Safe Housing
In 2014, Neema Girls Project started with 5 girls meeting in a small house.
Now, 15 girls live at the Neema Girls Project 3-bedroom “safe house” full-time, and there are close to 100 young women in the program.
The Purpose of the Safe-House
For many reasons, many women in Kenya live in dysfunctional homes. These women arrive at our home carrying past trauma. Neema Girls Project serves as a haven for them. The full-time volunteers and our founder, Grace, become their true family.
How the Safe House Works
For a young woman to live at our home, we must receive a write-up from the local village chief that the woman is from. We also receive information about the young women from her school, Church, or family. Often, a female wants to move into our home due to violence at home or other various domestic issues. The young women living in our house are able to go to school due to donors who cover all of their school fees!
They also attend a local Kenyan Church on Sundays and have access to mentors to help them work through their difficult pasts and become the best versions of themselves that they can be! They are also involved in many after-school activities such as art classes, cooking classes, soccer, and more.
Why a Bigger Facility is Needed
Neema Girls Project is experiencing more young women seeking safe housing, education, and discipleship.
Our current facility is reaching its capacity. Girls share a room based on grade. We currently have 1 room with 3 girls, 1 with 5 girls, and 1 with 9 girls. There are 2 bathrooms in the home- 1 inside and 1 outside. Building a bigger facility allows for more space, ensuring a better living and learning environment for young women.
A larger facility would provide the necessary space for additional classrooms, dorm rooms, recreational areas, office and kitchen space, and other amenities to support these programs.
Overall, building a bigger facility would enable Neema Girls Project to better fulfill its mission of providing safe housing, education, and discipleship to young women in Kenya, while also ensuring scalability, sustainability, and improved quality of services.
We are excited to share with you our renderings for the facility we are in the process of building! This facility will allow us to reach more young women in Kenya and expand our capacity.
