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Kawangware Street Children & Youth Project

Kawangware, in the western outskirts of Nairobi, is one of that towns large high density estates with an estimated 300,000 population of which 65% are children and youth. Kawangware has grown haphazardly without any evidence of planned development and now has a chaotic infrastructure with overpopulated schools, no social amenities, high unemployment and most families living in abject poverty.

Kawangware Street Children Foundation

As in other urban slum areas family breakdown is rife and exacerbated by the impact of HIV/AIDS. Community morale and self-esteem is low. Children and young people opt for the streets in search of basic human needs and the hope of a better life. Young boys are at great risk of violence or being drawn into crime. Young girls may be exploited as servants or forced into prostitution.

Kawangware Street Children and Youth Project was founded in 2002 by Morris Auka and Augusto Githaiga to open up and create opportunities in life for these street children and youth at risk in Kawangware.

Morris and Augusto have many years of experience working with young people in this area and through this project are bringing hope and education into young peoples lives.

Kawangware and Tiny Teas

Tiny Teas packaging and shopping bags are made in three small rooms in the heart of Kawangware which act as a workshop and a coordination centre for project activities.

The workshop currently employs about 10 girls and 30 boys, many of whom are former street children, to produce these handcrafted paper bags, and pouches from recycled paper. The project also employs 15 single women from the community, who are mostly widows and the only wage earners in the family, to make and supply hand-made banana fibre handles for the shopping bags.

The proceeds from these sales provide an income to those involved in the production process and also fund the other project activities which include:
  • Basic reading, arithmetic and family life skills for street children.
  • Identification of children at risk by street & home/family visits & support to discourage them from that lifestyle.
  • Support of a local community Primary School by supplying learning materials and sponsoring a teacher's salary.
  • Practical assistance and moral support to school going children in the community.
  • Soccer team which competes locally.
  • A successful traditional dance team of young boys and girls who get hired to entertain people in, for example, wedding ceremonies.
  • Other sporting and entertainment activities, such as the Children's Club at weekends and school holidays.

Tiny Teas aims to assist Kawangware put a comprehensive and sustainable community structure in place that offers street children and youth in Kawangware an alternative to street life that enables them to integrate back into mainstream society.

You and Kawangware

If you think you can support or assist with:
  • marketing their products
  • sponsorship of activities
  • purchase of equipment (eg. toilets)
  • purchase of materials (basic necessities)
  • workshop expansion
Please contact us at Tiny Teas and we will be more their happy to help you get in touch with the project and the organisers.



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