (CBO.No.095) and as a societies charities in 2014 (serial No./72085,)( Reg.no.46168) Since its inception, Agape Hope Center has been involved in activities and program that are designed to help orphans and the most vulnerable children in their area of operation. It is located in Waithaka location of Dagoretti division in Dagoretti district at pharmacy stage Mithonge behind Muthamaki shopping center off Kikuyu road.
Agape addresses matters of housing, provision of basic needs, education, guidance and counseling, and a feeding program to orphans and vulnerable children in Waithaka area. Agape are conscious of the alarming increase in cases of child neglect and abuse in the area. These have been linked with high costs of living unemployment, domestic violence leading to high levels of poverty in the area. This has placed the organization in a state of high demand to help these innocent children live a normal live.