Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

Follow-up kenya • Glad’s House
19/03/2018 • 23/03/2018
Sander Degeling
Glad’s House
Mombasa / Kenya
Since July 2016, our local partner Glad’s House
is doing educational interventions with the
mobile school in the Kenyan coastal city of
Mombasa. The organisation focuses on different
locations in the city to reach street-connected
youngsters: the city centre around Makadara
and Maboxini, the dumpsite Kibarani and
the Remand Home in Likoni were a lot of the
street-connected children are referred to if they
are rounded up by the police. Police violence
is still a very big issue on the Kenyan streets.
By using the mobile school, the organisation
wants to strengthen their relationship of trust
with the target group and aims to offer educational
opportunities to a target group that has
limited or no access to any kind of education.
During the follow-up expedition, our trainers
gave some coaching workshops to discuss the
successes and challenges the local team faces
on the streets. Since the training was combined
with the implementation of the new
mobile school in Kitale, the team also received
some new panels which were trained and tested
immediately on the streets of Mombasa.
Despite some financial challenges, the organisation
is still extremely motivated to reach out
to street-connected children with the mobile
school.
The core team of the mobile school was already
in place during the exploration back in 2015,
which creates a great continuity within the project.
In the past, they have shown they are also
great ambassadors for Mobile School by spreading
the word through the StreetInvest network.
IMPACT
9 staff trained
Counseling skills of street educators improved
Creativity enhanced by creating new activities
Introduction of the Mobile School Playground
Extra motivation for coordinator through co-facilitation
Purchase procedure of van finalised
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