Jukumu Letu

Jukumu Letu means ‘ your own responsibility’  in Swahili.

The Jukumu Letu Center is a daycare for vulnarable children in the Ngong Town slums near Nairobi. For a small amount per day the project provides daycare for the children of working (single) women during workhours. 

At our website products are sold that provide an income to the women of the Ngong Town slums who are the artisans of the products and with the profit of the products the Jukumu Letu project is being supported.

Before the project started, the children were locked in the houses and left alone or were left in the streets during workhours, for there is no effordable alternative daycare available in this area.

At this moment 80 kids are being supported by the daycare daily. They are divided in several groups based on age. The children are able to play outside and the oldest kids get lessons in the two available class rooms. Beside play, education and fun, the children also get a meal a day. For some children this is probably the only meal of the day.

In the daycare center the care is provided by volunteers, the mothers of the children. They take care of the children for one day a month and one day a month they get a training in child behaviour, finance, health and so on. In this way the project is much more than a daycare center, it is also a proven way of bringing a positive change into a slum community.