Life Skills Oasis (LSO) provides holistic services to street children and mothers of children with disabilities in Kiandutu slum, near Thika. LSO aims to empower these children and their families – emotionally, physically and economically – so that they can support themselves.
We are supporting LSO to establish a training centre for street children and the mothers of children with disabilities. They will be trained in their choice of hairdressing/ barbering, tailoring or knitting and will also receive life skills training. By gaining these valuable skills, trainees will be able to generate an income through self-employment, which the mothers will be able to fit around providing for their children’s specific needs. The ultimate aims is that trainees will be able to generate sufficient income to remove themselves, and their children, from the vicious poverty cycle in which they have become trapped.
