Child safety and safety prevention for children is still a very neglected and uncovered topic for Kenyan’s children. Trafficking, children that disappear – the number of missed children is high. Many of them are not even registered officially. In case of missing a child it is nearly impossible to find any trace… With a new program that we run together with the organization “Missing Child Kenya“ and the county police department we now want to raise more safety awareness.

Maryana Munyendo is a known advocate for this topic in Kenya. Some months ago she has organized an awareness walk, with Simba, the lion , in Nairobi. She has published several children books to raise more safety awareness for children and parents.

The idea to collaborate was born only three weeks ago when I met Maryana Munyendo beginning of November 2023 in Kenya and we had some discussions and idea exchange with the county police. Quickly, we all realized that we could collaborate to achieve a big impact.

There is not time to loose.

Too many children disappear every day. That’s why our pilot program will still start in December this year! In the pilot phase we plan six sessions in our Making More Health Centers in Bungoma county and Uasin Gishu County and the Making More Health school close to be Webuye. And Simba, the lion who teaches about safety rules, will not be missing. That’s for sure!

Listen to the video with our partner Maryana Munyendo and learn what she does and how our collaboration project will look:

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