Upendo Children's Centre is an orphanage for abused, abandoned and orphaned children ages 7 months through 12 years in Nyeri, Kenya.
Upendo children's Centre was founded on December 2006 by Tessa Janssen and Jackson Wachira who both worked and volunteered in Child Rescue Centre (CRC) in Thika.
Upendo Children's Centre was organized and put in place on January 2007. UCC is catering for children aged between 7 months and 12 years of age, who are desperately in need of parental care. Most of these children are orphans, others neglected, abused or abandoned by their parents and family members. UCC is offering a shelter, food, clothing, education, health care, guidance, counseling and above all Upendo, Love! It also offers guidance and counseling to the parents and relatives and guardians of these children. We keep in good contact with their families.
We also wish to do some rescuing mission, visiting and feeding street families and street children and besides this do field work in the surrounding slums and villages.
Currently UCC is being run by a dedicated team of social workers and teachers being:
- 1. a managing director
- 2. a general director
- 3. a house mother
- 4. a house nurse
- 5. a team of board members
UCC wishes to co-operate and network with the Children's Office (Nyeri), police station (Nyeri) and the Social work Department of Nyeri District. Also included is the Nyeri Provincial General Hospital, other Children.s homes and the society and church around UCC.
We believe our charity work shall make these children responsible and able to positively face the future ahead of them.
You can make a difference in two ways, you can either sponsor or go there and volunteer
