The number of children growing up in urban poverty is increasing every year. Children and young people living in slums are more likely to drop out of school, experience violence, abuse and exploitation, and child marriage or teenage pregnancy – all of which threaten their well-being and positive development.
Kidasha works with children and families in slums to improve their social and economic situations, to access government services and enable children to go to school. Our trained outreach workers provide individual and family counselling and set up peer support groups to improve parenting knowledge and skills.
We support teenagers to develop knowledge and skills to protect themselves from risk and harmful behaviours. In particular, we’ve developed a targeted Life Skills course which we deliver through local government schools to over 1,000 teenagers each year.