Headteacher's Welcome

Bethesda Children’s Centre was officially opened in March 2004 with the aim of rehabilitating the children in a family environment and later re-integrate them back to their homes and to the society at large. Bethesda was a short time rehabilitation centre for 10 Boys. Our target group is street boys in the age of 8-14.  The short term rehabilitation and re-integration was not successful therefore we changed to a long term which a child stays in Bethesda until a child completes primary education  level.  When a child is re-integrated back to their home, either directly from the street or after being rehabilitated at our centre we put them in our Follow-up program for regular visits.

We want to make sure that the children are well taken care of and that they will not go back to the street again. When a boy leaves the centre to move home we admit a new street boy. Currently we have 30  children under rehabilitation at Bethesda and many boys have already been re-integrated  back to their families as they attend secondary school/Vocational training. To be in touch with re-integrated boys once a year we invite them to Bethesda home  for what we call Boys` Camp. The program includes: School, Spiritual teachings, Acrobatics, Choir, Farming and Handicraft among other activities