Riamaina Child Care Center – A place where people come together to help.

RIMAINA church has a strong thirst for God's Word and a community surrounding it with many challenges, including those of orphaned children.

RIAMAINA CHURCH

RIMAINA Church has an intense hunger for God’s Word, and a community that is surrounded by many challenges, including those of orphans.

To address the challenge of orphans, RIMAINA Church established the MESSIAH FOR KENYA Orphanage in 2008. This organization has two schemes for taking care of orphans:

Our organization has two schemes for taking care of orphans:

1. The Caretaker Mode, in which an orphan is attached to a church member or well-wisher and integrated into their family

2. Enrolling and taking up orphans into the project home, which is supported by local donors and well-wishers. (Unfortunately, due to the challenge of maintaining social distancing among the kids, this second option was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and we have been forced to only use the first option for now.)

The Problem

– Gucha Sub-County has been greatly affected by the growing number of orphans, as have many other parts of Kenya.
– This has not only had a negative impact on individual families, but on the whole community.
– In response to this challenge, the MESSIAH FOR KENYA Centre Project team has been working towards soliciting support from well-wishers and donors.

The Challenges at Hand

Malnutrition

Malnutrition due to shortage of food for the orphans in the various caretakers' homes
Basic Essentials

Lack of Basic Essentials such as clothing and shoes
Lack of Education

Limited education and educational supply among the enrolled orphans
Housing

Limited residential facilities

OBJECTIVES OF MESSIAH FOR KENYA ORPHANAGE CENTRE

1. To provide social care for the enrolled orphans

2. To improve lives by providing food to the orphans

3. To provide quality education to orphans of school-joining age, and to educate those who never had a chance to join school before

4. To provide security and guidance to vulnerable orphans

5. To promote awareness of killer diseases such as malaria, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS, and how to prevent and avoid them

6. To educate caretakers of HIV/AIDS infected or affected orphans on how to better care for them

7. To help all enrolled orphans heal from traumatic pain caused by the death of their parents and the suffering they have endured

8. To promote guidance to orphan girls about life skills to avoid STDs, premarital sexual relationships, earlier marriages, and earlier pregnancies, as well as the effects of abortion, which could put them at risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS

9. To promote Godly moral ethics and integrity among the enrolled orphans and their caretakers through workshops, seminars, and church sessions

10. To recruit and train staff to help fulfill the vision

11. To contribute to the community by encouraging and promoting environment management through nursery bed management, tree planting, water and soil conservation within the community

12. To address and provide timely solutions to any such communal challenges as hunger, disease outbreak, and many more